Itatí Cantoral, known as the “iconic villain” of soap operas made in Mexico, makes her debut in the Disney ‘universe’ giving her voice for the Latin American version of ‘Ming Lee’, the mother of the protagonist of the film ‘Red’. For the Mexican actress it is a dream come true and she declared by Zoom to the Latin media that she identifies with the character and invites families to see the film.
“I am very overprotective and it is not bad, especially when you have a 13-year-old girl, a woman, as if she is in more danger, she is more at risk. I am a mother who is super attached to my children and a perfectionist, so it seems really similar to me, because what you want is that nothing bad happens to your children, to overprotect them because of the great love you have for them. Feminine power, being a feminist begins at home, and if you have confrontations with your mother, surely those are the wounds that we all have left and when you are older they become immense problems, “he said about the film that will be released on 11 March on Disney Plus. In the film, the protagonist, Mei Lee is a teenager with “extraordinary powers”.
“I, in the case of my daughter, make her feel loved and accepted by me, because beyond the film, at 13 years old, in addition to seeking acceptance from the outside, what matters most to her is being accepted by her parents. . That’s why I think it’s a great movie,” added the actress, who promotes a feminist project taking ‘Soraya Montenegro’ as her image, the character she even returned to for the promotion of the award-winning North American series Orange is the new black (2017).
“Thanks to Soraya I have transcended and have reached many parts of the world, Soraya Montenegro is worldwide. Now I have a store called ‘Fashion with a purpose’ (on Instagram), they are t-shirts with memes, jackets, backpacks, mugs and we help women to have their own trade, employment and become independent. Since this character of Soraya empowered me and today I continue to receive work thanks to this character, I wanted to give back to women a little of what the public has given me. So, Soraya now helps Mexican women”, she declared and replied that, far from pigeonholing her as an actress, she feels that the character continues to be important in her career after 25 years of ‘María la del barrio’. In fact, he is currently doing theater in his country, he has just recorded a film in Chile and is preparing a film that would be the remake of a tape made in the 80’s, with which he would share a script with Thalía.
“I think that when the public accepts you, as it has accepted me with Soraya, the only thing you can do is thank. Soraya has not marked my career, she has promoted my career to do very interesting projects like Disney’s ‘Red’. Soraya has opened doors for me; maybe there are characters that close doors for you… but I have had the advantage that he has been an iconic character, but that he has opened doors for me to do others”.