|
 Rosa
Andrade is a such second (even third) emblematic role of Santa
Barbara that even absent from the show during four years, her
name continues to be quoted ! Rosa shows herself as a relentless mother
(this due perhaps to her Hispanic origins, accentuated by a very
pronounced accent
!), indeed a little old-fashioned, but very loving towards as well her own children as all those
of the Capwells tribe. Rosa is indeed the maid of the richest
family of Santa Barbara and, as we can say, used to be a surrogate
mother for Channing Junior, Eden, Kelly and Ted, their mother Sophia
having disappeared in the sea in 1969.
Faithful
to Ruben, her husband and gardener of the same Capwells, Rosa is it also
towards C.C., the patriarch of the family to who she dedicates an
unbounded admiration. This is why she cannot believe it when she learns from
the mouth of her daughter Santana that C.C. had formerly withdrew the baby
to who she secretly gave birth in Acapulco. She then
discovers the hidden face of C.C. : manipulator and at the time without
much morality... Even if she does not encourage Santana a lot in her attempts to
obtain the guard of her son Brandon, she cannot be prevented from showing
in public her attachment to her grandson whom she spoil as much as she can
with sandwiches and cakes cooked with love.
Even
if her appearances were in any case only sporadic, it becomes however
obvious that Rosa has deserted the Capwell kitchen in this year 1987.
Her name remains however quoted from time to time through the years, the time of one
"Let us see what Rosa
has prepared for us this evening..."
or "I will ask Rosa to cook you your
favorite meal..."...
It is only in 1991 that she finally reappears on the front of the scene,
at the same time as her daughter Santana leaves the psychiatric
hospital where she had been interned for two years. Rosa is thus present
to welcome Ted, finally came back that year, but also to make all she
can do to dissuade Santana to date C.C. with who she has fallen
in love. She indeed fears that her daughter does not suffer from the
incompatibility remaining between their two worlds, but more especially
from the competition with Sophia of who she knows that C.C. is always in love. But
C.C. finishes by showing her that he takes his relation with Santana with
serious and Rosa accepts their love-affair as good as she can.
Her
marriage with Ruben seeming, without explanation, to belong from now
on to the past, Rosa agrees many times to go out
at the arm of Rafael Castillo, Cruz's father. If
at the beginning she is reticent with his hastened advances,
she finally falls under his charm and drops her shell to open completely to him...
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Hotel
California,
2003
