This Friday, April 26, Netflix premiered the miniseries ‘The Asunta case: Operation Nenúfar’, an expected crime documentary what they committed Alfonso Basterra and Rosario Porto, who suffocated his adopted daughter Asunta.
The two actors chosen to represent the Galician journalist and the lawyer have been Tristán Ulloa and Candela Peñawho have starred in a important physical and mental change to embody these two personalities. The two artists, accustomed to much more casual roles, have personified an important metamorphosis to put yourself in the skin of the perpetrators of this frivolous murder. “They hurt each other, but they needed each other,” Ulloa declared on Cadena SER.
Tristán Ulloa and Candela Peña agree in their statements that neither of them saw themselves playing this role. “I am overwhelmed by seeing myself as Asunta’s father. It was complicated. In fact“I didn’t want to play that role.”, the actor has reported in El País, who had just played a very different role in ‘Berlín’ and who has been seen graying, with a beard and short hair. He is also known for his performances in Narcos, Fariña or The Snow Girl.
“I didn’t see myself playing Rosario Porto at all. I didn’t even think about it because it was a very difficult character. I went for what they had called me and asked who was going to play Rosario,” said Candela Peña, awarded the Goya for performances such as ‘Te dio mis ojos’, ‘Princesses’ and ‘A pistol in each hand’. This artist has also shown a very important physical change, and has been seen with the short hair, serious face and very classic clothing far from its normality.
