For some weeks now the soap opera ‘Aurora’s Angel‘ Monday to Friday at 4:30 p.m. The Starsa story that relies on traditional melodrama and seeks to thrill viewers with these ingredients. “Since the producer Roy Rojas He contacted me about two years ago and said ‘I want to write a novel, but one of the classic ones, the ones we grew up with, with all the ingredients that happened in those novels’ and I thought it was fantastic,” he says. Rafael Novoaone of the protagonists of the production of Televisa-Univision.
“I think Roy put all the necessary ingredients in place to make the melodrama work, because it is a melodrama, we are not inventing anything here, we are using the tools or elements that have been available and that have worked in different productions, and Roy “They have been linking them to this story. In Colombia we call this a soap opera, which means that it goes one way, then the other and everything happens to the characters,” adds the Colombian.
A character with nuances
In this story, Rafael Novoa He plays Julius Caesar, a character who will be full of surprises, because although he carries the terrible loss of his wife and son in the past, he also has touches of an antagonist that can confuse the viewer. “I’ve heard people say ‘the villain that Rafael is playing is interesting’ and I say ‘is he really a villain or not?’. Like the saying ‘confuse and you will reign’,” he adds.
The actor shares that to build his character, the producer asked him to get women to notice him and say ‘what a cool, funny, special guy’, and to achieve this he had to find the humanity of the character so that the audience would identify with him in one way or another.
“At first, the character is presented as a good guy who has suffered a tragedy in his past, and in the present he is trying to find himself again, to give himself a new chance both in love and in his personal and sentimental life, and in terms of his relationship with his son. There may be circumstances that generate a bit of doubt as to whether the character is good or bad, but I can’t say absolutely anything because that will be decided directly by the scriptwriters,” he emphasizes.
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Yes ok Novoa He had already had roles in Mexican soap operas such as ‘Tomorrow is forever‘ and ‘Cape‘This is the first time that he has been involved in a project from start to finish. Thus, the Colombian defines ‘Aurora’s Angel‘ as an adventure, in which Julius Caesar has to conquer the protagonist played by Natalia Esperón.
“The problem is that I don’t even know if I’m staying with her, that’s the good thing. Surely they will make the decision about what they want to do with the character of Aurora, who is the central axis of the whole story and we all revolve around her, as to the loss of her son, the reunion with him and what that represents, but there is also her past where Antonio is involved (Jorge Salinas), and at present Julius Caesar and he, who are charming, each in his own way and style.”
Open to challenges
Over a little over 20 years of experience, Novoa has starred in important Colombian soap operas such as ‘The Juanas‘, ‘Thoroughbred‘ and ‘Open heart‘, which later had their version in our country. Through them, Rafael earned himself the title of soap opera heartthrob, which can sometimes be a burden when actors are pigeonholed. Precisely, in recent years, the Bogotá native has explored series and films, but regardless of the genre, he assures that his interest is “to seek to contribute more and more to what can be my structure as a career and as a professional.”
“I have worked in series, soap operas, films, theatre, and in all of them you have to act no matter what. I don’t know why sometimes they say ‘I only make films’ or ‘I only make series, I don’t make soap operas’. Why are you going to look at soap operas like that? It is a genre that we have to be very grateful for because it is part of our culture, we grew up with them. […] I like to have my feet on the ground and look out at the world from there, but I don’t like looking at the world from above, floating there and at any moment you can fall flat on your face,” she dismisses the detractors of soap operas.
“Nowadays there is a huge amount of supply, there are platforms with all kinds of content, with series, and the soap opera as such, suddenly many people started to look down on it and that can’t be the case, it has to be looked after, preserved and maintained because it must continue and must be maintained even if new proposals come along to tell new stories,” he points out.
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