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When Manuela Valdés arrived at the Rojo Carmesí casting to play Daiana Vásquez He was so clear about the character that he decided to give him a Paisa accent, even though he nowhere said that he was from this region.
She did so well that the directors decided that Daiana, who is part of the group Las Rojitas, who work alongside the protagonist Juana Levi (Laura de León), will stay with the accent and the idioms that Manuela incorporated.
To make the character more believable, he went to El Hueco, in the Center of Medellín, to talk to the saleswomen “especially to listen to the words and expressions of these girls, with that information I put together a whole log, almost a glossary, that I read every time I am studying the scripts,” says Manuela.
The Antioquian actress, who in 2014 represented Antioquia in the National Beauty Contestrecognizes that this role was a great challenge for her, especially because she has almost always been stigmatized with upper-class characters, while Daiana is quite popular, “intelligent, fun, forward-thinking and very resourceful.”
Being in a project with the deceased’s original idea Fernando Gaitán For her, it is “a dream come true, because its name alone is a guarantee of a good story, which is why I took it on with all the respect, admiration and dignity that that demands.” Even though she is from a very different generation, she recognizes that she saw herself I am Betty the Ugly one, the original 1999 production.
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Manuela, who studied at the Gimnasio Los Cedros school, in the capital of Paisa, highlights the work she has done alongside Las Rojitas.
“We liked each other very well from the beginning, so we didn’t have to do much, we clicked right away, each one with a very different personality, super respectful, cool, they are generous and committed women, so that topic has been very easy.” Actresses such as Natalia Durán and Jeymmy Paola Vargas.
The performance and podcast
They are still recording (they go until June) for Rojo Carmesí and is waiting for the premiere in Caracol of Class 95, a story about a modeling agency from the 90s “where I have a very cool character.”
It would be on the air at the end of the year.
“In 2023 I started with a podcast that this year I had to stop, because I haven’t had time, I haven’t stopped recording, so it’s been difficult for me to manage time, but I would like to be able to continue with that,” says the actress, who remembers that As a child, I wasn’t clear about being an actress, “but I was in the artistic field, I was in the school choir all the time and we did performances, my first starring role was Joseph in a manger,” she highlights amidst laughter.
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After singing, playing instruments and acting, making the decision to dedicate myself to the latter was easier than thought.
He went to live in Bogotá with his father and study Social Communication with the idea of always being behind the cameras until he had the opportunity to act in projects such as Nurses, until money do us part and Alias JJon television and in feature films such as The Walk 4 and Crazy for You.
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“I would love to consolidate my career here in my country, working on the stories that I know, that I feel I can tell better, but clearly I would like to work in Mexico and also act in English,” says Manuela, who She is the girlfriend of fellow Antioquian actor Juan Pablo Urrego, who has just starred in Rigo.
