Yalitza Aparicio

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Vogue Mexico January 2019

Punto De Vista: Yalitza Aparicio

Photographer: Santiago & Mauricio
Editor: Regina Montemayor
Stylist: Pamela Ocampo
Hair: Manuel Oliva
Makeup: Monica Godines
Manicure: Gabriela Lopez Robledo
Cast: Yalitza Aparicio

Vogue Mexico Digital Edition

 

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UK Vogue February 2019

The Hollywood Portfolio: Shine A Light

Photographer: Nick Knight
Stylist: Kate Phelan
Hair: Sam McKnight
Makeup: Laura Dominique
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Carey Mulligan, Laura Harrier, Yalitza Aparicio, Rosamund Pike, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Felicity Jones



UK Vogue Digital Edition

 

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Gosh, I love her Vogue Mexico spread. It's so refreshing!

 

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Actor Yalitza Aparicio attends the 19th Annual AFI Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 4, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the 30th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards Gala at Palm Springs Convention Center on January 3, 2019 in Palm Springs, California.

Yalitza Aparicio is seen arriving at 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' in Los Angeles, California on December 19, 2018.

Yalitza Aparicio poses during the premiere of the Netflix movie Roma at Cineteca Nacional on December 18, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the Netflix "Roma" Premiere at the Egyptian Theatre on December 10, 2018 in Hollywood, California..

Yalitza Aparicio attends The New York Times Magazine celebration of The Great Performers Issue at NeueHouse Los Angeles on December 06, 2018 in Hollywood, California.

Yalitza Aparicio attends The Hollywood Reporter's Power 100 Women In Entertainment at Milk Studios on December 05, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the "Roma" New York screening at DGA Theater on November 27, 2018 in New York City.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards with FIJI Water at Cipriani, Wall Street on November 26, 2018 in New York City.

Yalitza Aparicio talks to the press during the red carpet and screening of Alfonso Cuarón and Netflix film 'Roma' at Cineteca National on November 21, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 10th annual Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center on November 18, 2018 in Hollywood, California.

Yalitza Aparicio, New Hollywood Actress Award recipient, poses in the press room during the 22nd Annual Hollywood Film Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.

Actor Yalitza Aparicio attends the screening of "Roma" during the 21st SCAD Savannah Film Festival on October 27, 2018 in Savannah, Georgia.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the UK Premiere of "Roma" and Journey Gala at the 62nd BFI London Film Festival on October 13, 2018 in London, England.

Actor Yalitza Aparicio attends the premiere of ROMA during the 56th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on October 5, 2018 in New York City.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the "ROMA" red carpet premiere on September 10, 2018 in Toronto, Canada.

Yalitza Aparicio walks the red carpet ahead of the 'Roma' screening during the 75th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on August 30, 2018 in Venice, Italy.

Yalitza Aparicio attends 'Roma' photocall during the 75th Venice Film Festival at Sala Casino on August 30, 2018 in Venice, Italy.

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Yalitza Aparicio (far left) in Roma

“The shoot for Roma lasted six months. We shot in chronological order. It was a very long process for me. I had not seen any of Alfonso Cuarón’s films. I actually didn’t know who he was. Alfonso asked me not to watch any of his films until we were done with the filming. He didn’t want me poisoning my mind with any images or ideas.”

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Yalitza Aparicio at the W Magazine Celebrates Its 'Best Performances' Portfolio and the Golden Globes with Audi and Giorgio Armani Beauty party.

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Yalitza Aparicio attends The BAFTA Los Angeles Tea Party at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 5, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

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Yalitza Aparicio attends the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Yalitza Aparicio attends the 24th annual Critics' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on January 13, 2019 in Santa Monica, California.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the 44th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards at the InterContinental Hotel on January 12, 2019 in Century City, California.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the 2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards at TAO Downtown on January 7, 2019 in New York City.

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Yalitza Aparicio of ‘Roma’ and the Politics of Stardom in Mexico

The film’s star was on her way to being a teacher when she landed the role. Now she’s part of a conversation about Indigenous people and inequality.

