The unknowns and hypotheses that exist about the murder of Paco Stanley They revived this 2024 for the premiere of the miniseries ‘Who killed him?’. In just six chapters the alleged testimonies of the main people involved in the case are broken down, either because of their proximity to the driver or because they were at the scene of the armed attack.
Among these, the episode inspired by Paola Durante, a Uruguayan model who worked with Paco Stanley in the program ‘Una after Otra’. And she was played by none other than Belinda and, to do so, the Spanish artist underwent drastic characterization that made her way of speaking difficult.
Although its chapter has not yet been released (it will be available on Amazon Prime Video on June 7), has been harshly criticized on social networks for the result of the characterization. Even Paola Durante already shared her opinion on the matter:
“To begin with, I didn’t talk like that at 24 years old.”commented in the first chapter of his series in Youtube which will be called ‘The truth during silence’.
The interpreter of ‘Bella betrayal’ gave an interview to Javier Risco with Zuria Vega to talk about the miniseries inspired by the murder of Paco Stanley. There she revealed that she used prosthetics all over her mouth to make her face look different.
“Recording and talking with prosthetics is very complicated. In addition to braces, I had prosthetics on the entire top, bottom, and back so that the face was completely different from mine and well. It was very difficult to speak, suddenly I couldn’t be understood.”, he commented.
In this way, Belinda acknowledged that she had complications being able to speak with the prostheses, but she achieved it with a lot of effort. This despite the fact that the material caused sores in his mouth.
“After the series, I had sores, because I also had braces, inside my lips for about a month, I think. I spoke and it hurt me, that is, it was painful.”
And he confessed that throughout his episode he tried to empathize with Paco Stanley’s former aide-de-camp, especially with how she felt when she was arrested for her alleged participation in the driver’s murder and the public rejection she received when she regained her freedom.
“The goal was for Belinda to disappear completely and to put myself in Paola’s shoes. From the tone of her hair, how she spoke, how her expressions were, how at that time, in which I am representing her, she was very young, she was vulnerable,” she mentioned.
Zuria Vega recognized Belinda’s work and explained that it can be very difficult for any actor to speak with prosthetics in their mouth.
“Getting behind that and doing the things you have to do emotionally is very difficult. One is full of prosthetics, of things, but also cry, get angry, talk, laugh and don’t lose the effect of what you have to be doing in the characterization. I think that’s super complex,” she said.
He even said that when the entire cast saw Belinda dressed as Paola, no one recognized her:
“The day they put the prosthetics on him (…) his mouth looked deformed and… it was the goal. I remember perfectly that I told him: ‘I came from doing something similar in another context, in another series with Beto (Humberto Hinojosa) and I even gained a wrinkle that I didn’t have before I was making a (duck) mouth.’ “When they put things in your face, whether to make you look pretty or to look like someone else, you become deformed.”
