Luisa María Jiménez was one of the pioneers in Cuba in nudity for theater, film, and television; however, showing her body as part of a character had serious consequences for her life.
In an interview with Abel Álvarez, the Cuban actress opened up about the many aggressions she faced, especially from men on the streets, simply for the act of undressing in front of the cameras.
The first time she did a nude scene was in the theater, Luisa María recounted, that day it was a play in the round, where the audience is very close to the actors, and her mother went to see it. The actress played a character who dressed as a man throughout the play, but in the end, she ended up completely undressing.
"When my poor mother saw that, thankfully it was already the end of the show, she got up from her seat and left. When she grabbed me, she said: 'How is it possible that you did this and didn't warn me that you were going out naked! Who do you take after, Luisa María? I’m not coming to see you in any theater play again.' She told me everything, can you imagine, my mother, a true lady," the artist recounted.
"I have suffered from everything, I don't remember having heard any bad criteria, but that caused a state of excitement, of mental disturbance, especially in the male sex, and the anecdotes I have about that are tremendous and the things that happened to me were more than tremendous," he confessed.
In response to the question of whether she was assaulted at any point, she replied: “People touched me (...) One day I was standing at a corner waiting to cross the street and a motorcycle with a sidecar passed by, and when the man saw me standing there, I was wearing a top; since then, I’ve never worn one of those tops again. I was wearing a red one, he stopped in front of me, looked at me and did this ‘tra’ and pulled it down completely to my waist.”
"I have experienced unpleasant things, all coming from men (...) I was harassed in the buses, I was subjected to all kinds of things on the back of my body, I was touched," she said about those many unpleasant experiences she endured.
However, among her colleagues in the acting world, including men and technical staff, she always received respect.
Luisa María points out that people recognized her boldness in doing such things in acting in Cuba, but at the same time, this generated mixed feelings, a typical trait of a society as macho as Cuban society, where gender-based violence prevails.
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