“I think we all have a magic within us,” says Mexican actress Macarena Oz, and found his on stage. “The performance has been my everything, my life, teaches me every day, is my circle of people, is what I know, is what I love to do.”
Macarena, 22, tells Forbes Mexico that began from below, living far from Mexico City and working since childhood to study at the Artistic Education Center (CEA), in Televisa. It is considered lucky, then, to every casting that went, stayed. “Life has been very friendly with me and still is.”
For her, her family’s support was fundamental, but especially her mother’s. “She is very proud of everything we have achieved too, and I say we have achieved because although it is an effort of one that is so that she is on the screen, but I have always thought that it is a lot of people who help you to get where you have to arrive,” he says.
Although his career as an actress began at age 7, in commercials, in theater and in novels, but the impulse to his career came when starring the Mexican series ‘Nobody is going to miss us’, Prime, premiered in August 2024. “He changed my life and changed everything,” says the actress who played Daniela in history.
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Although he acknowledges that it is difficult to make “a name” within the industry, his philosophy is that art is for others. “(It is) to share, to continue creating and if it is achieved and if it happens, what incredible, which happened here, that we did not expect it at all,” he says.
A change in industry
One of the biggest challenges he has faced is the physical change of childhood to adolescence. “She was no longer the typical skinny girl of commercials and for the industry it is very difficult to accept different types of body, skins, people, many things.”
Macarena is optimistic and says that, with effort and perseverance, dreams are fulfilled, and feels encouraged to see that new opportunities are opened within the entertainment industry that are increasingly looking to be more inclusive.
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“I have the idea that you are born and if you are not born with that, even if you discover it later, you bring it, it is already something that will call you at some point,” he says. Today he has the courage to make a deaf ear to criticism and shout to the world who he is. He also wants to reach other countries and conquer Hollywood and, perhaps, an Oscar. “And keep living from art until the day I die, that’s what I want most.”
