‘Señorita 89’ Showrunner Lucia Puenzo: ‘Beauty is, Without Doubt, an Excuse to Talk About Other Things
variety.comteaser trailer last December and a full trailer in January.These anticipate how the series will peel away the glamour and seeming paradise of La Encantada, where 32 contestants are groomed to compete for the 1989 Miss Mexico beauty pageant, to reveal its circles of hell.
The full trailer also served to confirm the first season’s protagonists: Dolores, Miss Guerrero, with a perfect body and drug dependency; Jocelyn, Miss Chihuahua, who’s sister goes missing; Angeles, Miss Oaxaca, a single mom; Isabel, Miss Yucatan, educated and with big business ambitions; Concepción, La Encantada co-director; and Elena, La Encantada culture teacher.Here, Puenzo speaks for the first time in detail about one of the most anticipated premium TV series from Latin America.Episodes 1, 2 and 3 tell the stories of Elena, Miss Chihuahua and Miss Oaxaca.
Why this structure?It’s women who tell this story. A group of anonymous girls, four “Misses” who come from different corners of México with the dream of rising up from their hometowns to gain that very tiny place only reserved for a few.
Girls who at first hardly look at each other, or if they do it’s with suspicion or envy… and who in those final months of training before the election of Miss México will be transformed into products for exhibition, negotiation and exchange in the worlds of media and politics.
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