Watch: Salma Hayek makes HBO adaptation of ‘Like Water for Chocolate’

September 27 (UPI) — HBO gives information about the new series Like Water to Chocolate.

The network shared a trailer for the show featuring Azul Guaita and Andrés Baida on Friday.

Like Water to Chocolate It is a romantic drama based on the novel by Laura Esquivel. The series is set during the Mexican Revolution and follows Tita de la Garza (Guaita) and Pedro Múzquiz (Baida), a young couple who cannot be together due to family tradition that Tita’s youngest daughter should never marry in order to care for her mother. It is possible.

“As Tita struggles between the fate imposed on her by her family and her fight for love, the heroes navigate a world full of magical realism and rich flavors. Along the way, the audience will witness her greatest refuge: the kitchen. For Tita, her magical power. Her connection with cooking, her resistance to oppression.” “It becomes active resistance, allowing him to channel his deepest desires and passions into his recipes and transform those who taste them.”

The cast also includes Irene Azuela as Mamá Elena, Ana Valeria Becerril as Rosaura, Andrea Chaparro as Gertrudis, Ángeles Cruz as Nacha, Mauricio García Lozano as Don Pedro Múzquiz, Ari Brickman as Don Felipe Múzquiz, and Louis David Horné as Juan Alejandrez.

Like Water to Chocolate Written and executive produced by Francisco Javier Royo Fernández. Salma Hayek Pinault, José Tamez and Siobhan Flynn also serve as executive producers.

The series will premiere on HBO and Max on November 3.

Esquivel’s novel was previously adapted as a 1992 film starring Lumi Cavazos and Marco Leonardi.