Ivana Baquero, actress: "Black Widow wasn't a nymphomaniac; she wanted a harem of admirers."

One August morning in 2017, the body of a man was found in a parking lot in Valencia. Maje, his widow, is a woman in her twenties and devastated. Her husband had been mercilessly stabbed seven times. Eva, the city's homicide detective, takes charge of the investigation and, little by little, discovers that Maje may not be as sad as she appears, nor as kind and sweet as she seems. Actress Ivana Baquero has played Maje, a real-life assassin serving a sentence for orchestrating the death of her husband, to whom she had only been married for a year. He had forgiven her for having cheated on Andrés before their wedding. Maje, who worked as a nurse in a Valencian hospital, also had relationships with Dani and Salva behind her husband's back. Read also García Montero: “Almudena and I met when our relationship was fading.” Leonor Mayor Ortega Carmen Machi, in the role of Eva, and Tristán Ulloa join Baquero in the cast of La viuda negra, directed by Carlos Sedes, which will arrive on Netflix on May 30. “I didn't know about the case, and it was fascinating to discover it for the first time when I was researching to create the character,” Baquero explains in an interview with La Vanguardia . Ivana Baquero in a still from 'The Black Widow' Although she has never met the real killer in person, the actress has found "her essence." "I looked for her voice, her cadence. I didn't want to be a physical carbon copy of Maje, but I did work on her gestures and her way of speaking," she notes. “I looked for her voice, her cadence. I didn't want to be a physical copy of Maje, but I did work on her gestures.” The film was informed by "all the public documentation that exists on the matter, the audio of the tapped calls, the recordings of the trial, and, above all, the script." He also enlisted the help of Ramón Campos, the screenwriter and producer of The Black Widow , "who always carries out extensive research in all his films based on real events." However, despite being a true crime film, The Black Widow contains some fictional elements, "because we didn't have all the answers and there were certain gaps in the case that we had to fill in." Read also Ivana Baquero's challenges IsabelClarósBarcelona With all these elements, Baquero has managed to get inside Maje's skin and understand her psychology: "Maje had many lovers, but she wasn't a nymphomaniac. She wanted to create a harem of men who admired her. She had a need to live diverse lives and be idolized. So she went beyond mere sexual encounters and created relationships, connections with all her lovers." Read also The Supreme Court upholds the 17-year prison sentence for the murderer of 'Maje's' husband. Enrique Bolland The actress explains that the film's team "explored Maje's inner workings to understand that her crime had many variables and that the motive wasn't simply financial, because many factors came together." Read also 'Mission: Impossible,' the saga that renewed action cinema L. Mayor Ortega (Texts) and M. Chaparro, N. Palazón and . Belil (Infographics) “This murder involved many factors related to Maje's upbringing in a very religious family and the oppression she felt in the village, her need to escape that environment without knowing how, although factors related to her own somewhat narcissistic personality also played a role. Maje always wanted to be the victim, never the perpetrator,” he adds. Read also Salva incriminates Maje in her husband's murder: "He asked me to kill him." Editorial and agencies Valencia With this role, Baquero takes another step forward in her successful career, which began as a child. At 12, she won a Goya for her role in Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006). "For me, everything was very normal. I always wanted to be an actress. I won the Goya and the next day I went to school, because my parents always prioritized my studies," she explains. Read also Ted Bundy: The "normal guy" who raped and murdered thirty women Leonor Mayor Ortega Now, he lives in Los Angeles, although in reality, he "lives in a suitcase." He just finished filming the spin-off of the series Spartacus in New Zealand and, at just 30 years old, he's already preparing for new acting challenges around the world.