It’s no secret that there seems to be a war between the Mexican entertainment press and Camila Sodi. Ever since she started, at the age of 18, Thalía’s niece and Diego Luna’s ex-wife have been the subject of a tense relationship with the heart press, which sells her as arrogant and conceited.
The latest fight between the actress and the media took place this week, when at Mexico City International Airport, Sodi was seen on the verge of going on a trip with her children, Jerónimo and Fiona (whom she was looking for). always beware of the spotlight), and his mother, writer Ernestina Sodi Miranda, and almost immediately a wave of service reporters rushed at the family, who were about to begin a trip to New York City.
It can be seen in a video broadcast by various programs that when a journalist tries to get too close to Camila’s mother, she hinders her body and hands; The reporter accuses her of assaulting her and Camila, without losing her temper, asks her not to talk to her like that anymore, to respect her and say goodbye.
This would really be nothing more than routine, except that this is not the first time Camila has been subjected to such a situation or such a hunt. And in this case, the key word is “hunting.” Why is there this constant struggle to get something that Camila Sodi is not willing to offer? What is required of him? What can you give that you haven’t already given?
Born into a family that was in the spotlight in one way or another in the 70s – Laura Zapata, Ernestine’s maternal step-sister, debuted as an actress in that decade; while her own mother, Ernestina, was Miss District Federal in the 1977 Miss Mexico (now Nuestra Belleza) pageant, and of course there is Thalía, whose story is told virtually on her own – it was almost natural for Camila to venture into a certain facet of means, medium.
That’s how she debuted in an 18-year-old soap opera – “Innocent of You,” which was essentially a remake of the popular “Rosa Salvaje” that Verónica Castro made in ’87, just directed and produced in Miami, in a adaptation I thought exactly of Thalía, that she never did it after she completely lost interest in soap operas after “Rosalinda” (which didn’t succeed at all) and her wedding to Tommy Mottola.
The soap operas didn’t catch Camila’s interest either (In fact, he only recently took the action more seriously, despite appearing in numerous films in which he played characters more or less similar to the image he had cultivated in the media: a young, attractive woman with charisma, but strangely insubstantial.
This has changed over time, but Camila has found other projects and other ways of expression that are not necessarily related to acting; She has been a model for several years and has been the face of numerous campaigns for prestigious companies. She was also involved in music as a step-sister (on her father’s side) Tessa Ía, with whom he acted with Luis Gerardo Méndez in “Camino a Marte” in 2017 – his other half-sister, Naian, she was very successful as an actress both in Mexico and in the Anglo-Saxon market.
Perhaps the turning point that led to this fight with the pink press took place in 2007, when a relationship with Diego Luna, who, both as an actor and as an activist, belongs to a different sphere than the usual one of the show and who, without losing simplicity or authenticity, sought to draw a line between his public life and his intimacy, with sufficient success.
When he became known, after filming “El Búfalo de la Noche”, based on the novel by Guillermo Arriaga, that Luna and Sodi “went”, a kind of persecution began, which reached paroxysmal levels when they got married in 2008, shortly before the birth of their first child, Jerónimo, who was born in Los Angeles, where they moved after their wedding, in search of better job opportunities and, tacitly, anonymity they had lost in Mexico City. .
The resentment that some media (especially now) imprints on his relationship with Camila is due, in part, to the fact that she is somehow perceived as alien to the usual figures in the tabloid press: Her intellectual interests (she is not a terribly engaged actress, true, but she comes from a broad culture and diverse interests and which she has shown) and her way of continuing make her be seen as a arrogant person and a stranger to the attitude that many other celebrities have together with the press, which they even court, to draw attention to the fact that they have clearly shown that they no longer need it.
The fact that Camila is also very jealous of the intimacy of the two children with Diego, especially after the divorce by mutual agreement in 2014, it is something that seems to inflame this situation. Both she and Luna were very careful to give Jerónimo and Fiona an ordinary childhood, far from the spotlight, with very few exceptions, such as the Los Angeles premiere of “Rogue One,” the movie in the “Star Wars” saga. . “In which Diego was one of the protagonists and on whose red carpet the four posed in the family.
It would seem unforgivable that, even separated, they have no custody proceedings or parental rights (such as the painful DeSousa-Gil case) or that they do not express intimacy with their children, as other personalities with fame or talent do every other week. higher or lower in different publications.
The latter situation, which has made headlines in which Sodi is attacked and denigrated and accused of assaulting (when clearly what it is doing is to protect itself from an attack as best as possible), may have a cost.
Not that he cares about what is said, in the end, on the other side of the mirror, he is a person who owes nothing to anyone: if he had any debt to the medium, he already paid it many years ago and if he wants to retain her independence and privacy, she is in every right. Certainly, her reputation will worsen in the media that is already targeting her. And if putting it in this perspective there are colleagues who can show me, that doesn’t matter to me, personally. I don’t know Camila Sodi. He owes me absolutely nothing and vice versa.
This profile only aims to show that fame is not necessarily what it seems and that often, as a media, we ask too much of someone who should not give us more than what they do professionally. . This would be a real act of hypocrisy and Camila Sodi may (or may not) be many things, but the hypocrite is not one of them.
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