Alfonso Herrera does not try to soften Esteban Trueba. He knows the man he plays in Prime Video's La Casa de los Espíritus can be called evil. He knows he is cruel. He knows he wounds the women around him, builds power through possession, and becomes one of the forces that turn Isabel Allende's story's family history into political history.
What Herrera also knows is that Esteban cannot be played as a monster from a distance. He had to be inhabited, and he masterfully did in a powerful, nuanced, and deeply vulnerable performance that carries the series from the first episode to the last.
