LA BY WAY OF MEXICO
The Lady Is a Rebel By Ca ro l Bada r acco Padge t t
T ijuana, Mexico-born Lucia Argut possesses a number of traits that have helped her rise and stand strong in the entertainment world. Of course there are the usual ones of talent and beauty that many in the field share. But there’s one in particular that has clinched the deal for this actress, content producer, and director, and that’s sheer perseverance. The Telemundo morning show TV host puts it like this. “The saying, ‘When you do what you love, you stop working’ is totally accurate. No matter how much peo- ple try and diminish you, you have already won.” Argut knows from personal expe- rience what she’s talking about, because her journey in the entertainment indus- try hasn’t always been marked by outside encouragement. “Everyone secretly desires or craves for a moment to be the center of atten- tion—with a camera or in front of a crew,” she believes. “But it must be mentioned that if you are able to do this work easily (and naturally), you have already mastered a very important aspect of being human: you have stopped caring about what others might think or say about you.” Personally, she worked hard to over- come and push through any self-doubt in her quest to achieve a state of mind where she didn’t let others’ beliefs or her own fears hold her back. “The first time I was live on TV, I almost threw up,” she admits. “And all of my childhood and during high school I had panic toward public speaking.” Yet she remembers her father, a biochemical engineer, pushing her to overcome this very
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When it comes to both her film and TV work, Argut has met resistance that she has had to overcome, with those close to her expressing negative opinions about her career aspirations. So much so that for a time, when she was younger, she says, “I stopped doing it because my fam- ily seemed not to agree with this way of living, and a lot of people say it is not a job.” Yet, Argut had the courage to fol- low her own line of thinking on a life in the industry, firmly stating, “It is under- estimated.” So the rebel’s answer to dis- couragement was to build up years in the field of production, creating content for commercials and even directing an acting academy in Mexico. Of her personal journey in the en- “ I live thinking and feeling that once we have found our passion, it can give us great happiness. It would be a shame not to do it because of fear. ”
tertainment industry, Argut shares, “It took me years to realize my passion; I have been working since I was 16 years old, and I would change jobs constantly.” Yet, she closes, “I loved none of those jobs until I found mine. Since then, I live thinking and feeling that once we have found our passion, it can give us great hap- piness. It would be a shame not to do it because of fear, which I understand can be a big challenge.” It’s a challenge, though, that Argut meets head on moving into the future, with passion and a strong drive for success—no matter what anyone else thinks.
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real and common fear by making her memorize long, ar- duous passages of poetry and then recite it at her school. “He trained me for poetry in my childhood, reciting with a pencil in my mouth to improve pronunciation. I hated it!” she laughs. “He was so difficult to impress, so even if you did good, you rarely knew if he was proud, which made me a perfectionist and a rebel at a young age.” And then she recalls with a smile, “My mom says I’m a lot like him, and she doesn’t love that a lot.”
Never afraid to tackle challenges, Argut has stretched beyond her prominent morning show hosting gig on Telemundo, working on a number of short films, both as an actress and a producer. And she has three feature films under her belt, including Tijuana I Love You , by Rene Bueno, which has been well received on the film festival circuit before its release to the public. Another recent project that’s dear to her is a short film, Dinner in the Round , that she recently produced and acted in. “It has been successful as well on the film circuit,” she notes. “It was directed by my dear friend H Cole K, and it’s filled with very metaphorical situations.”
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