"The Venom has possessed me"

Veneno

ends its journey on Atresplayer Premium with the intention of attracting new viewers on Antena 3. This Sunday the series on the life of Cristina Ortiz (1964-2016), an involuntary trans icon and television celebrity in the 90s, will say goodbye with its eighth and last chapter in the Atresmedia payment platform.

On the same day and in

, the first two episodes will be broadcast free.

It's going to be a bombshell.

If on the platform it has already been, imagine what it can achieve in the open ", assures EL MUNDO Isabel Torres, one of the three trans actresses who play La Veneno in the different stages of her life together with Daniela Santiago and Jedet.

“At an international level, people from Mexico, Peru, Panama, Argentina, Chile write to me.

It's incredible where the series is getting, "adds Torres,

she suffers.

"In six months I'm evolving very well," acknowledges the actress, who last March, and shortly after

premiered

, shared her health with the media.

«The initial tumor in the lung is already a residual and I only have a couple of cells left in the pleura and in the bronchus, and they are going to give me radiotherapy next week.

The metastasis, which was in stage four, has all cleared from my body.

So I'm very happy, "says the actress, who

.

Known for being the first transsexual candidate for carnival queen in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the cover of

and on television, Torres plays La Veneno in her more mature stage.

To get into her skin,

, and changed her Canarian accent for the particular diction of Cristina, a native of the Almeria town of Adra.

“I had to create something credible, not make a copy or a cartoon.

Imagine, the gay public, which is the most critical, if you do something wrong they can waste you ", he laughs while assuring that the physical transformation was not the most complicated part.

«There are several hard moments because I play a very emotional part of Cristina.

I have to convey his emotional deficiencies, the abandonment and the contempt he suffered.

That roller coaster that was his life, in recent years, leaving the bad to return to the good, where he always wanted to be.

And then having the misfortune of dying, "he explains about

.

"Without spoilers, the Javis have created such a beautiful fantasy that people are going to be very surprised," he adds.

Thanks to all this effort and the support of the creators, the aforementioned Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, Torres says he is "very happy with the result."

So much so that now it is difficult for him to leave the character.

"She has possessed me, I say," he assures, using Cristina's usual expression.

"By working so hard on her

, seeing her life and how tragic it was, getting into her pain and learning to love her through her wounds,

" says Torres , which recognizes sharing vital experiences with the irreverent star.

"Almost all transgender women have the feeling of having experienced similar situations regardless of the circumstances and environment we have," says Torres.

«

.

Life is not easy for us and society has always been in charge of relegating us to the underground.

But we are human beings, we feel and suffer like any other human being, and that is what people have to see and are seeing in this series, "says the actress.

Torres believes that Cristina did not pretend to be an LGTBI reference.

But thanks to her overwhelming personality, and a perfect mix of incorrectness and honesty, she managed to make the reality of trans women visible thanks to her television appearances on

and

.

"

.

And we see that in the 30-year-old generation, and there I include Valeria Vegas », she says about the friend and biographer of La Veneno, played in the series by Lola Rodríguez and one of the main axes of the narrative.

«These young people adore Cristina because they saw in her the path they had to trace in their lives, that there was something more than the canons of man or woman, and that is extremely important.

Without wanting to, he became a benchmark, "he concludes.

ATRESMEDIA

Speaking of the situation of trans people in Spain, who currently suffer unemployment rates of over 80%, Torres considers that, as a society, we have come a long way, but still «

, that we are seen in normal jobs and we are not relegated to marginalization, "he concludes.

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