Paulina GarcĂa—the Gloria of Gloria—has acted in soap operas in Chile since the 1980s, but there's no turgid drama or wild-eyed emoting in either Gloria or Gloria. Uncomfortable moments are endured or shrugged off; confrontations are small but pointed, or sometimes avoided. When a person disappears, they don't storm out of the room, they're just quietly gone.
Gloria is on the far side of middle age, and she's been divorced for a dozen years...
