Eric del Castillo will return to Televisa after five years

Eric del Castillo will return to acting in soap operas after five years away from the small screen - two of them derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. He announced this day, he also affirmed that he will give life to a priest as he has done on other occasions.

The most recent soap opera in which Eric del Castillo participated was My husband has a family in 2017, a production that was in charge of Juan Osorio; on that occasion, the actor gave life to the father of the protagonist Julia, played by Zulia Vega.

This April 20, in an interview with the program Hoy, the actor said he was very happy to return to acting after the lockdown to prevent cases of coronavirus, although he did not say the name of the soap opera, he shared that the producer will be Carlos Moreno.

“Well, yes, the condemned pandemic that isolated us all in one way or another and now I am very happy because I am being offered to return to a soap opera with Mr. Carlos Moreno and it gives me great pleasure,” he explained on Televisa's morning.

Eric del Castillo said he will play a priest, this is not the first time he has given life to a religious leader. In 1963 he participated in the films Storm in the Ring and The Lord... Storm, in both he gave life to the Priest, also known as Mr. Storm himself.

As for soap operas, Eric del Castillo gave life to a priest in Lazos de amor (1995-1996); while in What Life Stole Me, he acted as Father Anselmo Quiñones.

In the conversation with the program Hoy, Eric revealed that the religious ordinance was about to direct his life, but he preferred soap operas and films. When questioned about his role, the 88-year-old actor answered the following:

“Well, he is a priest who has a very important story within the same plot and I have made several priests throughout my life and for a little while I am a priest myself because I was in the seminary, but I had to be an actor”.

In 2019, Eric del Castillo revealed to the portal Desde la Fe that he did begin his religious studies, after the death of his father, he attended high school at the Boarding School of the Marist Brothers in Mexico, and later entered the Mexican Seminary of Foreign Missions.

He had to leave that seminar for a health reason, since an “abusive big guy” immersed his head in a pool with contaminated water and that caused a severe infection in his eyes. After dropping out of religious training, he began studying acting at the Andrés Soler School of Dramatic Art at the suggestion of his mother.

In the interview with Hoy, the renowned first actor spoke about his daughter Kate del Castillo, to whom he already suggested to take a period of rest so that she does not wear out at work “It's a working machine and I already told her “Daughter, think about your life, get your things done, finally give yourself a vacation, a sabbatical year”, he said.

Eric del Castillo's participation in Televisa would mean that he reached a favorable agreement, because a couple of weeks ago, he revealed that the television station was not giving him the treatment he deserved.

“Times have changed, now I feel sorry to enter with a... I used to go in with my badge, now I have to queue up to get in and I don't like it, that we who have been more than 30 years, should have more attention with one”, he shared in his complaint.

The actor explained that his long career should be a “direct pass” to the installations and forums: “I would like to be respected or given a password or something to avoid queuing (...) Yes, I sucked myself here 30-something years,” he explained on April 5.

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