Marta Del Sol
Veronica Martinez known by her alias Marta Del Sol is a fictional character from the American soap opera Dallas, played by Leonor Varela.
Marta partners with the duo and they attempt to steal the Southfork Ranch from Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy).
With similar personalities they are well matched; but John Ross' relationship with Elena Ramos (Jordana Brewster) causes Marta to become jealous and obsessive.
But Jarett Wieselman from Entertainment Tonight said that Marta epitomised Dallas' key themes of "shocking revelations, devious double-crosses and smoking hot stars".
[1] While interviewed for La Segunda she said that the show's production company Warner Bros. Television and the broadcaster TNT both had to approve of her casting before it was finalized.
[2] Marta was originally meant to be an environmentalist and fill the role of opposition to the Ewing's plans to drill for oil on the Southfork Ranch.
Varela told a writer from El Mercurio that "Marta is a sophisticated woman, educated, smart and professional.
She did not reveal specific details because she felt that it would ruin the viewing experience as Marta brings "intrigue, suspense and surprises" to Dallas.
Even more fun and entertaining was not working within the "classical canons of good" and playing a Dallas villain with a "touch of madness".
Viewing YouTube vlogs of young people with the condition's "highs (mania) and lows (depression)" helped her to understand that there was "a very large range of this disease".
[8] Marta gets involved with John Ross and seduces him as part of her plan to secure the Southfork Ranch from the Ewing family.
[3] Valera decided her character loved John Ross from the pilot episode when she makes a "truly genuine gesture" towards him.
She then helps John Ross in his attempts to con J.R.[9] Marta begins taking pills and becomes more unstable over time.
"[7] In July 2012, a reporter from the Toronto Sun said that Varela would be departing the series after Marta is killed following a fall from a balcony.
John Ross is upset that his relationship with Elena Ramos (Jordana Brewster) has ended and he goes back to Marta's hotel room for sex.
"[12] Alex Fletcher from Digital Spy described Marta as John Ross' "scheming partner in crime" and a Us Weekly columnist named her a "sexy villain".
[15] Access Hollywood's Jodie Lash said that Varela had been "heating up" the show as "the bad and mad girl who's been causing trouble for John Ross and his father, J.R.
[4] Mandi Bierly of Entertainment Weekly described the character as "a woman with anger issues who's into bondage and filmed her sexcapade with John Ross.
"[16] She later opined mixing champagne and lithium in a revenge plot would come naturally to Marta and predicted that she would end up murdered.
[12][18][19] Jarett Wieselman from Entertainment Tonight said that "Dallas was second-to-none when it came to shocking revelations, devious double-crosses and smoking hot stars.
TNT's Dallas is picking up right where the original left off and rolling all of those attributes into one character: Leonor Varela's "Marta Del Sol.
"[20] A writer from the International Business Times said that Marta turned out to be "shady a character as anyone and could give those Ewing boys a run for their money.
"[21] A reporter from Inside Soap said that Marta had a history of "violence fuelled by jealousy" and was "as stable as a bucking bronco at the Southfork rodeo".
The writer concluded that "when not watching her own violent, druggy sex tapes, she's making threats to John Ross, doing some crazy-eye, head-wobbling manic acting and generally causing mayhem for the entire Southfork clan.
