She plays Pía Adarre in ‘La Promesa’, which broadcasts La 1 de TVE in the afternoon, whose character keeps a “terrible secret”
Actress María Castro (Vigo, 41 years old) takes on the role of an honest but demanding housekeeper, who returns to everyday fiction with ‘La Promesa’, a series broadcast from Monday to Friday on La 1 (4:30 p.m.) Set in 1913, it tells the story of Jana (Ana Garcés), who starts working in the palace to avenge her mother’s murder and uncover the identity of her stolen brother. Castro gives life to Pía Adarre, an impeccable woman in her responsibilities, who keeps a “horrific secret” that will carry her through the season.
-What ingredients does ‘The Promise’ have to captivate you?
-It is set in 1913 and I think what excites you fundamentally, besides the beautiful aesthetics of Bambú Producciones that come to mind, is that it has plots that are rare in daily series, because they are completely changeable. I, as a reader of scripts to interpret them later, am always surprised by what I receive. There are new characters all the time, things that seemed to happen one way happen another way. That will hook people to the chair. There are many ins and outs behind the characters house and secrets.
-His plot in the series is very difficult and traumatic.
-I am the housekeeper of ‘La Promesa’ and I am responsible for the proper functioning of the house. I’m in the middle, I live downstairs and I work upstairs. I am very empathetic, although very demanding, I am the first. And let’s just say he’s keeping a horrifying secret from the first chapter that will drag him through part of the season. You will have to make the most important and vital decision of your life, especially in those days when nothing was known and everything was hidden. That this happened to him in those moments was a living death.
-How was it to come back with the Bambú team you already coincided with in ‘Seis Hermanas’?
-Yes, I met many colleagues from “Six Sisters” with whom I repeat and new ones. I always get great human surprises. There is a great atmosphere.
-That fiction was not very successful in the afternoon, but it did have some international repercussions afterwards.
-During the hearings, the truth is I don’t know because I got pregnant in the second season and they were able to adapt my character, which I will appreciate because it doesn’t always happen in this world. I remember it with a great taste in my mouth, I don’t know if it’s in numbers because I don’t pay much attention to the data when the series is renewed. I think it’s important that it has quality and that I get up enthusiastically to get to work. We made a great group of friends and I had my doubts, because sometimes working with six actresses at the same time, with a rhythm that sometimes stresses you out, can cause problems. Nothing happened.
-What’s the difference between ‘The Promise’ and ‘Six Sisters’?
-Time is the same. In ‘Seis Hermanas’ the service part was not so present and in ‘The Promise’ there are two worlds. They seem like two different series. Everything is more comical at the bottom and more ancestral, more classicistic above. I think people will really like that contrast.
-What do you have to say to those who accuse this new series of being a copy of the hit ‘Downton Abbey’?
-I haven’t actually seen ‘Downton Abbey’ because I don’t have much time and don’t watch much television. Yes, I’ve heard people say we can be similar, but if we’re comparable with a series with so many episodes made, with so much audience and so valuable, then the comparisons are blessed.
-Also appears in ‘Machos Alfa’. What about experience in comedy?
-I loved it, I laughed out loud like not long ago. It was a lot of fun to record it, also with Gorka Otxoa, who already has a contract to record together, because we also did theater (laughs). We miss ‘The Promise’.
-He also does theater, along with this daily series. When do you have time to study your characters?
I don’t study at home. I still don’t know how I do it. I study on the journeys home and back, because when you’re a mother you have nothing else. Or for example at lunchtime, because I only eat for half an hour and the rest to study. When I put the girls to bed too, well, with the cell phone under the light, reading the script. My condition for doing a daily series is to keep my mind awake and active so that I can study without taking too much time out of my daily life.
Source: La Verdad
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