Telemundo has kicked off productio on its latest telenovela, La Fan, starring Angelica Vale, Juan Pablo Espinosa, Ximena Duque, Jonathan Islas, Scarlet Ortiz and Gabriel Porras. Inspired on an original idea by Vale, La Fan was written by Marcela Citterio. Miguel Varoni, Claudio Callao and Otto RodrÃguez co-direct, with Carmen Cecilia Urbaneja, José Gerardo Guillen and David Posada serving as executive producers. La Fan is the story of a happy-go-lucky woman from a poor background who is a passionate fan of a famous telenovela actor until an unexpected twist of fate drives her headlong right into his life. Her idol may hardly notice at first, but by the time the story ends he won’t be able to imagine his life without her.
Angelica Vale plays the lead, returning to telenovelas after more than 10 years, taking on the role of Valentina Perez, a fun-loving extrovert. A dreamer, Valentina is a bit clumsy and cautious in pursuing her idol, Lucas Duarte (Juan Pablo Espinosa), a famous telenovela actor. Valentina knows full well that she is living in a fantasy and will never meet her heartthrob in real life, so she channels her energies into creating the Lucas Duarte Fan Club, whose members are known as “Las Lucalocas.”