‘Like Water for Chocolate’ Trailer: Tita Makes (Literal) Magic in the Kitchen in Salma Hayek’s HBO Adaptation
And you thought your fritters were magic.
HBO has released the trailer for its latest original series, “Like Water for Chocolate,” an adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s original novel of the same name. There was a 1992 Miramax film adaptation directed by Alfonso Arau, but this is the first time Tita and Pedro’s love story was made for the small screen (though TV’s have gotten pretty big since ’92). The series has been in development for TV since 2017.
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In “Like Water for Chocolate” (the book, the movie, and now the series), Tita and Pedro are in love, but Tita’s mother condemns her for the single life. You could do that back then: “Like Water for Chocolate” is set amid the Mexican Revolution, so a bit more than a century ago. But Tita and Pedro aren’t going down without a fight — for Tita, that resistance starts in the kitchen and ends with transformations at the table.
You see, Tita makes magic in the kitchen — literally. She pours “her deepest desires and passions into her recipes, transforming those who taste them,” the logline reads. Again, this is all to be taken completely literally. Like, if she cries into cake batter, anyone who eats it is going to weep. This will all make (slightly) more sense if you watch the trailer, which is below.
This “Like Water for Chocolate” stars Irene Azuela, Azul Guaita (she’s Tita), Ana Valeria Becerril, Andrea Chaparro, Andrés Baida (he’s Pedro), ángeles Cruz, Ari Brickman, Louis David Horné, Mauricio García Lozano, and Iván Amozurrutia.
The TV version, which will air on linear HBO and stream on Max, is directed by Julian de Tavira and Analorena Perezrios. It is executive produced by like a million people — as is the case in television these days — most notably Salma Hayek Pinault. The other EPs for her Ventanarosa Productions are Jose Tamez and Siobhan Flynn. Sharon Levy, Lisa Fahrenholt, and Flavio Morales exec produce for Endemol Shine North America, and Alejandro Rincón, Jerry Rodriguez, and Clara Machado executive produce for Endemol Shine Boomdog; Manuel Vargas oversees physical production. For HBO parent Warner Bros. Discovery, Mariano Cesar, M?nica Alburquerque, and Anouk Aarón are the EPs.
Francisco Javier Royo Fernández AKA “Curro Royo” is the head writer and Jerry Rodriguez is showrunner.
“Like Water for Chocolate” premieres on November 3; watch the trailer below.
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