Laly Goyzueta: “We are a society that seems to have started in 1821” | The last bastion | Netflix | Bicentennial of Peru | CULTURE

Úrsula Goyzueta says she has never been a haute couture model. “I was a casual model, I modeled it in Saga, Carolina, in Triki Trak,” she details. She went to a casting and there were two models named Úrsula. One had to be renamed. Someone proposed to Laly. The other Ursula didn’t want to. She raised her hand and told me. Since then, Úrsula Goyzueta has been Laly Goyzueta. And today she is one of the protagonists The last bastion, produced by TV Peru and which is already in Netflix with great success. The series about the moments before the independence of Peru.

Laly Goyzueta says the wrinkles show how much you laughed. I ask him if he laughed a lot. He replies that he cried, but today he laughs more. She is 52 years old, although she is still smiling. Maybe 30. “It makes me laugh that people insult me ​​as ‘old’.” I don’t have to do 80 surgeries to do them at will “, he emphasizes. “I am old then, but here I am and I continue in my struggle, I continue to learn. I feel like an eternal student of life “, says the first student at the faculty and the fifth superior at the faculty.

You had to tell a story about the princesses in the nest. There was no casting, it was hitchhiking. They put Úrsula Goyzueta on her face like a flower. He wondered why it was his turn to be a flower. It was also a tree. “It was traumatic for me to be a flower,” she recalls, but she laughs. Since then, capable without intention, he has sought his voice and confesses that “not many years ago” he found it. It no longer feels like a flower or a tree, now it is the sun that illuminates, the landscape in all its splendor.

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– In what spirit do you get to the Bicentennial?

When we finished filming The Last Bastion, they asked us a question: What did you learn from The Last Bastion? I learned quite a few things that I didn’t learn in school. History books don’t tell you that, they don’t include people of African descent. But what I learned the most was that I haven’t changed anything in 200 years.

-What are we still the same?

We are a society that seems to have started in 1821, with so many prejudices, with a political class that cares only for its interests, a fragmented society, each going its own way, there is no concept of homeland. The construction of the last bastion was a turning point in the way I see Peru and history.

-So, you arrive at the Bicentennial discouraged, taught?

Do not give up. May this make us open our eyes and ask ourselves what we want. It is a starting point for us to reformulate the concept of country. In our hands, things are working now. We must make our homeland. For 200 years we have been waiting to see who saves Peru, when it is in the hands of the citizens to forge a country.

-Do you feel that you are the best as an actress?

I think there will never be a better time. But I can’t deny that attending The Last Bastion and the international repercussions that Netflix has brought have helped people see my work. For many years I did not appreciate myself as an actress. I shouldn’t say that (laughs), but I’m telling you I don’t know why. I love my job, I love it, but … I don’t know how to explain it. Like my self-esteem was not so strong. Yes, like that. But you better not put it on (laughs).

-I understand you, Laly. And I will confess: I asked for the interview with you because I feel that there is a prejudice against you; Many of us have probably put you in the place of the pretty girl or the light-hearted actress. But when I saw you inside The last bastion your performance stands out, you have your own light.

I’ll tell you something. When The Last Bastion came out on TV Peru, I wrote to my friends and many of them let me see it. Now that I’m on Netflix, all those people who cheated on me (laughs) tell me I’m a cape. Being on Netflix doesn’t make me a better actress than when it aired on TV Peru. For a long time, there were even people who told me that I was just a pair of legs, a pretty face. They sang “Television Talent” to me (by Willie Colón) and you don’t know, it broke my heart. I think they repeated it to me so much that at one point I believed (it breaks) … It was hard to fight those prejudices. And yes, it was hard for me to believe in myself, because there was always someone telling me “it’s not worth it”, “it’s just calling you because you’re nice”. But I turned 52, I felt proud of who I was.

-And what does the series teach you about the role of women in history?

What I like about The Last Bastion is that the story is told by citizens, women, comedians; not for heroes. That’s how it was lived every day. This is how you see Antonia, who from the daughter of a slave, learned to read and had a voice. As for my character, she was a woman who, above all, loved her family, that love of motherhood that is capable of breaking patterns. Playing Josefa was a challenge, but I faced it out of love.

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-Before the bicentennial, there is an important stop: the elections. In what spirit will you go to the polls?

Hoping we make the best decision. We need to think about what they will want for another 200 years. This choice could be the beginning of something wonderful or continuity. We must not ignore the responsibility of being Peruvian. Wake up, for whom you will vote, choose well, think about it, read government plans, listen to debates, get involved, be an active citizen.

-If you had candidates for leadership, what would you tell them?

Be honest and consistent. He doesn’t sell smoke. That he keeps his promises. It cannot be that there are candidates who do not even know the region for which they are running. I try to be tolerant, but I am intolerant of people who do not respect the rights of others.

-And then what did you learn from the Last Bastion?

One must be the protagonist of his life and the history of his country, we are not the secondary or extra character. You have to stop selfishness. Women are strong, we are pillars. The last bastion empowers me. I still want to see a light at the end of the tunnel.

AUTO:

– “My real name is Úrsula Goyzueta Muente. My name is Laly. When my husband gets upset, he calls me Úrsula (laughs). I am 52 years old and I have a 15 year old son. I would like to go back to university, if I had money, to study Psychology, Literature, everything ”.

– “I was born in Jesús María, Lima. I studied communication at the University of Lima. I have always been a very studious person, second in college and fifth in college. After the Candela group, I went to Mexico and studied at the Televisa Center for Artistic Studies ”.

– “Torbellino came, I did different things, a thousand jobs. I was a mother. I returned with my love wachimán, our history and continued to work. Now I’m on an affair with my husband. It’s called MufFit, we’re at Instagam @ muffit.pe. They are delicious, healthy and nutritious, and we make them with pleasure ”.

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