The Moria series, available on Netflix, reopened the debate about the artistic environment of the eighties and the behaviors of several figures from that era. Among the names that resurfaced is Jorge Porcel, remembered as one of the great comedians of the time, but also criticized for reprehensible attitudes towards women at work.
Georgina Barbarossa was one of those who spoke candidly. In an interview with the reporter from Sálvese quien pueda, on América, the host made her opinion about the capocómico clear. “Don’t talk to me about him because he was a despicable being,” she said right off the bat.
She explained the context in which she had to endure those situations: she was just starting to work, very young, and her family's financial situation was complicated, so she couldn't afford to quit. “I had to suffer through it and I didn’t say anything to the Basque because at that moment I was just starting to work, I was very young, and we were really struggling financially, so I had to work anyway,” she recounted.
One of the hardest episodes she recalled happened during a recording. Porcel touched her butt “in a horrible way that I won’t describe.” Georgina went to cry in the dressing room. There, she was found by Carmen Vallejo, mother of Selva Alemán, who comforted her and promised that from that moment on she would stay by her side during the sketches to prevent the episode from happening again.
