Lydia Bosch (El Prat del Llobregat, 1963) returns to television with MÃa es la venganza, the new daily series that lands on Telecinco next Monday starting at 3:45 p.m. and which means goodbye to Sálvame Limón two weeks ahead of schedule . Created by Aurora Guerra (Scandal, tale of an obsession), the series’ main setting is the facilities of an exclusive sports club, Los Olivos, owned by Sonia Hidalgo, an energetic woman haunted by a tragedy from the past, on whose way she a young man will cross in search of revenge.
What attracted you to MÃa la venganza and Sonia Hidalgo for this return to television?
First of all, the plot that the creator Aurora Guerra told me. And later, Sonia seemed to me to be a powerful, empowered woman and that she is not the typical character that depends on a masculine role. She is a woman deeply wounded by an event from the past and that makes her become another hard and cold woman, who puts on an armor, who puts her head before her heart and who does not support any betrayal. And when she smells it or they do it to her, she is able to cross limits that no normal person would.
Is Sonia the victim of the revenge to which the title refers or is she the one who is going to execute it?
A priori, Sonia is a victim. A person named Mario will appear who comes to take revenge for a tragic accident that happened 20 years ago. But what happens in this series is that, although that is the starting revenge, many other characters could attribute that phrase in the title to themselves because they all have secrets that will be revealed throughout the series. And there will come a time when revenge is intertwined because when someone feels hurt, you also want to take revenge on who is hurting you.
Are all the revenges justified or, at least, the ones that we will see in this series?
Each character has their reason for wanting to exercise it. What happens is that it is not known to what extent the reason of each one is true or not. But a priori each one acts because he really thinks that what he is doing is fair.
Apart from those components of revenge and secrets, what other soap opera elements does this new daily series have?
It is a soap opera par excellence, but said not in a pejorative way. And it is also a very solid and very coherent soap opera. It has classic elements such as possible and impossible love and betrayals, but it also has other very powerful and interesting parallel plots. Not everything is based on the main plot, unlike other series. And then there is also a part of comedy that relaxes the tension a bit.
How is the experience of filming a daily series being?
Sonia Hidalgo y MÃa es la venganza is the hardest job I’ve ever done at a professional level because doing one daily is absolutely implicated. You have to forget about your life, your hobbies, family reconciliation… It’s living for and for the series. Every night you have to study the seven sequences that touch you for the next day. And then, as an actress, Sonia is a character who is always emotionally on the edge, even though sometimes she doesn’t show it. Physically I have resented it because it is like when you do a race and you go for a run, that when the race is over, your body is still tired and short of breath. Well, with a character like this, with anxiety attacks and crying, and with whom you roll every day, you don’t have a breather. For this reason she is one of the toughest characters I’ve done in my career.
The daily series have long been viewed with some disdain by the guild.
Yes, it was like before the film and television actor in that it seemed that the second was the little brother of the first and had less prestige. Fortunately, that idea has already changed. The same thing happens with the daily series and I think that Mine is revenge is going to help to consolidate once and for all the error of the treatment that has been done to them. I tell you as an actress that for years, when they proposed a daily series to me, she said that she preferred one in prime time. Now I am lucky and proud to be able to say that I am in MÃa es la venganza and I am sure that more and more actors will want to participate in a daily series. Of course they have to know the implication that this entails… But a daily series is no longer the little brother of a prime time series. And also, it usually has many more viewers and more faithful.
