Actors Ariel López Padilla and Lupita Ferrer during the recording of the Telemundo telenovela Pecados ajenos in 2007 (Photo: Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images).
“I’m probably the last survivor of this golden cycle that was the Venezuelan soap opera,” specified Lupita Ferrer in the summer of 2022, the year he surprised the show with his autobiography. But he cannot be classified in the television history of his home country. His career, which began in the late 1960s, was recognized throughout Latin America thanks to his works from Argentina, Peru, the United States, Spain and of course Mexico.
Throughout her career, she has played various roles in both television and films – an innocent poor friend, a tender mother, naïve and loving wives – but her villains on the small screen are the most well-known in Cristal, Pecados ajenos, Rosalinda, to name but a few to name a few. There’s a nine-minute or so compilation of his best slaps on YouTube, and it’s not like we encourage physical aggression, but boy did he know how to put his hand on his rivals.
Although he moved away from Mexico almost two decades ago to continue his international expansion and now to take care of his mother (she died in 2021). returns to the country with intentions of joining something big, “one of those good, dramatic projects, one of those you like and so do I”.
Lupita Ferrer was approached upon arrival at Mexico City Airport. The reporters recognized her and didn’t hesitate to give her a warm welcome, pimp her up and keep asking questions about her visit. Surprised, she does not hide her joy. “It’s an honor, a pleasure, I’m amazed. I didn’t expect it Happy! Happy, excited to set foot in Mexico again, so many memories!”
The Bad Girls by Father Méndez with David Reynoso, The Oldest Trade in the World with Maricruz Olivier, The Cynical with Rodolfo de Anda, The Bed with Mauricio Garcés, The Useless Life of Pito Pérez with Ignacio López Tarso, A Makelless Quixote with Mario Moreno , Cantinflas, are part of those memories.
In fact, he admits that he was always aware of Lopez Tarso’s love affairs with his companions, but he never crossed that line with her. The same cannot be said of any other great. “It is known that all Mexicans are very flirtatious (…) Cantinflas that one flirted with me; dinner, dinner, dinner at the Rioma restaurant, which I think is still on Avenida de los Insurgentes,” admits he.
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But many years have passed since then. This time she was invited by Nicandro Díaz, producer of such hits as I am your Owner, Distilling love, The Mexican and the Gringo, and who recently concluded My path is to love you. The project? “I don’t know, if I go to Televisa they will tell me.”
The Rose Diamond actress is clear about who she would like to work with. “There are so many good actresses: I would love Cynthia Klitbo, with Laura Zapata – a very good, strong actress –, Angélica María, I would like to go back to work, and with any of the young Mexican actresses, of which there are so many , so many that, I don’t know, I don’t know exactly what’s being done in Mexico”.
Lupita Ferrer in Miami in 2019. (Photo by John Parra/Getty Images)
Would you do an antagonism again? She doesn’t really like the idea of being the villain in the story. “But why do they want to put me in the role of a villain, from ‘Doña Ágata’ with the slaps? (his character in Pecados ajenos)“.
Or maybe like “Valeria del Castillo,” the possessive mother in Rosalinda, a telenovela considered one of Televisa’s most expensive productions and one of its best-selling, distributed in 135 countries.
Ferrer says this was his last major project in Mexico, aside from Thalia (and the Mexican’s last melodrama). “Bella, the experience is beautiful. What happened is that she fell madly in love with this man (Tommy Mottola) and left everything. I don’t know, women sometimes lose their heads.”
In anticipation of what can happen with Díaz and Televisa, the actress is also pinning her hopes on the theater, where she has also tried her hand. “I have finished a season of Casa de muñecas part two, a classic work, very beautiful, which I hope I can bring here and hopefully it will be presented to me soon, Virgin of Guadalupe! I beg you, a project of those are great things to do in Mexico.”
Or maybe it’s a bioseries based on her book Lupita Ferrer Naked. In August 2022, he said his representatives were in talks and expressed a desire for the production to be Mexican. “I would love it if it could be done in Mexico, a country that I love so much and that has had to do with part of my career.”
We have to wait.