The plug
December 15, 2023, 9:52 am
Catherine Fulop and Carlos Mata in Let Yourself Want (1993) | Photo: imdb
The Venezuelan starred with her compatriot Carlos Mata in this soap opera on Argentine soil in 1993. At that time, she was breaking up with Fernando Carrillo and she didn't think she would have a crush on Ova Sabatini.
There was a time when Argentine screens were filled not with Turkish novels but with Argentine and Venezuelan novels. Among the stories that came from the Caribbean country, a brave man was “killed”: Carlos Matathe protagonist of Glass, The lady in pink And lady. While the actor fell in love with the audience, one of his compatriots was fascinated by her beauty and energy: Catherine Fulopthe protagonist of Abigail. The excitement of these Venezuelans was so evident that the producer Raul Lecouna He decided that the duo would be ideal to succeed in Argentina. That's how it was born Let yourself be lovedthe novel in which the actress met and fell in love Osvaldo Sabatini.
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When Carlos Mata received Lecouna's proposal, he already had contact with the country that invented dulce de leche. “When I was studying architecture and doing musical theater, I lived in a very large apartment that I rented and hosted two Argentinian brothers. After six months there were eleven of us, including people from Mendoza, Corrientes and Buenos Aires. At some point I had to ask permission to enter my house. There I discovered the music of SUI generis, from almond, from the greats of Argentine rock. When I arrived in the country I was already drinking mate,” he recalled on the show “Informed of Everything.”
The character of Mata became popular with the Channel 11 broadcast in 1987 Glass for the first time. Many teenage girls longed for this not very tall but gentlemanly-looking gallant, so much so that in 1992 Cris Morena I will take it with mePlay with meas a guest, where he sang:Let me try”with the bubbling grandstand at their feet.
Little by little we learned a little more about this actor, who got into acting almost by accident. “One day a friend from college asked me to accompany him to a casting for a rock musical. He took his test and I sat in the back of the theater. When the director saw me he said, 'Hey, you, the one with the long hair. 'Low'. These things you don't think about and I'm drowning. “He made me sing a song, he asked me to do an improv exercise (which was disastrous) and I agreed because he thought I had talent,” he said of his beginnings.
He made his debut on the small screen in 1985 with the soap opera Adriana. The incredible thing is that he refused to do television for many years. “They called me and I didn’t want to. The production of soap operas was viewed with great suspicion. I was from the theater floor and there were a lot of prejudices. The first time I agreed to write a novel was on a national broadcaster. I did it because I was going to lose my apartment. “I made a living in theater and wrote my college thesis,” he said.
A year after his television debut A 21-year-old woman from Caracas placed third as Miss Venezuela and began her career as an actress the following year., Catherine Amanda Fulop. Success was not long in coming, in 1988 she played the lead role in “Abigail” and two years later she married her co-star: Fernando Carrillo. The actress was successful in her country, the USA and Mexico, but she secretly I wanted to follow Grecia Colmenares' path and be a celebrity in Argentina.
If Mata and Colmenares shone on the screen, Raúl Lecouna was already the producer of the most successful novels behind the camera. It started with Master and Lord and continued with The Unfaithful, The Seer, Celeste, Black Pearl. Their suggestions were so attractive that Univision, the American television channel for Spanish speakers, made sure to include them in its programming. Aware of the two great contemporary figures and the impact they have had across the continent, decided to call on Venezuelans to do so Let yourself be loved.
Cathy Fulop and Ova Sabatini during their wedding | Photo: Infobae
At one of the previous meetings, Fulop was impressed by the beauty of an Argentine dark-haired man, Osvaldo Sabatini. “I watched him throughout the novel, but nothing ever happened I was in the process of ending a relationship and he had his stuff too. Besides my relationship being dead, I had to bury it. “You see when you watch over a dead person?” the actress said many years later TV show.
When we returned to the film set, there were looks, some smiles, but no progress. “The novel was already over, There were only a few chapters left and I said, “Oh my God, this guy!” At the end of one day I meet him in the hallway with my friend Alejandra Gavilanes and then I say to her, “Oh, how beautiful you are!” and my friend added, “She wants to give you a kiss.”', 'Well, 'Me too,' he said… and well, he gave me a kiss,' said the actress. At the end of the novel he always took her with him in his car because hers was broken and Cathy thought: “How wonderful it is to have children with this man!” Amused, she said that one of the reasons she fell in love with Ova was “the way she folded our clothes while we were undressing. But it wasn't until I saw him washing his underwear that I finally fell in love.”
So in love, Cathy called her mother in Venezuela and announced: “Do you know a tennis player named Gabriela Sabatini? He has a brother who is the father of your future grandson.” Before formalization, everyone determined their situation. They married in 1998 after she signed her divorce from Carrillo. Previously, on March 11, 1995, the Argentine gave her a diamond engagement ring.
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