The Color of Passion


The Color of Passion is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Gómez Fernández for Televisa. The telenovela is written by Cuauhtémoc Blanco, who wrote the telenovelas Mi pecado, Cadenas de amargura, and El manantial.
The plot revolves around Rebeca, a woman who always hated her sister Adriana for having everything including the man whom Rebecca loved. Rebeca murders her sister to end up with the man and becomes the step mother/aunt of her sister's daughter Lucía.. Nora resents Lucia for the same reasons Rebecca hated Adriana, as history repeats itself.
The series stars Erick Elias as Marcelo, Esmeralda Pimentel as Lucía, Claudia Ramírez as Rebeca, René Strickler as Alonso, Eugenia Cauduro as Magdalena and Ariadne Díaz as Adriana.

Plot summary

First stage

Adriana Murillo de Gaxiola is married to Alonso Gaxiola, owner of a Talavera factory in Puebla. Magdalena and Rebeca, sisters of Adriana, live with her sister and husband due to them being orphans. Alonso and Adriana have a solid and happy marriage, but are unaware of Rebeca's true envious nature, which she masks by being a "sweet angel". This facade does not fool Magdalena, who suspects Rebeca's true nature.
Rebeca has always been secretly in love with Alonso, and therefore harbors envious feelings towards her sister; that feeling becomes hatred upon learning that Adriana will soon become a mother. Rebecca's wicked nature extends to her sister Magdalena, who was responsible that Magdalena was left at the altar. Because of this, Magdalena develops depression and is helpless in uncovering Rebeca's secret.
Soon, Adriana discovers all of Rebeca's secrets and kicks her out of their house. However, they get into an argument which ends with the balcony railing snapping and causing Adriana to fall from the second floor, hitting her head on the glass table below.
Tragically, Adriana loses her life, but miraculously her daughter survives and is named Lucía, after Adriana's mother.

Second stage

It's been 24 years since the tragic accident. Rebeca and Alonso are married and are the parents of their daughter, Nora, an unbalanced, envious and selfish girl, who has always felt less than her sister and wants everything she has. In addition Rebeca, more than an aunt, has been a mother for Lucía, although secretly hates her as she considers Lucía to be the living proof of the great love that there once was between her sister Adriana and Alonso. This frustration leads Rebeca to have thousands of lovers, one of them is Féderico Valdivia Fuentes, a man much younger than her, and who is so obsessed with Rebeca so much that commits suicide in front of her when she breaks up with him.
Lucía is a young, noble and sweet girl of good feelings that is about to marry Rodrigo Zúñiga, her boyfriend of most of her life. However, she finds out her sister, Nora, is sleeping with Rodrigo after he leaves Lucia planted in the altar. This causes Lucía to fall into a brief depression.
Féderico's brother, Marcelo Escalante Fuentes, arrives in Puebla to take revenge on the woman who lead to his brother's death, but is surprised to learn that the woman he seeks, Adriana Murillo, died 24 years ago. This leads him to delve into the Gaxiola-Murillo family and there he meets Lucía, who he falls in love with, not knowing she is the niece of Rebeca, the woman he seeks and for which his half-brother committed suicide, but things will not be so easy for Marcelo since Lucía does not want to know anything about love after the trauma she experienced on her wedding day.
He gets Lucía to fall in love with him and for reasons of destiny they are separated again but will fight to be together forever and overcome each obstacle to consolidate their love.

Cast

Main

The telenovela began its production in Puebla on February 4, 2014. For the beginning only the following actors were present: Erick Elías, Esmeralda Pimentel, Eduardo España, Ariadne Díaz, Eugenia Cauduro, René Strickler and Claudia Ramírez.

Development

For the development of the telenovela producers decided to set the novel in a province of Mexico City, to show the entire world the beautiful landscapes and localities of Mexico, since Puebla is considered a small Mexican Hollywood.

Reception

The telenovela premiered on March 17, 2014 replacing De que te quiero, te quiero. During the premiere, The Color of Passion had recorded 15.5 rating points. On August 31, 2014, it surpassed 22.8 rating points in the final.
In the United States, it premiered on September 6, 2016 with 1.9 million viewers.

Awards and nominations