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Actress Ana María Orozco will reprise her role as Betty in the story.
“Yo soy Betty, la fea”, one of the most popular Colombian telenovelas in television history, will be re-broadcast next year with a new story.
Ana María Orozco and Jorge Enrique Abello, the protagonists of the original telenovela, will once again play Betty and Armando in the new version, 20 years after their marriage began in the telenovela.
Amazon Prime Video announced that the series, co-produced with Estudios RCN de Colombia, will premiere on its direct-to-stream service in more than 240 countries and territories around the world.
“This bet is the evolution of the most successful telenovela in Latin America for distribution and a digital market,” said Alexander Marín, RCN’s vice president of sales, in a statement.
According to Guinness World Records, the original “I’m Betty the Ugly” is the highest-grossing soap opera in history.
Not only has it been broadcast in hundreds of countries and dubbed into 15 languages, but it has also been adapted in various territories including the United States, India and South Africa.
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Actors Jorge Enrique Abello and Ana María Orozco in 2002 during an awards ceremony.
20 years later
Beatriz Pinzón Solano was a brilliant economist with a master’s degree in finance who had one “fault”: she was ugly.
When she starts working at the company Emoda as an assistant to the manager Armando Mendoza, she not only falls in love with him, but also tries to become a successful and desirable woman in order to win his love.
That was the plot of the soap opera that premiered in 1999.
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The news of Betty’s return was met with great interest.
This time, Betty will be a confident woman and business leader, albeit with new family challenges.
Betty is still married to Armando, but she is struggling to rebuild her relationship with Mila, her teenage daughter.
At the same time he will try to cope with the crisis of the family business while wondering if the decision she made two decades ago makes her truly happy.
“‘Yo soy Betty, la fea’ had a healthy energy and the tremendous impact this character had on conventional beauty codes, which explains why it became a global franchise that all women could relate to,” said Francisco Morales, the Prime is leading Video’s content and acquisition strategy for Latin America, in a statement.
Mauricio Cruz Fortunato, whose works include Café con Aroma de Mujer, 2020, is directing the new series and the story was written by Marta Beoldi, Juan Carlos Pérez and César Betancur.
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