One of the most popular characters in soap operas is the villain called Soraya Montenegro, played by actress Itatí Cantoral when she was 19 years old in María la del Barrio, starring Thalía.
Then she was starting out in the entertainment industry, so she agreed to the requests of director Beatriz Sheridan, such as in the “damned cripple” scene, one of the most remembered of the project and of her career.
Cantoral could not get home after 2 in the morning, so before the call at 7 in the morning he stayed with Fabiola Campomanes.
When she arrived at door 1 of Televisa with the same miniskirt that she went to the nightclub in the night before, she felt “that everything shakes and you say ‘don’t do it again’”, because it was “live” and “raw” for the party.
This is how Itatí Cantoral recorded the famous scene of Soraya Montenegro
Even though it has a long duration, it was done without cuts and in a single take. “I didn’t even have the power of interpretation,” Cantoral said in an interview with Yordi Rosado. However, that day the technicians applauded him.
Sheridan asked him to imitate her and gave him instructions, such as burying a pair of scissors in ‘Nandito’s arm. “If he gave his opinion, they would take me out,” she added, arguing that no one present thought that the recording would become iconic.
“The only thing I remember is that Emilio Azcárraga came down from the visits and ‘El Tigre’ for us was like the maximum law, who also had a personality of the few men that when you see them they do impose on you,” she said, because upon seeing her she asked from her and thanks to that he found out what her name was.
Itatí had “an energy that I wouldn’t have right now,” because she has tried to recreate it as similar as possible and “it doesn’t come out.” Although at first she was angry at not being recognized for other things, she changed her attitude and learned to laugh at herself. “I felt very grateful and I enjoyed it a lot.”
The changes of Itatí Cantoral to become Soraya Montenegro
Despite being 19 years old, Itatí says that Soraya looks 30. This was achieved thanks to the fact that the actress had a mole and that they cut and changed the look of her hair “about 5 times.”
Neither she nor her mother liked the result, but she couldn’t do anything because she wanted to be part of history. “I was nobody next to Thalía (…) which at that time was her trilogy because she had broken records, she was the most watched protagonist in this country.”
2023-11-12 00:26:28
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