Fans of Vicente Fernandez worldwide will be able to see a series based on his life starring Jaime Camil as the music icon via Netflix, Deadline has learned.
The news arrives on the heels of Fernandez’s death last week at age 81.The project, titled The Idol of the People, is a Caracol TV production and will air on that Colombian television network.
Netflix has taken world rights to the series outside of Colombia, sources said.Camil has spoken at length on social media about how honored he is to play Chente, a shortened version of the name Vicente that served as one of his many monikers.“Portraying Vicente Fernandez, without a doubt, is one of the biggest and most important challenges of my career,” he wrote in Spanish via Instagram in
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