Irma Dorantes believes that there is no actor who can play Pedro Infante. (Photo by Mario Castillo/Jam Media/LatinContent via Getty Images) (Jam Media via Getty Images)
His name was Pedro Infante, The ViX bioseries reached the screens rejected before its creation. Actress Irma Dorantes, ex-wife of the Guamúchil idol, did not give her blessing to the project because she believes that no one has the qualities to play the person who was her great love.
After Netflix produced “Like Callen from Heaven” (2019), a film in which Omar Chaparro plays the Infante, In 2021, Dorantes expressed his rejection and displeasure at bringing the singer into the present through other actors. He didn’t like the result of this production. She also didn’t like the fact that in plots of this kind, the legendary figure of her ex-husband was used to fictionalize him.
“What is that?! It’s a fall into hell. How long did it last? What did you do! There are thousands of imitators, how wonderful, but no …,” he explained to the First Hand program. At this point, there were already approaches and negotiations with Pedro Infante’s family to bring his life into fiction with a biographical series.
The actress was aware of this. She resignedly assumed that her opinion would not be taken into account and in turn excluded herself from participating in the decision about what could and could not be touched in the plot. Despite it, She strongly emphasized that if it were up to her, she would not allow the idol to appear in more fictional stories.
Convinced that Like Fallen from the Sky was a failed attempt to show her ex-husband, the actress assumes that the same will happen with those works that want to have Pedro Infante as a character, since, in her opinion no actor with similar or close natural gifts. to what he had: “The first thing you need is people with charisma and that would be ideal, but who gives you that smile? Nobody nobody”.
Dorantes explains that she is still in love with Pedro Infante and firmly believes that big celebrities like him should not be touched. She advocates that the figure of the idol remains buried in the past, that is, that it should not be touched today because it could fall into the ridicule and distortion of the individual who: “Let’s leave it as it is, let’s remember it as it is, with the love with which we all remember it.”
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The pain of not attending the funeral of your true love
In His Name was Pedro Infante, Irma Dorantes is played by Daniela Álvarez. In its passages, the bio series addresses the relationship that culminated in the marriage of the two stars. It was a controversial and questionable romance at the time as he was 17 years older than her. because he was married, because he began courting her when the actress was still a minor, and because their wedding was annulled by the Supreme Court of the Nation (SCJN) six days before the singer’s death.
They met while filming The three Huastecos (Ismael Rodriguez, 1948). Irma was 13 years old and Pedro was 30. Six years later, they were married “illegally” because the actor did not legally divorce his marriage to María Luisa León. Likewise, an industry that did not see the age difference positively criticized the fact that he had been in love with his fiancée since they were young.
The most tragic and bitter moment of their romance came after the plane crash that killed Pedro Infante on April 15, 1957.. The idol died while related to Dorantes and his daughter Irma, although the marriage was legally void. In other words, before the law, his legitimate wife was María Luisa León.
This legal detail was the key to the pain that Irma Dorantes carries to this day. People from the National Association of Actors (ANDA) locked her in a dressing room so she couldn’t attend the funeral of her true love. This in accordance with León’s alleged orders for her not to appear, thus preserving her place as the singer’s only wife.
The bitter drinks of her love affair are still valid, but she balances them with the memories and feelings she still has of Infante, a man she loved and loves. and the one you feel close to when you rewatch his films or listen to his songs again.