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Playing the antihero Teresa Mendoza in Telemundo’s hit drama “La Reina del Sur” has a momentary nature for its star, Kate del Castillo. In a way, her bumpy career as a producer, actress and entrepreneur reflects it. the character’s upstream struggle against patriarchy, without weapons and without smuggling.
She speaks Zoom from the UK, where she is involved in the independent film “A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea”.
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The new season sees the incumbent The Queen once take on South America’s brutal male-dominated cartels, resuming 4 years after the U. S. government has taken on the U. S. government’ s . . . UU. la convicted of the murder of 3 anti-drug agents. The season begins with Mendoza furious on a mobile where she has been in isolation. imprisonment of 1,493 days.
Reviewing his alter-ago on required some adjustments, given Mendoza’s scenario.
Based on the novel of the same name by Spanish journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte, the series is Telemundo’s most ambitious production to date, resulting in a foreign Emmy Award for Season 2.
“La Reina” emerged as a huge hit for Telemundo in 2011 when the network began experimenting with shorter drama series designed to last several seasons than the classic telenovela format that was the foundation of Spanish-language television. Season 2 of “The Queen” arrived, seven years later, in 2019. Season 3 consists of 60 episodes.
This time, unlike past iterations in which Teresa Mendoza moved around Europe and other parts of the world, Season 3 features Latin America. The lens was positioned in iconic places such as the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, Machu Picchu in Peru, the and Santa Marta in Colombia.
As before, del Castillo worked for about 8 months on the series, and this season was filmed in about three hundred locations in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Mexico. In addition to sticking to the hectic route, production had to stick to strict COVID protocols.
“We were so afraid that the production would have to avoid it at some point, but we were lucky,” del Castillo recalls. Ironically, he contracted the virus once he returned home to Los Angeles.
Reviewing his alter-ago on required some adjustments, given Mendoza’s scenario.
“The hardest part is losing weight. No one asked me, but I think someone in solitary confinement for years would actually lose weight,” he said, adding, “It was hard, I didn’t eat anything!
The third season of “La Reina del Sur” written by Lina Uribe and Darío Vanegas. Directors included Carlos Bolado, Carlos Villegas and Claudia Pedraza. Marcos Santana, who resigned from his previous position as president of Telemundo Global Studios in January, is executive manufacturer and showrunner of the series, along with executive producers Ximena Cantuarias of Telemundo and AG. Rodrigo Guerrero of the studies.
In the twelve years since “La Reina” made Del Castillo a star in the United States, the actress who first established herself as a soap opera star in her local Mexico also starred in the Netflix drama series “Ingobernable. “He produced the Netflix documentary “The Day I Met Chapo,” about his fateful 2016 with actor Sean Penn to meet now-jailed drug cartel leader Joaquin Guzman in his hideout. He also started his own production company, Cholawood Productions, and starred in several films.
In 2019, Cholawood signed a first-look pact with Endemol Shine Boomdog, in Mexico City, Department of Banijay Americas.
He holds meetings “every day” with his partners in Cholawood, Carmen Cervantes and Jessica Maldonado, who run the company. “We are Latinas, we are women, that’s why we want to stay in the most sensible,” she said.
Cholawood is lately in post-production on “A Beautiful Lie,” a new Spanish-language edition of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” which he produced with Endemol Shine Boomdog. The six-episode series filmed in Mexico City this year with del Castillo on the lead.
“We tell a story with strong female characters where infidelity is a main element. We’ll also address various intellectual fitness issues, adding postpartum depression and the infrequently disastrous effect social media can have on people’s lives, especially public figures. , del Castillo explained when pronouncing the project. ” It’s a touch of fashion from the female point of view. “
The action mystery “A la caza de Ava Bravo,” which Cholawood co-produced with Spain’s The Mediapro Studio, premiered Aug. 19 on Amazon Prime Video in Mexico and Latin America and on Roku in the United States.
Among the cholawood projects in development, there is an evening communication exhibit, with del Castillo accommodation. “It’s time for us to have more female communication exhibition hostesses,” she said.
In his spare time, del Castillo also oversees an award-winning tequila company, Honor. His good fortune in the world of spirits has been easy, it hasn’t just been a matter of lending his name to an alcohol brand.
“To be honest, it’s a very macho company. I am the only Mexican celebrity (woman) who owns a tequila business. It’s been difficult, but I’m very proud of it,” she said.
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