It was one of the most emotional and shocking scenes of the week in the Mega nighttime soap opera “Como la vida misma,” the death of the character played by Héctor Noguera, Armando, who left viewers of the fiction with a sea of tears.
The Alzheimer’s disease that accompanied Noguera’s character, and that marked a good part of his career in the private channel soap opera, ultimately did not have the happy outcome that a large part of the production’s followers expected as “Armando” progressed. ignoring his greatest loves, such as Malú (character played by Coca Guazzini), his son Marco (Andrés Velasco), and his grandchildren.
Héctor Noguera’s reaction to the outcome of “Armando”
“I did not know, nor did anyone know, I believe, until very late in the soap opera, that my character was going to suffer from Alzheimer’s. For me it was a surprise when they told me,” the actor said in the Mega YouTube program “Spoiler Alert.”
I did not know, nor did anyone know, I believe, until very late in the soap opera, that my character was going to suffer from Alzheimer’s.
— Hector Noguera
In that intimate conversation, the actor addressed the effect that this condition in his character could have on viewers, a guy who despite being “very old, was also very happy.”
“At first I was surprised, but I also doubted whether it was good or not, or what was going to happen to the public, because my character, although he was very old, was also very happy, he was very good at reading,” he confessed.
“I didn’t know what was going to happen to the public, how they were going to tolerate Alzheimer’s themselves, so I often hesitated. ‘Is it going to cause disappointment in the public? Is he going to lose this jolly old man? he mused.
“But later, already creating the character, I realized that the authors had taken it in a very special way, not how I imagined it. Without taking away the tragedy of the illness, the spirit of the character was maintained,” explained Noguera, who in the end recognized the importance of representing in this way a reality in the daily lives of many ordinary people.
“Most of them tell me: ‘What a shame you got sick,’ with a mix of sadness and a bit of disappointment. On the street everyone told me that they wanted everything to end happier, but the truth is that we had to be faithful to the name of the television series and not have such a rosy ending, let’s say,” he concluded.
