Candela Peña has become the absolute protagonist of the social conversation in recent days. While Pedro Sánchez kept the country in suspense, reflecting on whether or not to leave the presidency of the government, Netflix premiered the series The Asunta Case, which is based on the crime that ended the life of little Asunta Basterra Porto in 2013.
After a harsh legal procedure, the teenager’s parents were sentenced for murder to 18 years in prison. Alfonso Basterra is still in prison today, but Rosario Porto committed suicide in her cell in 2020.
In the fiction, which is already the most viewed on the streaming platform in Spain and in the top 10 of countries such as the United Kingdom, Argentina or Israel, Peña plays the character of Rosario Porto, a woman with a strong character who presents all kinds of contradictions and a peculiar personality.
In each and every one of the interviews she has done to promote the work, the Catalan actress has acknowledged that Porto has been her biggest professional challenge to date and that she has had to work harder than ever, since getting into the skin of the Galician required a lot of concentration.
In one of the promotional interviews he has done for Cadena Ser, Peña has declared that playing Rosario Porto has changed him forever: ”Especially in the trials, the prejudices, the responsibility that I would now stop to take as much as people as a society, to how we react to a case like Asunta or Sancho, for example.”
”As a society, I think we should be responsible and (understand) that not even the worst act a person does defines a person,” the artist declared, implying that both Porto and Sancho are much more than what they did and who also have a series of circumstances and life experiences that cannot be ignored.
While different users on the Internet have praised Peña’s sincerity and his maximum empathy after putting himself in the shoes of Asunta Basterra’s mother, many others have defined his words in said intervention as ”whitewashing” of these figures.
”I like Candela Peña, but please don’t let her enter into the whitewashing of Daniel Sancho because it is not normal”, ”And the victim? She is always the great forgotten one. I haven’t seen anyone talk about the girl” or ”But without crossing the line of whitewashing certain behaviors” are some of the comments about the interview that can be read on TikTok.
