The school for telenovela stars

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In 1987, broadcaster Televisa set up a drama school in Mexico City to train actors for its hugely popular telenovelas, Mexican soap operas. The Centro de Educación Artística became one of the most successful drama schools in Latin America. Rachel Naylor speaks to the founder and director, Eugenio Cobo, and one of its first students, Alexis Ayala. (Image: Eugenio Cobo. Credit: Televisa)

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0:00.0	A bomb whose creation would tip the scales of global power.
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0:10.0	The bomb, a podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:14.0	These are two available now.
0:22.0	Hello and thank you for downloading the witness history podcast
0:25.0	from the BBC World Service with me, Rachel Naylor.
0:28.0	This week we're bringing you stories about television from around the world.
0:31.0	Today I'm taking you back 35 years to the start of one of the most famous acting schools in Latin America.
0:37.0	The centre de Édicafion artistica in Mexico City.
0:41.0	I've been speaking to his founder and one of its first students.
0:45.0	It's 1987 and your genial cobble is working as a producer of telenovelas, Mexican soap operas.
0:52.0	But he's not really enjoying it.
0:54.0	He's precarious and his first love is acting.
0:57.0	He gets a call from a big boss at Tel Avisa,
1:00.0	the largest Spanish language broadcaster in the world.
1:03.0	They want him to head up a new drama school.
1:05.0	I was very grateful because I was doing a salary each 15 days.
1:11.0	When you are a producer, you earn salary once in a while.
1:15.0	Tel Avisa has been a great producer.
1:19.0	Tel Avisa has been churning out telenovelas for nearly 30 years.
1:23.0	But Los Rico's tambien yordan, the rich also cry,
1:26.0	had proved a standout hit internationally.
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