Mexican actress Maria Félix said she ate human meat during a 1951 Morocco banquet

Mexican actress Maria Félix said she ate human meat during a 1951 Morocco banquet

During the filming of the movie *La Corona Negra* in Morocco in 1951, Mexican film actress María Félix recounted that she and her son Enrique Álvarez Félix were invited to a banquet by a local host and ate a dish that was later identified to them as human meat. Félix described the experience in an interview with Mexican journalist Ricardo Rocha later in life, indicating she did not know the true origin of the dish when she consumed it.

Félix said that she and her son accepted the invitation while in Chefchaouen, a city in northern Morocco, and that the host had a taste for the controversial dish. She stated that after being informed about the nature of the meat, she realized what they had eaten, though at the moment of consumption she believed it to be an ordinary serving of food.

The anecdote has been widely circulated in biographical accounts and media retrospectives on Félix’s life and career. While the event took place during the Moroccan segment of the film production, it was shared by Félix decades later in interviews as a unique and unusual experience from her extensive travels during her acting career.