Marta Hazas on ‘Culpa Tuya’ – Exclusive Interview

You and Goya both portray mothers. And more than that, we see two strong women representations in their own unique ways. Could you tell us a bit about your character from your own perspective? How do you perceive them?

Marta Hazas: In the case of Rafaella, even if she tries to look strong, she’s quite frail. She’s a woman who suffered a lot in the past. She had a toxic relationship with Noah’s dad and she doesn’t want her daughter to repeat the same patterns. She is afraid of losing the family’s stability she has achieved and she is scared of breaking that because of two teenagers.

Marta Hazas: “In the case of Rafaella, even if she tries to look strong, she’s quite frail. She’s a woman who suffered a lot in the past. She had a toxic relationship with Noah’s dad and she doesn’t want her daughter to repeat the same patterns.”

At the end of Culpa Tuya, you hinted at the third movie by saying, “It’s going to be our fault from now on.” Your character’s narrative is also becoming more complex and deeper. What do you think lies ahead for her?

Marta Hazas: It’s difficult to talk about the future without spoilers but I think Rafaella, cannot see beyond because she is so scared. She doesn’t want to situation to change. It was so difficult for her to get to this point. And we’ll see as you said with that sentence, she says there is a time when she feels guilty because she can see that she is making her daughter very unhappy. And she doesn’t want her daughter to be unhappy. And we’ll see progress from overbearing Rafaella to a woman who wants her daughter to be happy and to make her own mistakes.

The story is based on a book that already had a very large fan base on Wattpad. Does that make it harder to play a character that’s already well-known and loved? There must be some pressure to live up to their expectations.

Marta Hazas: I thought about it in the first film because everyone has Rafaella in their minds and you try not to disappoint anyone. And when you see a film and you have read the book, you always tend to think, well, she looks nothing like what I thought. But I’m happy to how the fans have responded. And while they have welcomed me as the Rafaella they imagined, so it has been great.