In the midst of a fame he never expected to achieve, Tenoch Huerta is succeeding like never before. And we love it! The reasons are simple, he is a worthy representative of Mexico, a forgotten Mexico that was waiting for the moment to come out of the shadows through the talent and voice of a people that has nothing to hide and nothing to be ashamed of.
José Tenoch Huerta MejÃa, 41, has come a long way to be recognized within the film industry, he even confessed to the magazine rolling stones that becoming an actor was never his life project and that he only did it to earn a living. His reasons were apparently simple, the racism and segregation to which he was exposed throughout his life.
People of my skin color were absent from the screen of my national cinema. If they came out dark on the screen it’s because we went out to kill, rape and murder. What happened was that these characters did not occupy a position of power, nor did they have influence within the story. Other than that, there were no brown people in film and television, and for this reason, I never imagined being an actor.
Even so, Tenoch realized he was a professional when he was eight years old acting and was nominated for an Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Since then, he began to take things more seriously and understood that he had to work three times as hard as others to excel the way he did. As his theater teacher, Torres Torrija, told him:
You’re not pretty, nor soap opera shit. You are not white. You do not come from spaces of power. You have no family in between. You didn’t go to their schools. You don’t move in their circles. You have nothing to be there. That’s why you have to be faster, taller and stronger. You have to read more books, know more, see more works.
Thus, today, the actor from Ecatepec, State of Mexico, is a national star who upholds indigenous peoples with his incredible participation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU, for its acronym in English) as Namor, the antihero of the sequel to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Although, unsurprisingly, her mere existence within the film was enough for racists to pour out from all corners of the internet to label her role “forced inclusion.”
In any case, Tenoch, who has indigenous ancestry from his Nahua grandmother and Purépecha great-grandmother, could not be more indifferent to those people who did not trust his talent, since, according to what he confessed in an interview for Attitudefem, He dedicates his achievements to his daughters and to all his loved ones, which is why he sent the following message to those haters that attack you from the comfort of your computer:
There’s 2 hours, 41 minutes of stuff I’m telling you and you’re paying to see it.
Source: Okchicas
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