‘Chaves’ widow breaks silence on dispute over comedian’s legacy – ac24horas.com

The actress Florinda Mezainterpreter of the infamous Dona Florinda and widow of Roberto Bolaños (1929-2014), the Keys, wrote an open letter this Friday, the 26th, in which he vents about the imbroglio that took Bolaños’ programs off the air and the conflicting relationship with the comedian’s children. “I want to clarify that, to date, I have not sued anyone, it is not my desire and I hope I do not find myself needing to do so, for any reason. I never sought conflict with the children of the love of my life. Roberto’s last will requires me to intervene to protect his legacy, because he trusted me and so provided in his will. If they want, we can resolve this immediately, it is urgent that laughter returns to homes”, he wrote in the text published in Spanish and Portuguese.

In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the contract with Televisa for literary rights to broadcast Chaves ended. Without an agreement between the channel and the singer’s children, the series went off air in several parts of the world, including Brazil. Widow of Bolãnos, writer and interpreter, Meza said that she was not invited to the negotiations, and that she found out from the media about the suspension of broadcasts. “In his will, he named me as his representative to protect his characters from misuse. And what worse use can be made of the legacy of a genius than burying him, freezing him for almost four years?”, she asked, stating that Roberto was never interested in the money and that he would not have allowed the series to go off the air. during the pandemic, taking away “the joy of followers” ​​at a time “when they needed it most”.

Bolãnos’ widow also said that she hopes that “any production that talks about him sticks to the truth and reflects what Roberto thought and felt”. “Any different vision of this will not be his biography, it will be another story, someone else’s imagination, full of fantasies to sell. But the character named after Roberto won’t really be him,’ she wrote. Despite not mentioning names, the excerpt appears to refer to Unintentionally wanting, a biographical series about Roberto Bolaños produced by MAX in collaboration with Roberto Gómez Fernández, the comedian’s son. In March, the Mexican press reported that the actress had opened a lawsuit against Bolaños’ businesswoman and former advisor Maca Rotter, accused of passing on confidential and intimate information to the production team — as reported at the time, Florinda does not oppose the existence of a series about her ex-husband, but would have demanded that the rights to the actor’s life and those close to him be respected.

Leading the negotiations with the television company, Roberto Gómez Fernández said in a recent interview with VEJA that his biggest concern and responsibility is to ensure that people can watch the original series again, but that there are still complications in the negotiations for this to happen. “Despite this, I hope that this will be resolved soon”, he said, having previously declared that Florinda never participated in the negotiations with Televisa and that she does not maintain a close relationship with her stepmother.

Roberto Bolaños and Florinda Maza were together for 37 years — he left his ex-wife, Graciela Fernández Pierre, mother of his six children, to be with his co-star, with whom he got together in 1977. The couple maintained a stable union until 2004, the year they officially married, after Bolaños divorced his ex-wife, and they stayed together until 2014, when the comedian passed away, aged 85.