Angélica Rivera and Daniela Castro: The Reigning Queens of Televisa's Telenovelas

2023-07-05 22:21:01

The last time Angélica Rivera starred in a telenovela was in 2007 with distilling love (Credit: AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini).

There was a time when Angelica Rivera y Daniela Castro They were the most important faces of Televisa’s soap operas.

Both starred in some of the most successful stories on the small screen, although their beginnings were very different. Angélica began with small roles, almost fillers, and was soon recognized as one of the unsympathetic antagonists of various youth melodramas, until she was part of productions where she took on characters of greater character and, to top it off, stellar.

Daniela, on the other hand, also had participation in some well-known series from her youth and soon became one of the most desired protagonists that the leading men sought to conquer, until one day she tried villains and did quite well.

They were the biggest stars of the 1990s and having them together would have possibly been a hit we’d still be talking about today. However, some Televisa executives saw a waste in that imaginary dumbbell.

Daniela Castro during the 2015 TV y Novelas Awards (Credit: Víctor Chávez/WireImage).

A few years ago, the protagonists of Chains of bitterness (Castro) and The owner (Rivera) raised their desire to work together on a telenovela. “We always wanted to do it. We’ve been presenting for many years… what’s more, We even talked with the writers who would write us a story at two o’clock“Daniela recounted recently.

José Cuauhtémoc Blanco and María del Carmen Peña would have been the ones chosen for such an adventure. The marriage has among its authorship works such as chains of bitterness, angela, the spring y the color of passionin addition to having been in charge of the adaptations of passion mazes y canebrake of passions.

But the endorsement never materialized. “They didn’t let us here in the company, why would two protagonists go to…, that is, no, it would be like a waste. I feel the opposite”said the actress.

Rivera and Castro have been away from the forums for years, one more than the other. But they are united by a friendship that still stands. Daniela has openly expressed her and Angélica’s desire to return to soap operas, and those close to her anticipate that one day it will happen.

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“People want to see us together and they also want to see us independent; Angy is a great actress and has done marvelous roles; and I, well, I think I have met expectations and have passed many years, I already have a 35-year career,” he adds. the actress who was forced to a withdrawal in 2018 following a theft accusation of which she was acquitted four years later.

His companion, La Gaviota —for the character he played in distilling love— stopped acting as a result of her marriage to then-governor and later Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, whom she divorced after completing her term. But so far, she has given no sign of wanting or trying to return to television.

Daniela, however, supposes that the return of both could benefit any future actress. “I think it is very important for the new generations, as we had it at the time; I was always lucky to have leading actresses in front of me and, sheltering me and I always received a shelter from these monsters of acting that makes you too , you learn.”