This month of April was one of the most anticipated on the small screen due to the number of premieres that would be released on Netflix. Among them, and boosted in the media after the success of ‘In Body on Fire’ and the return of crime-themed series, ‘The Asunta Case’, named after the story that shocked the entire country a little over a decade ago. . a fiction starring Candela Peña, Tristán Ulloa, Javier Gutiérrez and María León, among others, which is already a real success on the popular platform.
He play The first chapter is a trip back in time to September 21, 2013, the day Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra reported the disappearance of their daughter Asunta. The case was as tricky as it was controversial: hours later the body of the girl, who was only 12 years old, appeared. She had died of asphyxiation. The investigation pointed to the parents as guilty, who ended up sentenced to 18 years in prison each; He remains behind bars and she hanged herself in her cell in November 2020.
The one who has had the difficult task of playing Rosario Porto is Candela Peña; from Basterra does Tristán Ulloa. A few months ago, The actor spoke out through social networks to denounce the attitude of some people whose bad intentions sought to fuel the rumors. about the truth behind that traumatic case. Now it has been Peña who has done the same in the podcast ‘La Script’.
Their confession has been a portrait as concise as it is explicit of the nightmare they experienced while filming the series: “In Santiago de Compostela I spent five months listening to ‘daughter of a bitch’ and ‘die’”. As she explains, those insults, which are directed at the character, also find another recipient, herself. And many see in Candela Peña an actress “who is going to make money from something terrible.”
“For anyone who knows about movies or actors, it is basic not to judge a character”Peña insists that he defends the need to remain “in the truth of Rosario.” so that your interpretation is the best possible.
Her first time as Rosario Porto
The director of ‘The Asunta Case’, Ramón Camposcontacted Candela Peña to play the character that María León finally played. In that conversation, the actress was interested in knowing who would play Rosario Porto in fiction and, seeing that there was still no one for the role, she asked for an opportunity to take the test.
Fifteen days later, Candela Peña was casting perfectly dressed. At that moment, the entire team knew that they had in front of their eyes the ideal actress to play Asunta’s adoptive mother. Precisely, the promotional photos of ‘The Asunta Case’ belong to that day in which the interpreter performed the test which allowed him to keep the leading role.
The Galician accent was one of the great challenges for Candela Peña. “I’m from Barcelona and I knew that there are extraordinary Galician actresses who could have played this character (…) I experienced it as a very big responsibility,” she says. “It took me three weeks to say the word ‘Alfonso’. I spent hours repeating it,” he adds. The Catalan spent months working side by side with two vocal coaches.
“She looked like the exorcist’s girl”
One of Candela Peña’s most memorable anecdotes during filming took place during the first days of work: “I was so scared that the first day they put the wig on me, I started vomiting. I saw Tristán and I already knew that he was the best companion I was going to have (…) This man holding my forehead… How long did we stay?
“I had the exorcist’s girl next to me. We were doing ‘The Exorcist’ directly. We spent hours,” adds Ulloa. “Tristán told me ‘but say something, Candela’ and he didn’t want to say anything so as not to be the typical actress who on the first day is already giving the grade. And he told me ‘you’re already giving the grade, everyone is realizing it’ (…) An ambulance came and the woman had been Rosario Porto’s classmate”, he concludes.
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