He March 25, 1998 premiered in Antenna 3 ‘Companions‘, the day the doors of the azcona school for the audience to whom they marked for 9 seasons. The cast of the series premiered with some well-known faces such as Concha Velasco, Tina Sainz, Francis Lorenzo, María Garralón or Miguel Rellán, who played the adults of fiction.
While the students were incarnated by more unknown names at the time, such as Eva Santolaria, Antonio Hortelano, Virginia Rodríguez, Lara de Miguel or a very young Daniel Retuerta or Clara Lago. Although they soon became the most famous names of the moment since their success was enormous among the young and not so young.
Now, 25 years later this generation continues to remember the love of Quimi and Valle, the adolescent protagonists of ‘Compañeros’ who were played by Eva Santolaria and Antonio Hortelano.
Because of his birthday a meeting has been held in style where many of the cast and crew have gathered from the series. “25 years ago the series ‘Compañeros’ began and yesterday we met once more with more than 70 people: actors, scriptwriters, technical team…”, wrote the director, producer, scriptwriter Manuel Ríos San Martín along with a photo where some of the actors appear .
In addition, Eva Santolaria, Raúl Peña, Duna Jové, Nicolas Belmonte or Cristina Peña have published some selfies that were taken during the meeting.
While Daniel Retuerta, who played Lolo, the little one in the series, has uploaded a photo gallery of the night to his Instagram account: “About tonight. #compañeros25aniversario. Well yes. We have gathered a few. Many. And It’s been great. These are some of the photos I’ve taken during this reunion (I’m sure you’ll see others on other people’s profiles). A special night where there are. Thank you @virpink for organizing.”
Also, in the video above you can see how we first met the actors in ‘Compañeros’.
