Candela Peña has proven to be a great professional with her role in the series El Caso Asunta. Last Friday, April 26, the streaming platform Netflix published the fiction ”based on real events”, which narrates the crime that ended the life of little Asunta Basterra in Galicia in 2013.
After a harsh legal process, the girl’s parents were sentenced to 18 years in prison. It should be noted that at no time did they acknowledge responsibility for the events and that, while Alfonso Basterra (the father) is still serving his sentence in prison, his wife (Rosario Porto) committed suicide in 2020.
During the promotion of the series, Candela Peña has made it clear that bringing Porto to life has been one of the most difficult challenges of her professional career, since she is a woman full of nuances and contradictions.
The hard work that Peña did has borne fruit, since the series has become a phenomenon in our country and is already the most viewed fiction on the audiovisual platform.
Social networks have been filled with positive comments about the work of the Catalan, whom many have baptized as ”the Spanish Meryl Streep”. It should be noted that, in addition to her great talent and the dedication she has put into this work, the makeup and hairdressing team has managed to make the resemblance between Porto and Peña chilling.
Something that has caught the attention of fans and the press in general is that the actress is publishing many of the criticisms on her social networks, as well as personally answering some questions and comments from her fans through X ( formerly known as Twitter) and Instagram.
Among the different messages that can be read on networks, some stand out that defend that Peña is considered a comedy actress and that this is unfair if we take into account her skill in a true crime such as The Asunta case.
A young fan named Miguel has written his opinion on the subject in Faced with this statement, Peña has ignored the compliment and has responded bluntly: ”What you are not used to is seeing my work. “I do very little comedy.”
