The actress stars in the new Disney + series, where she plays a wealthy thirtysomething with a trauma from the past
There is a popular saying that ensures that money does not bring happiness (“although it helps”, others would add). And a good example of this is Sofía, the protagonist of ‘Limbo… Until I decide‘, the Argentine Disney+ series that arrives on the platform this Wednesday, September 28, with a Spanish actress as the main protagonist: Clara Lago. Behind this fiction are the Argentine directors and producers Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat (‘Official Competition’, ‘The Illustrious Citizen’).
His character is not lacking in euros or silver, as they would say in that Buenos Aires that has concentrated a large part of the filming, but her story is marked by a traumatic past that has come back to settle accounts with her as a result of the unexpected death of her father (Enrique Pineyro), an important businessman from Buenos Aires. Her death forces her to return to the family home that she left behind when she was 12 years old to move to Madrid and reunite with her two brothers to share the company, as if it were a ‘Succession’ Argentina. Although they do not trust too much in the ability of a thirty-year-old who has dedicated the last few years to intensely enjoying life, without apparent worries.
“Sofía is a bit contradictory, but I think that happens a lot: having a very sociable facet, with a lot of hedonism, of superficial pleasure, and on the other hand having an almost antisocial point, of needing to return to oneself to connect,” he says. Lago about a character who also acts as the narrator of everything she is experiencing inside through a voice overlike the haunted Rue de ‘euphoria’. For the actress who starred ‘Eight Basque surnames‘ “It would be like the conscience that is speaking in the moments of more connection that she has, be it conscious or unconscious”.
Another of the elements that connect ‘Limbo’ with ‘Succession’ would be the inaccessible world of luxury in which it is set. “In the first chapters is when you see that frivolous part the most, superficial, capricious, irreverent, irresponsible and with a childish point of Sofia, even if she is a woman of character”, defines Lago, who shows off with an Argentine accent that she has already practiced in films such as ‘At the end of the tunnel’ and ‘The Tale of the Weasels’.
Second season confirmed
Although in this case the plot is not so focused on the ruthless brotherly struggle to take over the family business as in the acclaimed HBO Max series, but rather focused on the mystery of Sofia’s shady past. “She has a complex relationship with her father and with her brothers because there has been deep wounds. The fact that Sofía stays to live in Madrid, for example, is not her own decision, “explains the actress. For her, the journey that her character makes of her over the 10 chapters that make up the first season of the series is summed up in “getting in touch with those wounds and learning to heal them to get to know herself, her family, and find her place”.
With a second season already confirmed, the series also has actors like Mike Amigorena Y Stephen Perez (in the role of Sofia’s brothers), Rebeca Roldan, Geena Roman and Andres Gil and with the special participation of Michel Nohr, Andrea Frigerio and the also Spanish Carmen Maura.