Maribel Guardia has established herself as one of the most recognized actresses in Mexico, since she has a trajectory of more than 40 years in Mexicowhere he came from Costa Rica in his youth to seek a career in the middle of the national show.
It was then that in those years, after passing through beauty contests in his homeland, when found his first opportunities in the so-called file theater Mexican, a genre that flourished from the mid-1970s and the 1980s, and was directly influenced by Italian erotic comedy and the old rumberas cinema, also a national product.
In the films of the genre, which would have taken their name from Beauties of the night (The files)one of the first tapes of the style, in 1975, entanglements and situation comedy happened often set in nightlife, bars and cabaretsand in them beautiful women, often with little clothing, and their “beauties”, popular comedians like Alfonso Zayas, Rafael Inclan and Horse redwho embodied true donjuanes.
The humor of this type of cinema fell mainly in plots charged with eroticism and in the use of double meanings, or the so-called tricks, phrases with a hidden intention to decipher and that hid veiled sexual messages, often addressed to beautiful actresses, such as Maribel Guardiawho recently confessed that during his time in movies like Male that barks does not bite, cabaret woman, Terror and black lace Y Of all, all, she never understood that, probably, her classmates “were making fun of her”.
It was during the press presentation of the play lagoon my neighborhoodwhere he gives life to the character of “Doña Lancha”, that the actress talked about it. A specific question about whetherIt was difficult to adapt to that very Mexican type of humor, in its beginnings when he arrived from Costa Rica at the age of 18the actress and singer replied: “No because I never knew it existed, I made the movies and said ‘how cute, so loving'”, began.
But it was just a few years ago when, while in the company of her husband, the former beauty queen realized the double meanings in some dialogues of the films in which he participated in the 80s.
“One day while watching a movie with my husband, he tells me ‘how horrible, you just got screwed’, I say ‘who?, such a decent boy’ and he tells me ‘of course not, they told you…’ and I ‘oh, what a liar, what a filthy mind’, and I until ten years ago I began to understand the trick and I said ‘oh, how beautiful the movies are, how white, why would they say that the cinema I don’t know what, that the cinema I don’t know how much’, I never realized, it’s just that the trick is like that, as it has a double meaning … Now I hold it very well, at that time I did not know how to hold itNow now,” he said with a laugh.
Maribel did not escape showing her body in some of the films she made at that time, since it was usual that in said productions scenes were seen on the verge of censorshipbecause while the actors were true masters of trickery, actresses like Sasha Montenegro, Lorena Herrera, Lyn May, Maribel Fernandez the pelangocha and Maribel herself made up “the visual appeal.”
Currently the 63-year-old actress does not talk much about that time, unless they are very general questions, because although she has not declared it frontally, it seems that Maribel would like not to remember her time in the genre that gave her the greatest projection to his career.
