He is only 28 years old and just five and a few key roles have been enough for him to establish himself as one of the most popular young stars on Spanish television. But now and thanks to a series by Marc Cistaré, the same one who has put his signature to Los hombres de Paco, La vÃctima número 8 and some episodes of Vis a Vis, Claudia Salas (Madrid, 1994) has launched to conquer of new horizons.
The actress who became a star when she was hired to play Rebeka Parrilla in the second season of Elite, is now one of the protagonists of Las Pelotaris 1926, a co-production between The MediaPro Studio in Spain and the powerful conglomerate TelevisaUnivison, which emerged from the merger between the most important television company in Mexico, Televisa, and Univisión, the leading Spanish-language network in the United States, and whose programming on free-to-air channels in cities with a large Hispanic population such as Los Angeles, New York, Miami, or Chicago, many times outperforms traditional English-language networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox in ratings.
The eight-episode series in which MarÃa de Nati, Alejandra Onieva, Peter Vives and Jesús Castejón for Spain, the Mexican star Zuria Vega and actors from that country such as Marco de la O, Héctor Kotsifakis and Antonio Gaona, the Colombian Viviana also participate Serna and the Argentine David Chocarro, was one of the biggest bets this year for the Mexican-American company, which has come out to compete with Netflix, Amazon and Apple with its own platform, VIX. With 25 million subscribers using the basic ad-supported free option, its paid variant VIX aims to become the most ambitious platform for the global Spanish-speaking market, for which large budgets are inevitable.
Las Pelotaris 1926 recovers the history of Basque pelota players in the 1920s, who were great stars of the sport when that concept had not yet become popular. Salas embodies Idoia, the best player of her time willing to capitalize on the interest that businessmen had in these girls who excited the male audience who attended to watch the matches.
Totally determined to get rich, Idoia makes an agreement with a mafia boss to lend her money that she dreams of multiplying in bets when she loses to Itzi (De Nati), a lower-level player, without imagining that she will guess the trick and give her money. will force you to win the game, which will get you into a lot of trouble.
In an interview with the Golden Globes website, Claudia admitted that although in her private life she is very shy, she enjoys playing women who are not afraid of anything: “That is precisely why I dedicate myself to acting. When I started studying acting, I discovered that when I put myself in the shoes of a character, things came out that didn’t make me ashamed or scared, and that’s why I fell in love with the profession.”
Claudia Salas also pointed out that thanks to this character, who never hesitates before asking for fortunes for her services, she learned to negotiate better contracts: “The word ambition seems very interesting to me because I had its meaning completely distorted. For me, being ambitious meant being an authoritarian, individualistic person and without empathy, that the only thing that motivated her was wanting more and more”, she explained, to clarify later: “Now I know that being ambitious is wanting to improve your version every day and not for compete or to step on the other but for oneself. This was taught to me by Idoia in the same way that I discovered that the selfishness that she thought she had is actually coherence and honesty with herself.
The actress from Madrid also confessed that thanks to Las Pelotaris, 1926 has developed a beautiful relationship with Mexico, where part of the series was filmed and where she returned to carry out the promotion: “I had a crush on Mexico since I arrived. In fact, a very beautiful thing has happened to me, I was not at all aware of how important and what that country meant in my life until I returned to do the promotion. When I landed and got in the car, it was night and when I was back on the roads I realized that I was very happy there because Mexico began as a before and after on many emotional and personal levels. I think all of this was largely due to the people, it’s like being at your grandmother’s house all the time where you arrive and she puts you a blanket, she serves you soup, she asks you if you need anything else, she hugs you and caresses you, it’s a Wonderful,” she said excitedly.
