La Reina del Sur season 2

The second season of the American drama television series La Reina del Sur was announced by Telemundo on 11 May 2017. The season based on the original work of Arturo Pérez-Reverte is adapted for television by Roberto Stopello. Filming officially began in April 2018 in Tuscany, Italy. The season premiered on 22 April 2019 and ended on 29 July 2019.

Plot
The season revolves around Teresa Mendoza nine years after the events of the first season. Hidden from the rest of the world, Teresa now lives an idyllic existence in Italian Tuscany, but the kidnapping of her daughter forces her to reintroduce herself into the underworld of drug trafficking and once again confront her old enemies and the past she tried to leave behind.

Production
The series initially filmed in Italy, but much of the production took place in Colombia, because Kate del Castillo could not return to Mexico. The series also filmed in places such as Moscow, Russia, Bucharest, Romania, Massa Marittima, and Malaga, Spain. In addition to the return of Del Castillo, Alejandro Calva and Eduardo Velasco, new actors joined the series including as Aitor Luna, Jesús Castro, and Eduardo Yáñez. According to Stopello, the season begins eight years after Teresa's disappearance. The cast was revealed on 29 November 2018.

The title of the first episode "El regreso de la Reina" was revealed by Del Castillo through her Instagram account. A total of 60 episodes have been confirmed for this season.

Cast

 * Kate del Castillo as Teresa Mendoza
 * Raoul Bova as Francesco Belmondo
 * Paola Núñez as Manuela
 * Mark Tacher as Alejandro Alcalá
 * Flavio Medina as Zurdo Villa
 * Luisa Gavasa as Cayetana Segovia
 * Antonio Gil as Oleg Yosikov
 * Alejandro Calva as César Güemes "Batman"
 * Kika Edgar as Genoveva Alcalá
 * Lincoln Palomeque as Faustino Sánchez Godoy
 * Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Carmen Martínez
 * Carmen Flores Sandoval as Charo
 * Emannuel Orenday as Danilo Márquez
 * Alejandro Speitzer as Ray Dávila
 * Christian Tappan as Willy Rangel
 * Tiago Correa as Jonathan Peres
 * Cuca Escribano as Sheila
 * Carmen Navarro as Marcela / La Conejo
 * Miguel Ángel Blanco as Siso Pernas
 * Eduardo Velasco as Coronel Abdelkader Chaib
 * Sara Vidorreta as Rocío Aljarafe
 * Agata Clares as Paloma Aljarafe
 * Juan José Arjona as Pablo Flores
 * Abdelali el Aziz as Ahmed
 * Isabella Sierra as Sofía Dantes
 * Humberto Zurita as Epifanio Vargas
 * Jesús Castro as Jesús
 * Pol Monen as Juan
 * Eduardo Yáñez as Antonio Alcalá
 * Aitor Luna as Pedro
 * Eduardo Santamarina as Mariano Bravo
 * Eric Roberts as Erick Sheldon
 * María Camila Giraldo as Jimena Montes
 * Vera Mercado as Virginia Vargas
 * Norma Angélica as Morgana
 * Eduardo Pérez as Sergio
 * Dimitry Anisimov as Anton
 * Aroha Hafez as Triana
 * Anna Ciocchetti as Marietta Lancaster
 * Roberto Abraham Wohlmuth as Lencho