Last Friday, April 26, Netflix premiered the fiction based on real events The Asunta Case. This project is based on the crime that ended the life of Asunta Basterra Porto, a 12-year-old girl who was murdered by her own adoptive parents in Galicia.
The events occurred in 2013 and, after a long and tedious legal procedure, the Court sentenced Alfonso Basterra and Rosario Porto to 18 years in prison. The Basque is still behind bars, but Porto could not hold out and committed suicide in 2020 in his cell. It should be noted that neither of the two has ever acknowledged responsibility for the crime.
Playing the girl’s parents was not an easy task, but the creators of the series trusted Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa for this task. Once the series was released, it can be confirmed that they were the ideal candidates, since social networks have been filled with positive reviews about their performance and experts have praised the commitment of both to the tense plot that they presented to viewers.
In the different interviews he has done to promote the project, Peña has revealed that the first time he put on Rosario Porto’s wig he couldn’t stop vomiting. The actress has also said that it is, without a doubt, the biggest acting challenge that she has faced throughout her career.
The magazine Lecturas has collected some statements from the Catalan artist in which she acknowledges that she was given two Galician linguists to achieve the correct accent and that this project has cost her ten months of her life during which she said goodbye to her family: ” “It was five months of preparation and five of filming.”
Candela Peña has declared that she was ”scared” of getting into the shoes of a mother who goes so far as to murder her own daughter. Furthermore, Porto was a woman full of contradictions who took medication to deal with different mental health problems, something not easy to convey on screen.
In an interview for Cadena Ser, the interpreter has admitted that now that she has gone through this process she has realized that as a society we should all be “more responsible” when we see this type of media trials, as well as understand that the The worst of a person’s actions does not have to define them.
