La Reina del Sur is an original Telemundo super-production based on the best-selling book of the same name by acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte, which has been published in 19 languages and distributed in 30 countries. Multi-faceted actress and Mexican superstar Kate Del Castillo, whose credits include Under the Same Moon, Julia, Bordertown (film) and Weeds (TV), takes on the role of a lifetime as she portrays one of the most fascinating protagonists in history. As Teresa Mendoza, she will be transformed from an innocent young girl from a small Mexican village, to become the most powerful woman in the dangerous world of narcotics trafficking in Europe. As Teresa will discover, the survival instinct cannot be learned; it takes a hold of you when you least expect it. Teresa never dreamt of being the queen of anything, so perhaps it was the instinct that engulfed her on that fateful day when the phone rang signaling the end of the simple life she knew and the beginning of an astonishing new one. Her lover, aircraft pilot el Güero Davila, had been killed for breaking the rules and revealing secrets and now her own death had been cast. Running from her small town of Culiacán, México to the Spanish coast, Teresa’s path leads her to become the coke queen of Costa del Sol. “The Queen of the South”will not rest until el Güero’s death is avenged, and she is finally able to turn the last page of her riveting story, on her own terms.
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[...] will play her in the movie. Oh, wait, Kate Del Castillo (a.k.a. Pilar on Weeds) plays her in a Telemundo “super-production” of the book. Funny, Nancy Botwin was my “runner-up” [...]