HBO’s ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ Debuts Surreal Trailer as Executive Producer Salma Hayek Pinault Teases a ‘Completely Universal Forbidden Love Story’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Ellise Shafer “Like Water for Chocolate,” HBO’s upcoming series adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s Mexican literary classic executive produced by Salma Hayek Pinault, has released its official trailer.

Set during the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, the six-episode series follows Tita de la Garza (Azul Guaita) and Pedro Múzquiz (Andrés Baida), “two souls deeply in love, yet unable to be together due to entrenched family customs,” according to the show’s synopsis. “The protagonists navigate a world of magical realism and rich flavors as Tita struggles between the destiny imposed on her by her family and her fight for love.

Along the way, the audience will witness her greatest refuge: the kitchen. For Tita, her magical connection to cooking becomes an active resistance against oppression, allowing her to channel her deepest desires and passions into her recipes, transforming those who taste them.” Hayek Pinault, who executive produced the series through her Ventanarosa Productions banner, told Variety that after six years of development, it is “so satisfying to finally see it on screen.” “‘Like Water for Chocolate’ is a true jewel of Latin American literature and film,” Hayek Pinault continued. “I wanted to find a new place and way to tell this story, so that a new generation can discover it and the people who already have a relationship with the story can rediscover it in a new format.” Hayek Pinault was a “huge fan” of both Esquivel’s 1989 book and the 1992 film adaptation, which became the highest-grossing foreign-language film ever released in the United States at that time.