Porque te quiero así

Porque te quiero así
Genre	Telenovela
Written by	Adriana Lorenzón
Directed by	Eduardo Ripari
Starring	Jorge Echagüe Florencia Peña Jorge Esmoris Catherine Fulop
Country of origin	Uruguay
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	57
Production
Production location	Montevideo, Uruguay
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Canal 10
Original release
Network	Canal 10
Release	July 20, 2010 (2010-07-20) – November 1, 2011 (2011-11-01)

Porque te quiero así (Spanish: Because I Love You That Way) is a Uruguayan telenovela produced and broadcast on Channel 10. It stars Jorge Echagüe and Florencia Peña, while the second season airs Catherine Fulop. It was released on July 20, 2010.^[1]

Plot summary

Susana Macedo (Florencia Peña) has lived in Spain for 3 years and decides to return to Montevideo just to sign the divorce papers with her ex-husband Washington Sosa (Jorge Esmoris). There she will meet Lito González (Jorge Echagüe), with whom she had a romantic history in the past and will try not to meet him, to quickly return to Europe. However, everything changes when Omar Macedo (Adhemar Rubbo), Susana's father and president of the Olympic Sports Club, suffers a health problem and is forced to abandon the position. At the request of her father, Susana must participate in elections, in which Lito and Washington also participate. A dispute will begin between the three candidates, which will lead to debates, provocations, alliances and betrayals. Finally they will be forced to choose between love for the shirt or for the other.^[2]

Cast

• Florencia Peña as Susana Macedo (Season 1)
• Jorge Echagüe as Miguel "Lito" González
• Jorge Esmoris as Washington Sosa
• Rubén Rada as Nelson (Season 1)
• Catherine Fulop as Alejandra Guzmán (Season 2)
• Gustaf van Perinostein as Silvio
• Cristina Morán as Chela
• Humberto de Vargas as Rubens Robaina
• Noelia Campo as Carolina Macedo
• Virginia Ramos as Pochi
• Florencia Zabaleta as Rosario González
• Martín Cardozo as Juanjo González
• Adhemar Rubbo as Omar Macedo
• Mauricio Jortak as Santiago (Season 1)
• Diego Delgrossi as Julio
• Graciela Rodriguez as Francesca Schiaretti (Season 2)
• Nicolás Furtado as Ciro Schiaretti/Ciro González Guzmán (Season 2)
• Ariel Caldarelli as Giovanni Schiaretti (Season 2)
• Rafael Beltrán as Pablo (Season 2)
• Lucía David de Lima as Isabel (Season 2)
• Ernesto Liotti as Ángelo (Season 2)
• Gaspar Valverde as Darío (Season 2)

Production

The first season premiered on July 20, 2010, and ended on November 2, 2010 with 16 chapters aired.^[3]

It was scripted by the Argentine Adriana Lorenzón, author of Montecristo, Los Roldán and El Capo, directed by Eduardo Ripari (Los Exitosos Pells, Montecristo, Los Roldán, Criminal) and produced in HD, the fiction has a casting of excellence led by the well-known Argentine actress Florencia Peña (La Niñera and Casados con Hijos) and important local figures, such as Coco Echagüe, Jorge Esmoris and Rubén Rada.

After the success of the series, it was renewed for a second season, which starred Catherine Fulop, and was broadcast between July 26, 2011 and November 1, 2011.^[4] It had 40 episodes and a Special Program.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
2011	Iris Award	Best Television Fiction	Porque te quiero así	Won	[5][6]
		Best Actor/Actress of Television Fiction	Florencia Peña	Won
			Jorge Esmoris	Nominated
2012		Best Fiction	Porque te quiero así	Nominated	[7]

References

1. "Se estrenó "Porque te quiero así"". LARED21 (in Spanish). 2011-07-29. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
2. "Se estrenó "Porque te quiero así"". LARED21 (in Spanish). 2011-07-29. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
3. "Se estrenó "Porque te quiero así"". LARED21 (in Spanish). 2011-07-29. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
4. "Hoy Canal 10 Estrena Segunda Temporada de PORQUE TE QUIERO ASÍ" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-28.
5. "Nominados a los Premios Iris". Pantallazo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-28.
6. Grupo 180. "Nueva edición de los premios Iris". www.180.com.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-28.
7. "Ganadores premios Iris 2012 - El Diario - TV" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-28.