Francesca Guillén while starring in the play Instinto in 2019 (Photo: Medios y Media/Getty Images).
Funerals represent the final meeting between the deceased person and those closest to them, but when an artist dies they become posthumous honors. Sometimes characters you haven’t seen in a long time show up among the mourners and the comment “what have you done to yourself? you’re off the TV” pops out.
just happened Francesca Guellenthe actress who worked continuously at Televisa between 1982 and 2005 in several telenovelas and individual programs (Agujetas de color de rosa, Confidente de secundaria, Rebelde, La telaraña, Mujer, casos de la vida real, etc.), both dramatic and youthful .
Alejandro Camacho’s daughter was approached at the Jorge Negrete Theater where the National Association of Actors (ANDA) fired Ignacio López Tarso. Guillén was there as an assistant to the ANDA statistical secretariat. “I come for work, but with the honor of being here. (López Tarso) was a stage man (…), he was eternal, he was a man without age,” he said of the late actor.
“And when will we see you again?” The reporters, who recognized her, asked her, to which she replied with an unknown. “But you must miss acting terribly, right?” someone else asked her, and the actress responded, somewhat surprised at the lack of knowledge about her career. “I didn’t leave her. What I don’t do is watch TV. Anyway, but that doesn’t matter, we’re in a tribute to a man too great to talk about me. I don’t really care‘ he added, to gently invite the group to refocus on why they had gathered.
The interest of the daughter of Bárbara Guillén and Alejandro Camacho is understandable, away from TV forums for almost two decades (she had a small participation in the program Drunk History Mx in 2015), but it is true that Francesca Guillén has not stopped acting .
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His extensive professional career has featured outstanding short and feature films, dance, storytelling and theatre. His filmography includes Borderland, Dead Mosquita, Third Order, Cañitas, Absent Encounter, Holy Pilgrims, Coyote 13, The Cat Who Came to Dinner, Emma and some more.
But the theater is where he blossomed into acting. He was part of the productions La hora and Juegos profanos y de Infieles with a successful season at Sala Chopin. The Vagina Monologues, Dollhouse, Instinct, Lizard Woman, Ur-Hamlet, La Sibila, De tangos, cronopios y autonautas and several other performances are also part of his career.
And as if that wasn’t enough, he also participated with Leo in the literacy programs that INBA promoted in the country… then I’m and ¿Shall I read it to you again?
Francesca Guillén in 2014. (Photo by Victor Chavez/WireImage)
But going down that path hasn’t boded well for the actress.
In 2021, the actress spoke about the chaos that has ensued, like many others, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In an interview with TVyNovelas magazine, he said that during the days of detention he came to open his refrigerator and there was nothing there because his work “barely gave me enough to meet half of my basic needs (…). I’ve been clinging to being an actress for 15 years because I love the career, I love being on stage, but it hasn’t been worth it in a long time.
After analyzing his options and thanks to a friend’s invitation to be decided Hemp Networkerthat is, dealing with the sale of cannabis products. “It is an attractive and legal business. It’s not marijuana because it doesn’t contain THC, the psychotropic element of cannabis, so it doesn’t cause addiction or harm. Also, in an anti-doping test, no residues would even appear,” explained Guillén in his moment. “I’ve always respected the law very much, I don’t like breaking the rules and nothing was forbidden here, that’s why I entered there.”
Francesca Guillén in 2016. (Photo by Victor Chavez/WireImage)
A respecter of the law and time, Francesca Guillén declined to elaborate on her apparent absence from acting (according to her Instagram account, she filmed a short season of a play last November) or her family. “Forgive me, I can’t talk about it now, it’s a different time and it would be disrespectful to do something like that,” he replied.
And he’s right. It will be time to get back on track.