Enrique Rocha, the villain par excellence of Mexican soap operas, died this Sunday naturally, it was reported in Mexico. He was 81 years old.
Known in Latin America for his antagonistic roles in soap operas such as “El privilegio de amar” and “Las vias del amor”, he played the role of bad guy in at least fourteen Mexican productions.
Other titles in which he participated are “I buy that woman”, “Two women, one way”, “Rebel”, “Wild heart”, “A lucky family”, “True love” and “I plead guilty”, among other
“The man was in very good health, he had no precedent, everything happened very quickly and naturally,” said Oscar Espejer, close to the family, quoted by the newspaper El Universal.
Rocha was born on January 5, 1940 in Silao, in the state of Guanajuato, and in addition to his performances he stood out for the unmistakable voice that characterized him.
He began his career in the soap opera “La mentira”, in 1965. Prior to that, eHe was studying architecture when he discovered by chance his passion in acting with the staging of the play “Hamlet”.
“There was a director named Juan José Gurrola, and then one day an actor was absent, I often went to see the rehearsals, and Gurrola told me: – let’s see boy, come on, get on stage for a moment …”, he said to the Dominican journalist Tony Dandrades in an interview for Univisión.
Although he was a malon of melodramas, in reality he was a poet, a seducer, a great conqueror whose voice made beautiful women fall in love, most of them younger than him.
“There is no formula for conquest (…) Conquest consists in knowing what she is like or what she wants. It is nice to say a poem to a woman and I imagine that the woman will also feel flattered if you tell her a poem by Pablo Neruda or a love poem by Borges ”, he even told Dandrades.
He was also a lover of bohemia, of life, which in the end did not change it for acting: “Life interests me more than career, life interests me more than theater, I am not one of those who say that for me the theater is everything, there is no applause, but there is tenderness, there is love, there is friendship, there is joy, not in theater, you make it up “.
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