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\n\tNetflix\u00a0is working up a scripted series about Mexican artist and cultural icon\u00a0Frida Kahlo\u00a0and her husband and fellow artist\u00a0Diego Rivera. The streamer said the drama will show how the couple\u2019s love, betrayals and artistic work were shaped by the political and social atmosphere of the time.<\/p>\n
\n\tPatricia Riggen\u00a0and\u00a0Gabriel Ripstein\u00a0will share directing duties. M\u00f3nica Lozano of Alebrije Producciones is producing.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe series will be an adaptation of French novelist Claire Berest\u2019s book about Kahlo, which traced her story and that of her relationship with Rivera. Mar\u00eda Ren\u00e9e Prudencio will be head writer on the streaming series, which does not yet have a name.<\/p>\n
\n\tTimelines are not yet clear with Netflix announcing the project today and simply stating it is in development. The topline shared with media about the show reads: \u201cIt tells the story of a woman who refuses to be only a muse and decides to tell her own version of pain, and of a man who tries to sustain his creative genius despite his contradictions\u2014showing how their relationship became a driving force, a battlefield, and a public spectacle.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe series is the story of a bomb wrapped in silk; a bomb that is the two of them, that is Mexico, and that is, inevitably, the entire world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSpeaking about the series, Carolina Leconte, VP of Content for Mexico at Netflix said: \u201cIt\u2019s a daring proposal that takes us into the most intimate spaces of two figures we feel have been exhausted by myth, but whose true story we have not yet dared to face directly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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