The family and close friends of the actress Daniela Costa are determined to continue with her legacy, because she wanted it that way. The interpreter of Leaving Class died at the age of 42 on December 14 after her fight against breast cancer. And she left some unfinished projects that will soon see the light of day from some close friends who want to honor her memory.
Costa fought for his health until the last moment with great awareness of his own process and wanted his experience to help others. For this reason, she transferred a manuscript to her family that will soon be published in the form of a book after editing by her sister Esther Costa, and whose benefits will go to the actress's son. In that book she will share her life learning and her reflections, because before she died she was looking for the opportunity to do so, and sadly that moment will come posthumously.
Restless, generous, family-oriented, without a desire for fame, a lover of nature, interested in philosophy and an expert in holistic therapies such as shiatsu, craniosacral, anima ampuku, butoh dance and vipassana meditation. This is how she describes her family to Daniela Costa.
Another project of the actress that will see the light of day in the coming months after being in a drawer for several years is a documentary in which Costa participated as producer alongside the artist Marcel Salmans. A few years ago they traveled together through several Arab countries and decided to tell what the liberation of citizens and in particular of women in the Arab world was being like. Specifically, they conducted interviews in Tunisia and Libya during a trip that lasted more than a month.
Costa's latest work as an actress is also pending release, the film Escapes and Absences, a psychological thriller filmed in 2020 by film director Rafael Alcázar. The film tells the story of Luna and Blanca, played by Daniela Costa and Clara Botas respectively. Both protagonists are patients of the same psychologist and suspects of a series of crimes in an environment where nothing is what it seems.
After that job, Costa moved away from acting, and focused on her desired motherhood and on projects related to other artistic disciplines, as well as health and childhood education. The actress conceived a project that she named Creative Consciousness together with a group of people aware of applying holistic therapies and knowledge to children and their parents. Active listening, respect for the individual and protection of feminine energy were some of her principles. She also co-founded a homeschooling group, that is, home education, in which her son was a student.
With her mother, the painter Daniela Velázquez, the actress also shared the humanitarian project Da luz y amor, with which they wanted to help people in need find a home for coexistence, focusing on people “in need, abused or socially excluded” and also in promoting generational exchange between older people and children.
But above all, what Daniela considered her greatest achievement and most precious legacy in life was her son, who, according to her mother's family, wished for a feminine upbringing, open to the world and multicultural, in the same land that saw the actress grow up.
