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Muneca Brava (Wild angel) - 1998



In the second half of year 1998 there was a new telenovela filmed called Casablanca with main characters portrayed by Natalia Oreiro and Leonardo Sbaraglia. The script writer and director was Rodolfo Ledo and telenovela was made for TeLeFe. The story was about a young poor girl working as a waitress who is searching for her happiness. Unfortunately after 22 filmed episodes the filming was stopped because producers feared that the story was not good enough to make hit. None of the episodes was ever broadcasted on TV.

However, Natalia did not hesitate; she contacted Enrique Torres, who wrote script to already 19 telenovelas at that time, and told him her ideas for new story. Enrique started to write telenovela that was made just for Natalia and got name Muñeca Brava (Wild girl), but international was renamed to Wild Angel.

Cast and crew of telenovela Casablanca became cast and crew for new telenovela Muñeca Brava, only the main actor was changed and the role of young sexy Ivo was given to talented Facundo Arana. First episode was broadcasted on TeLeFe on 16th of November 1998. The genre of telenovela is mixture of drama, romance and comedy and because of great success telenovela had amazing 270 episodes and the filming did not finish until the end of year 1999. Title theme became rhythmical song Cambio Dolor sang by Natalia Oreiro. Beside this song there was also other song sang by Natalia Oreiro used, romanticMe muero de Amor became main love theme of Milagros and Ivo.

Telenovela soon became the most selling telenovela ever and was sold into more than 100 world countries, besides South America telenovela was seen also in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in Spain, USA, Philippines, Ivory Coast or Costa Rica. There was also remake made based on the telenovela. It was filmed in India and got name Miilee.

Muñeca Brava got many awards as the best telenovela in many countries. Telenovela won twice prestigious award Martín Fierro in years 1999 and 2000. In Israel telenovela was a great success at Viva 2000 awards where it got on 9th of September 2000 four major awards – the best telenovela, best actor, best actress and best song.

Muñeca Brava became world famous phenomenon and made from Natalia Oreiro and Facundo Arana international stars. Natalia could after finishing filming start her music career and Facundo could start film new TV projects.

Muñeca Brava is something more than an ordinary telenovela,” said Natalia at press conference. “It is a story that can be easily true. You can not even imagine how it feels when people tell me how great they feel watching it. That is when I feel really happy. It is the best compliment an actress can ever hear. The success is incredible. Of course when you work on something you want it to be successful but I never dreamt of such a success in Europe and elsewhere. It is interesting to do something that will see millions of people at different places of the world. It is also culturally interesting, we come from different backgrounds but the emotions are the same everywhere. We are very proud of the success Muñeca Brava has in Argentina and moreover, the success it has abroad.”
Natalia said about her character Milagros: “She is very impulsive and also honest girl at the same time. I really enjoyed playing her because I could work on her a lot. I did improvise a lot, half of the scenes were changed on the set to make it funny and also Milagros seems more spontaneous that way. I really did give a lot to this character. Mil was the best character I have played so far and I must confess that despite working fourteen hours a day I was never tired of her.”
And how it was with the script writing? “I did change quite a lot because I changed many scenes on set. First I thought that story of Muñeca Brava was a bit boring so I added some fun elements. But I do not want to act as an author, I am just happy that audience liked it as well with my changes.”


