Two former students of the Juan Codina Studio in Madrid have assured the diary The Country that the founder, Juan Antonio Codina, an actor who won a Max award in 2013 and another from the Union of Actors and Actresses in 2019, took advantage of his position to attack them during the end-of-year parties of their promotions.
On the one hand, Miranda Yorch24, told the Madrid newspaper that in June 2019, when she was 19, Codina (32 years older) locked her in one of the center’s bathrooms and sexually assaulted her: “I was penetrated by him in various ways and without a condom“.
On the other hand, BS, a 21-year-old boy, describes an episode in June 2022 in which the interpreter pounced on him in front of the rest of the students in his class: “He grabbed me and put his tongue in my mouth“The two students did not meet until this summer. Yorch assured The Country who is receiving legal advice to denounce the actor.
El País has spoken with six former students and all of them describe a center where Codina practiced “power omnipotent with the complicity of the teaching staff”.
The school, after being accused of rape by Yorch, announced the “permanent” suspension by Codina in any of its areas within the entity.
“Following the information that has appeared in recent days, the management team is taking measures and analyzing the situation. The first change, of an internal nature, will be the permanent suspension of Juan Antonio Codina in any of his areas within the structure and ceasing his activity as a teacher immediately“said the theater school on its Instagram profile, in a message collected by Europa Press in which it shows its “support” for the victims. “We are here to listen to you, heal, repair and help,” the entity emphasizes.
“Incessant trembling”
Last Saturday, November 2, Yorch, known for participating in Hit either Exhaustclaimed in a publication on her Instagram that she had been raped by the principal of the school he had attendedwhen she was 19 years old and he was 51 years old. She studied dramatic art at the Juan Codina Studio between 1018 and 2022.
The actress describes the moment as “an incessant tremor that emerges from the depths” and that leads her to remember the moment she was raped. “A tremor that takes me back to all the subsequent moments when I was close to my rapistwho was a figure of power, in a space that he considered safe. And you make yourself believe that it was with consent,” he writes.
Yorch remembers that the rape occurred in a “tiny” bathroom at the school and that her attacker offered her cocaine. An event that came face to face with violence “and impunityignorance, silence and normalization of what happened” even by herself.
“Hoping that what happened was not what really happened,” he points out. “Even though your body warns you, and vomits and you retch, even though you sink into a bed, and apathy emerges. Even though your entire system crashes and warns you that something is wrongthat that is no longer your place and it is not a safe place,” he says, before confessing that he tried to “reconcile” with all that.
Yorch assures that he did not want to keep quiet and silence that tremor. “The most absolute truths are revealed to me: I am not alone, I have no reason to remain silent or be afraid or ashamed. I can tell this and not feel guilty. “I am sure that the man in question will have his own account of what happened, but I am also sure that he does not tremble,” she remarked.
In this sense, he criticized that His attacker “bragged about it” on stage and “whitewashed” what happened before a public “that was unaware of the reality of the facts.” “It may be time for you to start trembling, if you have an ounce of humanity left. Because trembling no longer silences me, rather it is the driving force that drives me to speak.”
For its part, the Juan Codina Studio requested sorry for the late communicationbut they specified that the “gravity” of the situation “invites reflection on each step and none can be false.”
“The measures and reforms have the objective of guaranteeing the current academic structure and that it is free of any interference, regardless of its nature,” said the theater school.
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