Taking a look at the world
of telenovelas




Croatia hires
Mexican talents

The Mexican talent agency owned by Gabriel Blanco handed the actors.

he producer of the second Croatian telenovela –the first one was Villa Maria– and owner of AVA producing company, Roman Majetic, carried out the casting for Amor fuera de lugar in Mexico, under the organization of Tjasa Kogej, Slovenian journalist and also TVMAS correspondent.

	Dinner where they signed the contracts, at World Trade Center in Mexico City. José Luis Perez Ibarra, from Gabriel Blanco Artistic Representations office; Slovenian journalist and correspondent of TVMAS and of this issue, Tjasa Kogej; actress and singer, Paola Toyos; actor Juan Pablo Medina and producer Roman Majetic.

The selection was made with the artistic representation company, Gabriel Blanco, one of the biggest in Mexico City, which has first-rate telenovela artists.
From 20 actors who showed up, only two remained: Juan Pablo Medina, several times protagonist of TV Azteca telenovelas (Las Juanas, Soñarás, Cuando seas mía, El país de las mujeres, Enamorarte, among others) and the actress Paola Toyos, the beautiful protagonist of Nunca te diré adiós, shot in Peru (Venevision and Iguana productions).

	Villa María

They play brother and sister, Enrique and Alejandra, who will go from Mexico to Croatia –he will go there to play soccer, and she will accompany him since her boyfriend has just stood her up at the altar.
The actors will be performing their characters in Croatia for 5 weeks. They will speak Spanish between each other but they will communicate in English with the Croatian characters, therefore, some scenes will be subtitled for the European audience. The first scenes started shooting at the beginning of January in Zagreb.