Should she get an Oscar nomination for “Roma,” Yalitza Aparicio says, “I’d be breaking the stereotype that because we’re Indigenous we can’t do certain things.”CreditCreditNatalia Mantini for The New York Times

By Laura Tillman
Jan. 17, 2019

MEXICO CITY — Yalitza Aparicio, the star of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” sat on a sunny bench in Parque Mexico, just a few blocks from the Mexico City neighborhood that gave the film its title. She chose the park for a chat amid months of red carpets, photo shoots and press interviews in hotel rooms because she said it reminded her most of home, Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca.

Aparicio, now 25, had just completed her teaching degree and was living in that mountainous city of 40,000 when she auditioned on a whim for the lead role in “Roma,” a housekeeper and nanny named Cleo. Now, Aparicio is being heralded as a role model for women and Indigenous people in Mexico, and buzzed about by critics for her performance.

Does she get recognized a lot these days?

“No! Here? Well, no,” Aparicio said in Spanish. “They only seem to recognize me when we go out dressed up, but when I’m dressed naturally, no. I think that a lot of people haven’t seen it yet, and we look different on the screen than in person.”

The park is a flurry of activity — joggers under a canopy of jacaranda and palm trees, dog walkers holding the leashes of 10 or more pups, telecommuters at cafe tables. She came here for the first time during filming two years ago.

She isn’t sure she’ll continue to act or return to her original plan, teaching.CreditNatalia Mantini for The New York Times

She isn’t sure she’ll continue to act or return to her original plan, teaching.CreditNatalia Mantini for The New York Times
In December, Aparicio appeared on the cover of Vogue México, a milestone for a woman of Indigenous descent in the magazine’s 20-year history. Aparicio isn’t satisfied to be an exception; she wants to use her emerging star power to create a more inclusive future for her country.

“It shouldn’t matter what you’re into, how you look — you can achieve whatever you aspire to,” she said.

Even before the movie began showing on Netflix in December, there were signs of change: That month, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that the 2 million-plus domestic workers, the vast majority of whom are women, must have access to the country’s social security system. The new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has vowed a special focus on alleviating the oppression and poverty Indigenous peoples face.

Though Cuarón didn’t set out to make a political film, he is embracing the result. At a premiere last month at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City, he welcomed a domestic-workers-rights advocate, Marcelina Bautista, to the stage. “All domestic workers in Mexico are Libo, we identify with her,” Bautista told the audience, referring to Cuarón’s childhood nanny, Liboria Rodríguez, on whom Cleo is based. “Mexico owes a lot to its women, and we must end the violence and abuse of power over women.”

Even as Aparicio is celebrated, she has become a target of racist attacks online. Aparicio said that while it initially upset her, she is now focused on the scores who have called her a role model and sent fan art. “I’m not the face of Mexico,” she added, since the country has many faces.

The editor in chief of Vogue México and Vogue Latinoamérica, Karla Martinez de Salas, said she witnessed the racist and classist reactions to photos of Aparicio in Vanity Fair, and worried that the Vogue images would meet a similar response. Rather, they were celebrated with the largest response the magazine has ever received on social media.

for the premiere of “Roma,” where she watched the movie for the first time. She tried to contain her emotions, but 30 minutes in, she began crying, and continued until the closing credits. It has been a whirlwind ever since, with trips to London, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Los Angeles and more.

The journey actually started two years earlier. The director of a Tlaxiaco cultural center had invited Aparicio’s older sister, Edith, to a mysterious casting call that would turn out to be for Cuarón’s big-screen portrait of Cleo and Mexico City in the 1970s. Casting the lead was a monthslong process that involved tapes of more than 3,000 women, none of whom Cuarón found quite right. At the audition, Edith Aparicio, who was pregnant, hesitated and urged Yalitza to try out instead so she could recount the details.

Cuarón met her at a callback. “I was starting to get a bit nervous until suddenly Yalitza walks into the office, and it was that presence — kind of shy but very open,” Cuarón recalled by phone. He’d been looking to match the sensibility of Libo, an empathic way of relating to others.

“It’s how she approaches people, how she is in a place and wants to make sure that people, particularly vulnerable people, are fine,” he said. But when he told Aparicio he wanted her to star in the film, she wavered. She had just finished her teaching degree and would have to talk with her family.


Aparicio wants to use her emerging star power to create a more inclusive future for her country: “It shouldn’t matter what you’re into, how you look — you can achieve whatever you aspire to.”

