Help with phrase in interview
Hola Amigos, I need help with a phrase in an article I'm reading, which is an interview with the Colombian actor Manolo Cardona. He is discussing his role as a gay man in love with a fisherman in Peru in the film Contracorriente. He has just been asked about the film being contraversial in Latin America and does he believe there are a lack of gay role models in Latin America.
P: ¿No crees que en Latinoamérica existe un vacio de modelos a seguir en ese sentido? R: Esos es algo demasiado intimo y personal como para seguir modelos ajenos.
I understand each of the words in the answer, but not the total meaning, espercially for "para seguir modelos ajenos." (to follow bad role-models??) Please let me know how you would transate the answer. Also, let me know if I have understood the question correctly.
Thanks!
4 Answers
This is the best I can do! I hope it helps!
It seems that the interviewer is asking if he agree that LA do not have enough role-models to follow for his role and he answers (very clever) that his role is very intimate and that no "role-model" is needed....
Don't do you think that Latin America has a void of role-models to follow in this sense? It is something very intimate and personal, as to try to follow somebody else's model.
Qfreed is right It came means foriegn in the sense of strange, but I think It would be others Here's the definition Pay attention to the first definition
thanks, I think it does mean "of others." I was translating ajeno as something negative based on part of the definition here on Spanisdict: Foreign, strange.3. Abhorrent, contrary to, remote.4. Ignorant.5. Improper.
Where are you getting the "bad" in para seguir modelos ajenos?
I think ajenos there means "foreign"; not strange.
