After years of silence, Benjamín Alfonso confessed that he was a victim of sexual harassment at work. How it hit his life and the process until healing.
Part of the cast of the successful series “in the mud”, Benjamín Alfonso He dared to tell that he suffered harassment from someone who was part of the cast of the series “Valeria”, in Spain. Produced by Netflix, Alfonso finally did not appear in any of the scenes of the strip. Because? They threw him because the actress who harassed him said that “they had no skin” and their shots then appeared with another actor.
The impact for Alfonso It was huge. “It was basically harassment against me, unfortunately. It was very strong. It was horrible,” said the actor. “He received calls high, I was in a couple, they didn’t care. But hey, many more things began to happen,” he added in dialogue with Juana Viale for the thirteen. “He takes care of the woman, but the man does not take care of him. Because it is taken for granted that man has to bank everything, “he complained.
According to his story, Alfonso had been contacted for the Spanish series and the team was “ultra feminist.” The real thing is that, during filming Benjamín Alfonso crossed situations of harassment both and within the recording set with scenes outside the libretto.
Benjamín Alfonso
Benjamín Alfonso and the impact of dismissal on his personal life
Then he recalled the moment in which they decided to lower it from the project: “After doing all this and that they have authorized scenes in which I did not know that I had to kiss or I had to do different things, after having gone everything, I finish recording the series, and they call me and tell me: ‘There is no skin between this person and you‘. It turns out that they wanted to go down to her and said that the problem was me and managed to convince the rest of the directors and they got me down. “Alfonso said that during those nine months in Spain he had respected his commitment by rejecting offers from Argentina.
The impact was strong. Having silent and supported situations where it could not be heard, Benjamin He said he began to lose self -confidence. To doubt his talent. He even separated from his partner and his body began to take its toll. “I began to cover emotions that began to print in my body“He commented when he stopped processing the food and went down 13 kilos.” I lost security in myself, I walked away from my partner, my friends, I began to stay only, “he told that panorama, the impact that caused him the death of the friend who had helped him to stay afloat during the time of harassment was added to that panorama.
Benjamín Alfonso and his role in the mud
Already spare, Alfonso enjoys the success of in the mud where he had to play a difficult role. There he put himself in the skin of Valentina Zenere’s ex -partner in fiction. In fact, for the difficulty of certain scenes and for being a very sensitive person, He armed a containment ring: “I called my counselor, I called my therapist, I called a coach, Consuelo Summers, a divine. I said: ‘I need to talk, because I know yes, but I need to know why'”
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“Today everything about feminism is stigmatized And one thinks’ Let’s see if this ends up splashing for something, ”he said for how difficult it was to embody the skin of his character.
Source: Ambito
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