Actress Marisol Santacruz during the presentation of Atayde Hermanos’ Circo Ventura in 2019 (Photo: Medios y Media/Getty Images).
If marisol santacruz After becoming Face of the Herald at the age of 15, fame was almost a gift to her: recognition by the newspaper El Heraldo helped her to get commissions for various advertising campaigns (such as those for Superior Beer, later “La Rubia Superior” and “La Rubia de Categoría ’) and later switched to television in prime-time soap operas (Reaching for a star, Cañaveral de pasiones, Alma rebelde). Between a youthful villain, a sickly young woman or an imaginary mother, sometimes as a comedian, The actress has been a constant on the small screen.
until it disappeared.
Officially, Marisol made her last appearances in the soap opera Libre para amarte with Gloria Trevi and in the film El sacristán in 2013. A year later, she was a special guest on the comedy show Estrella2, and after that her presence faded.
In 2017, TV Notas magazine ran an article stating that the actress committed to attending a beauty clinic, investing “all her life savings” that she lost as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. During this time, Marisol has gradually played with a few series and unit programs again, hoping to return to a soap opera soon.
Besides his business Cruz focused on a more intimate project: raising his son Luis Miguelwhich is why he decided to forget about the forums.
“I love acting, I love my job, theater, television, I grew up there, I love a career that I love very much and I love it, but I’ve had to prioritize life and the way I seeing how the maturity of people is prioritized and I had the opportunity to be able to stop and devote myself a little more to my son (…), I wanted to be with my baby,” the model also tells journalist Inés Moreno.
The desire to be by her son’s side also arose from the experience of other classmates and her own when she heard the demands of these other children and the absence of their parents. “(I said to myself) ‘What would I have wanted? My mother was waiting for me with the hot soup. I was always looking for my mother and she wasn’t there,’ she said.
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An operation on her little one, which she was unable to accompany him to, led her to make the final decision, but also questioned whether it was the right thing to do. “As a mother you have to be, we divide into a thousand and we want to be with the son, with the husband, with the dog, that’s how we are, but at some point I didn’t feel able to be everywhere, (But) I’m doing the soap opera of my life and I’m very happy“.
Marisol Santacruz on the red carpet of Cirque Música Querida in 2022. (Photo by Medios y Media/Getty Images)
The Years of Glory
Luis de Llano was the first producer to bring her to the small screen, making her debut in Reaching for a Star with Mariana Garza and Eduardo Capetillo. It was followed by Trapped with Ernesto Alonso, the telenovela gentleman, Valentín Pimstein “called me ‘mijita’ and scolded me,” and Emilio Larrosa, with whom he had a little friction (probably because he dyed his hair brown) or what he now says considers it a hesitation on his part.
“One day he said to me: ‘Miss, I don’t like you … but you work very well’. Maybe he wanted to tell me the second thing, but at first it was a joke, and the truth is that the producers forced me have,” he recalls.
Perhaps because of that joke, he grew out of the rebel reputation he’d built up and he was right for it, given that he was known as “the superior blond” and so ingrained the stereotypes of the last century. “I was very rebellious because I’m very professional, rebellious in that there was a novel where we were all fair and I said, ‘No, I want to brown my hair because if we want everyone to be fair…’ , the characters must be different”.
And like any aspiring young woman, her ego took over when the mighty Emilio Azcárraga mentioned a project that seemed destined for her: Marisol, produced by Juan Osorio. “When they started writing it, the guy told me they were going to be casually writing a soap opera called Marisol, and I told him, ‘well, what a lovely novel!’ I’ve already done it, and if you someone like that says it. .. I don’t know why did they take it from me? Erika Buenfil was the protagonist of this story.
But the role she remembers most was Carita de ángel, starring Daniela Aedo as a child star. The girl gave life to ‘Dulce María’ who had lost her mother Angélica (Cruz) and thanks to her imagination she came to life and talked to her, who advised her and told her wonderful stories.
“I experienced it as a protagonist because I had to go on tour, to China and everywhere, because the girl couldn’t go because she was small,” she says.
Did you miss the lead? He rules it out completely. “I think you deserve recognition if you play a good role and people don’t forget you. I have fans in Brazil (thanks to Carita de ángel) because we did a great soap opera.”
Regarding her return, she returned to Televisa in recent days for a photo session and to update her status, knowing that young roles are no longer for her. “My training was ‘I don’t want to be the prettiest on the soap opera’, my training was ‘I want to be the best actress’ and whatever it has to be.”