If you live in Los Angeles you may drive by a city bus that’s wrapped with a Telemundo’s telenovela ad for La Reina del Sur marking the return of telenovela-veteran-turned-American-film-actress, Kate del Castillo. She’s sort of like fellow Latina actor Sofia Vergara, except Kate doesn’t do funny sexpot roles, can speak English without the over-the-top Spanish accent, and she plays dramatic roles with ease.
Growing up with my Mexican mother who avidly watched Sabado Gigante and telenovelas, there was no doubt that I had Kate del Castillo’s face imprinted in my memory despite my loathing of telenovelas. The hardworking actress crossed over to American films co-starring with Jennifer Lopez in Bordertown, in the tearjerker Spanish-flick released in American theaters, La Misma Luna, and with Tilda Swinton in Julia. She also made American television appearances as a drug dealer in HBO’s Weeds.
Kate del Castillo’s return to telenovelas is going to be epic because she plays Teresa Mendoza, a drug lord based on Spanish author Arturo Pérez Reverte. Her character is the next target of enemy drug cartels whom have already killed her boyfriend, Güero Davila. She flees her Mexican town to the Costa del Sol in Spain to devise her plan to to become a big time Cocaine Queen of a drug empire that spans three continents.
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