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Four Decades Artistic Trajectory in Theater, Cinema, and Television: Luisa Huertas

Date: (27/10/2009)

Colegio Civil Centro Cultural Universitario

Luisa Huertas´ forty years artistic trajectory in theatre, cinema, and Mexican television, were recognized on October 24th at “Colegio Civil” University Cultural Center, as part of the Nuevo Leon’s Theater Second Colloquium.

Photos by Fernando Estrada Hernandez

By Fernando Estrada Hernandez

With a great sense of humor and a great attitude, actress Luisa Huertas participated in the second Nuevo Leon’s Theater Colloquium, in a conference-homage to her four decades of professional life, on October 24th at “Colegio Civil” University Cultural Center.”

She started her talk by remembering her childhood, which she lived in El Salvador surrounded by his history exams of her father’s students and of books in which she learn, for the first time, about the Greeks and the gods´ whims.

“Since I was eight I communicated my family, I did not ask for permission, I communicated my desire of becoming an actress and I never heard a word against it. I do not know if they though it was a girl’s game, or if it would just go away, of if they said it would be fine if that was God’s will,” she expressed.

Once in Mexico, where she travelled to with her mother at the age of eleven — while she carried out her studies accreditation — she enrolled in a children’s theater workshop in 1963. With this, she started to explore her acting skills and to fulfill her desire of being an actress.

She also talked about her commencements within professional theater in 1969, when she partook for the first time in a play “A Midsummer’s Night Dream,” directed by Jose Sole, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Likewise, she talked about the different plays in which she has participated, as well as the movies she collaborated with. Among these we find: “Blue Eyelids,” “The Legend of Zorro,” “The Crime of Father Amaro,” among others.

Actress Luisa Huertas — daughter of a Mexican mother and Spanish father who took refuge in El Salvador — also expressed what, according to her opinion , is the profile of a real actor:

“When one is an actor, one lives like an actor, eats like an actor, makes love like an actor, and does everything like an actor. What does this mean? That the most important thing, what determines life, is rehearsal time, is show time, one has got to do whatever is required to be done, whether is someone dies or not,” said Huertas.

“In theater there is not a second, or fifth take, you only got one chance to do things right. I can not stand the puppet actor, who does not propose, discusses, nor thinks by himself. But I can neither stand the actor that questions and boycotts the director’s work all the time,” added the actress.

Besides, she referred to the saying “ there are not small parts, only big actors” regarding people’s questioning on why she has taken such small parts in which she only appears on stage for a brief period of time.

She talked about how people show her recognition:

“A lot of people approach to me in the street and tell me: — I know you, I do not know your name but I have seen you, you are a good actress— that is the best compliment for me,” mentioned Luisa Huertas.

To conclude her talk, the actress Luisa Huertas — graduated from Theater Arts from the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s University Theater’s Center — summed up what she has lived during four decades of artistic career.

“I have cried of anxiety, I have kicked out of fury for having left wonderful parts off my hands, parts that I know I will no be able to interpret in the future due to my age. It is a difficult profession. I have cried for I have felt there is injustice within the environment (artistic). I have had serious economic needs, in other words, I have been an actress during forty years,” said Huertas.

Currently, Luisa Huertas works in the National Theater Company and partakes in the recording of the “Capadocia” second season television series. Besides, she is Head of the Studies Center for the Use of Voice.