Lydia Bosch (el Prat del Llobregat, 1963) returns to television with MÃa es la venganza, the new daily series that arrives on Telecinco on Monday 12th from 3.45 p.m., just before Sálvame, which reduces its duration two weeks earlier to say goodbye Created by Aurora Guerra ( Escándalo, relato de una obsesión ), the series has as its main setting the facilities of an exclusive sports club, Los Olivos, whose owner is Sonia Hidalgo, an energetic woman haunted by a tragedy in past and who will be crossed by a young man in search of revenge.
What attracted you to MÃa la venganza and Sonia Hidalgo for this return to television?
First, the plot that creator Aurora Guerra explained to me. And then, Sonia seemed to me to be a powerful, empowered woman who is not the typical character who depends on a male role. She is a woman deeply wounded by an event in the past and this causes her to transform into another hard and cold woman, who puts on a breastplate, who puts her head before her heart and cannot stand any betrayal. And when he sniffs it or gets it done to him, he is able to cross limits that no normal person would cross.
Is Sonia the victim of the revenge referred to in the title or is she the one who will execute it?
A priori, Sonia is a victim. A person will appear, named Mario, who comes to take revenge for a tragic accident that took place 20 years ago. But what happens in the series is that, although this is the starting revenge, many other characters could be attributed to the phrase of the title, because they all have secrets that will be revealed throughout the series. And there will come a time when the revenges are intertwined because, when someone feels hurt, they also want to take revenge on the person who is hurting them.
Are all the revenges justified, or at least the ones we will see in the series?
Each character has their reason for wanting to exercise it. The thing is that it is not known to what extent each person’s reason is true or not. But, a priori, everyone acts because they really think that what they are doing is what is right.
In addition to these components of revenge and secrets, what other soap opera elements does this new daily series have?
It is a quintessential colebrot, but not in a pejorative way. And what’s more, it’s a very solid and very consistent colebrot. It has classic elements, like possible and impossible loves 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’s also a bit of comedy that eases the tension a bit.
How is the experience of filming a daily series?
Sonia Hidalgo and MÃa es la venganza is the hardest job I’ve had in the workplace, because doing one every day is an absolute commitment. You have to forget about your life, hobbies, family reconciliation… It’s living only for the series. Every night you have to study the seven sequences that you play for the next day. And then, as an actress, Sonia is a character who is always emotionally on edge, even if she sometimes doesn’t show it. Physically I resented it, because it’s like when you do a race and you go out for a run and when the race is over, your body is still tired and out of breath. Therefore, with a character like this, with anxiety attacks and crying, and with what you shoot every day, you have no respite. For this reason he is one of the hardest characters I have done in my career.
Daily series have long been viewed with some disdain by the guild.
Yes, it was like before the film actor and the TV actor, in which it seemed that the second was the younger brother of the first and had the least prestige. Fortunately, that idea has now changed. The same thing happens with the daily series, and I think that MÃa es la venganza will help to consolidate once and for all the error of the treatment that has been given to them. I can tell you as an actress that for years, when I was offered a daily series, I said that I 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 must know the implication it entails… But a daily series is no longer the younger brother of a prime time series. And, in addition, it tends to have many more and more loyal viewers.
