Jaime Camil, Mexican actor, comedian, singer and producer (Source: Portal/Steve Marcus).
If the businessman Jaime Camil Garza, Father of actors Jaime Camil and Issabela Camil died, they did not hesitate to recognize him as a man who taught them respect for all people, for work, for punctuality, for showing up on time, for good things, for trying to be excellent, “a complete bastard” right, with a titanic and unstoppable personality and unparalleled bravery.
And Camil Garza was one of Mexico’s richest businessmen, he had strong contacts in the world of consulting, politics and entertainment, and he often shared details of the lavish parties he threw with his son Jaime, as well as bragging about his possessions. Yachts and horses to jet-setting magazines.
But behind this overwhelming personality was the businessman He was a very strict father, at least towards his eldest son, so much so that he sometimes even physically reprimanded him. In addition, the divorce with his first wife, Cecilia Saldanha da Gama, Jaime’s mother, and the small cohabitation in his early years, made it difficult for them to build a loving relationship“I was my father’s experiment (…), there were many things from my childhood that I had never been exposed to, and one of them was my father.”
The actor from “The Most Beautiful Ugly” and “Jane the Virgin” has dared to talk about this side of his late father because, as he says, thanks to therapy he was able to reconcile with him and not to repeat the same pattern.” Like dad: “Either you learn from your parents’ mistakes and improve them, or you go the same way (…) and I have a lot of fun with my dad’s friends.”
Jaime doesn’t want to vent again, Pati Chapoy simply knows how to ask the key questions so that he is the one who reveals the less sociable side of the businessman, like when he physically punished him for giving free rein to his creativity let.
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“I remember a moment when my mother took me bathing and took off my clothes. I had marks from belts all over my body. (This happened because) there was a very nice white carpet in her (my father’s) apartment and I thought it was a brilliant idea to play with my strollers and draw a street with a felt-tip pen all over the white carpet and that is not something you should do (…). It was abolished (educating with belts) when I grew up. I think: “Because I had my brother Jorge and my sister Alexia, I realized that this is not the right way,” he told the owner of Ventaneando.
Further disagreements arose when Camil decided to listen to his instincts and dedicate himself to art, like his mother, a visual artist, bossa nova singer and Brazilian writer, who dabbled in various techniques such as naivism, impressionism, constructivism and Neo employed -figuratively. , acrylic on fabric and others.
However, the singer also admits that his decision to pursue entertainment was also to receive the same attention that his father gave to prominent show business figures: “I think that’s why I stuck with it so much , to be successful.” The race may have been due to daddy issues.
“My father always had a deep admiration for artists. (…) I saw my father going out of his way when Oprah Winfrey, Kevin Costner, Quincy Jones arrived… when those people arrived at the house in Acapulco, My father, I have the house out the window thrown and acted as if God had come into the house. My father was the king of public relations. (I didn’t decide to become an artist) like, “Oh, that will make my father look.” “At me again,” that wasn’t in that plan, but it was an important element that also encouraged me to to continue the race,” he said.
Before his death, Jaime Camil Garza also spoke about the relationship he had with his son, which was difficult due to the actor’s busy work schedule, although in his opinion it belonged to both of them, as he told Adela Micha in 2020.
“My father should come to me more often. It hurts me a little that he doesn’t come to us, I have a fantasy that he comes, that he stays at home with us, that he lives with his grandchildren, that he is with us and not with everything. “This entourage that follows him everywhere,” he said.
The businessman spent the last years of his life in Acapulco and had a very special relationship with his granddaughters Victoria and Antonia Mayer, daughters of Sergio Mayer and Issabela Camil.
Jaime Camil Garza died in early December 2020 as a result of catastrophic sepsis.