Synopsis:
Milagros Esposito (Natalia Oreiro) is an orphan who lives in monastery from the time she was born. She is young, fresh, wild and naughty but also nice and kind with romantic soul. Time to time she runs away from monastery so she could play her favorite football with other boys from neighborhood and dressed up in boys clothes, with baseball cap on. Or she runs away so she could go with her friend Gloria (Gabriela Sari) to local disco dressed up in sexy mini skirt and dance whole night. At disco she meets her great love – Ivo (Facundo Arana) who she laughs at first for his blond long hair. The day after disco she meets Ivo again, this time at football field where she sells drinks to raise money for children. Because of her clothes Ivo thinks that she is a boy and calls her Carlitos. Angry Cholito, how her friends call her because of her passion to football, throws the drinks on Ivo and runs away…
But because Mili is turning 18 soon she needs to leave monastery and start to work. Mother superior is looking for appropriate job for her. She gets an offer from very rich and noble family Di Carlo to work as maid. And it is Ivo who is a son of owners of the house and these two young people meet again. But in the beginning Ivo does not know that rude maid Mili is in fact the beautiful and sexy girl from disco…
Mili meets other servants working in the house, a bit crazy maid Lina (Victoria Onetto), kind and nice cook Socoro (Silvia Bayle), gardener Ramon (Gino Renni), talky driver Rocky (Marcelo Mazzarello) and also mean maid Marta (Valeria Lorca) and butler Bernardo (Osvaldo Guidi). Mili becomes personal maid for mother of the rich bussiness man Federico Di Carlo (Arturo Maly) Angelica (Lidia Lamaison). However the secret story of family Di Carlo does not begin with Mili enetring the house, the srory has started many years ago…
The wedding of Federico and Luisa (Fernanda Mistral) was planned because she was pregnant with another man and Federico’s family needed money from Luisa’s father. This way they could all be relatively happy. But Federico never accepted Ivo as his son who is in fact son of Nestor Miranda (Rodolfo Machado). Ivo became very attractive man with taste for women, he had many relationships including Pilar (Florencia Ortiz), Florencia (Paola Krum) who he later on marries and soon after divorces again, and also Federico’s lover Andrea (Mariana Arias). It is Ivo’s affairs and high self esteem that is in the way for Milagros and him to be happy right from the beginning.
Mili does not want to wait for Ivo forever and she gets engaged with his cousin Pablo (Segundo Cernandes) whom she helps to recover after car accident. But she is kidnapped from the wedding by Ivo who realizes how much he loves her. After another Ivo’s affairs Milagros finds open arms of young lawyer Sergio (Diego Ramos) who leaves her in the moment when he realizes that the one she truly loves is in fact Ivo.
During the whole story there are hidden secrets being revealed…Ivo finds out that Federico is not his father, Milagros learns that she is not an orphan at all, her father is in fact is Federico who had an affair with maid Rosario (Natalia Oreiro) who had to leave the house and hide herself in close monastery where she gave birth to Milagros and died…but that is also not truth because the whole time Rosario was living hidden between the walls of monastery… Fate of main characters Mili and Ivo plays with them and they need to challenge a lot before they can be finally happy…
Love story of Mili and Ivo is the main theme of the telenovela but it is not the only love story there. Another love couple is Ivo’s half sister Victoria (Veronica Vieyra) who falls madly in love with Rocky but at first she tries to avoid her feelings because she is rich and he is only poor driver. Ivo’s nice friend Bobby (Pablo Novak) finds love in maid Lina. Mean maid Marta falls surprisingly in love with romantic soul Bernardo and Socoro and Ramon get together at once too when Socoro gets pregnant. Also Mili’s friend Gloria, who comes to house of Di Carlo as another maid, finds her true love in butler-to-be Chamuco (Sebastián Miranda).
Despite al the machinations, such as crazy Pilar kidnapping Ivo few days before his wedding, Milagros and Ivo have their dream happy ending. They have beautiful wedding at football field. Milagros’ real father Federico is the one to bring her with white horse and to lead her to the altar. The ceremony is performed by kind priest and brother of Ivo’s real father Padre Manuel (Humbert Serrano). Milagros says her ‘I do’ to her Prince Charming in wonderful white dress surrounded by her friends and family…but it wouldn’t be the real ending for spontaneous Cholito if she wouldn’t run away right after the ceremony to play football and shoot fantastic goal…


Genre: Drama / Romance / Comedy
Number of episodes: 270
Title song: Cambio Dolor / Natalia Oreiro



Cast:
Natalia Oreiro - (Milagros/Cholito)
Facundo Arana - (Ivo)
Paola Krum - (Florencia)
Diego Ramos - (Sergio)
Fernanda Mistral - (Luisa)
Veronica Vieyra - (Victoria)
Lidia Lamaison - (Angelica)
Victoria Onetto - (Lina)
Norberto Diaz - (Damian)
Mariana Arias - (Andrea)
Silvia Bayle - (Socorro)
Segundo Cernadas - (Pablo)
Osvaldo Guidi - (Bernardo)
Valeria Lorca - (Marta)
Gabriela Sari - (Gloria)
Pablo Novak - (Bobby)
Gino Renni - (Ramon)
Marcelo Mazzarello - (Rocky)
Arturo Maly - (Federico)


Photos - here


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