CreditNatalia Mantini for The New York Times

Aparicio wants to use her emerging star power to create a more inclusive future for her country: “It shouldn’t matter what you’re into, how you look — you can achieve whatever you aspire to.”CreditNatalia Mantini for The New York Times
Soon after, Aparicio called back. There was a gap before the application season for teaching jobs. “She says, ‘Well, I think I can do it,’” Cuarón recalled. “‘I have nothing better to do.’”

To prepare for filming, Cuarón asked Aparicio and García to improvise scenes. He was amazed at how quickly they began playing Cleo and Adela — not replicating a conversation they might have had after class at teachers college. “What you see in the film, that’s not Yalitza, that is Cleo,” Cuarón said. “She crafted that character, you know? And she did it in a very kind of detailed way.”


The actors were not given a script or even a story arc. Aparicio drew on the intricate world of the set, based on Cuarón’s childhood memories, along with her own vision of the character, based in part on her mother’s experiences as a domestic worker. Aparicio became so invested in the role that when tragedy strikes her character, she suffers with agonizing realism. In fact, when the doctors deliver terrible news to Cleo, Aparicio didn’t believe them at first.

On set, Cuarón created a reality for Aparicio to inhabit. Now, she hopes to create a new reality in Mexico and show that Indigenous women can rise to the highest level in any field. It’s an aspiration that faces significant obstacles: More than 70 percent of Mexico’s Indigenous population lives in poverty, and discrimination — in hiring, education and the justice system — is rampant.

If by an outside chance Aparicio receives an Oscar nomination — she has picked up a handful of awards but was overlooked, for instance, by the Golden Globes — “I’d be breaking the stereotype that because we’re Indigenous we can’t do certain things because of our skin color,” she said. “Receiving that nomination would be a break from so many ideas. It would open doors to other people — to everyone — and deepen our conviction that we can do these things now.”

Aparicio isn’t sure if she’ll continue to act. As a teacher, she recognizes that film can transmit powerful messages. Molding the minds and hearts of children is much easier than changing the ingrained beliefs of adults, she said, yet she has been astonished to find that “Roma” is doing just that.

“In the end, this isn’t so different from what I wanted to do,” she said. “I realized that film can educate people of all ages, in a far-reaching way.”

NYtimes.com

 

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Yalitza Aparicio attends the 30th annual Producers Guild Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 19, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Oscar nomination!

Best Actress:
Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma”)
Glenn Close (“The Wife”)
Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”)
Lady Gaga (“A Star Is Born”)
Melissa McCarthy (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”)

 

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Congratulations to Yalitza on her Oscar nomination! What a wonderful achievement. I hope that the nomination will really open doors for her.

 

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Yalitza APARICIO

Hometown: Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico
Films: 1
First act: The 25-year-old had just received her teaching degree when a casting director for two-time Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón found her for his autobiographical passion project, Roma
Most Recently Seen: Starring as the housekeeper holding together a family in disarray in Cuarón’s equal parts epic and intimate opus
2019 Oscar Nominee: Best actress

“While my time in the business has been short, it has been a source of pride and hope for many people to see someone that looks like me—an indigenous person—starring in an Oscar-winning director’s film. And a big change for Hollywood.”

 

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Very happy for her! I'd rank her performance as #4 on that list. Above Lady Gaga.

 

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Yalitza Aparicio attends the 71st Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 02, 2019 in Hollywood, California.

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Yalitza Aparicio attends The Hollywood Reporter 2019 Oscar Nominee Party at CUT on February 04, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the 91st Oscars Nominees Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 04, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.

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She's on a roll - her looks are so lovely and perfect for her. I'm happy that Miu Miu is offering her such great choices, she wears them so well!

 

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Yalitza Aparicio attends the Charles Finch & Chanel pre-BAFTA's dinner at Loulou's on February 09, 2019 in London, England.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the Nespresso British Academy Film Awards nominees party at Kensington Palace on February 9, 2019 in London, England.

Yalitza Aparicio attends the 91st Oscars Nominee Champagne Tea Reception at Claridges Hotel on February 08, 2019 in London, England.

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Yalitza Aparicio attends the EE British Academy Film Awards at Royal Albert Hall on February 10, 2019 in London, England.

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I love her looks on this page, so cute! I wish she had kept that style for the BAFTAs as well.