by Scott Huver February 22, 2010 09:53 AM EST
Despite America Ferrera’s thriving movie career both in front of the camera and behind the scenes, the actress is the first to admit it will be bittersweet to hang up Betty Suarez’s poncho when her series Ugly Betty ends its four-season run this year.
“No – I'm a stone cold robot monster and I have no feelings. Of course it's bittersweet!” Ferrera told TV Guide Magazine while promoting her new film "Our Family Wedding," opening March 12 (she also executive produced and starred in "The Dry Land," which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival).
“It's been a part of my life for four years, essentially my whole adult life,” the actress explained. “I love the cast and I love this character and I love the show. It's hard to say goodbye to something that's been a part of you life for four years. And at the same time it will always just be something that changed my life, changed my career and will be incredible memories forever.
Ferrera promises that Ugly Betty’s final episode will wrap up all the show’s storyline in a way its faithful viewers will appreciate.
“We're not going to do a Sopranos' type ending,” she said. “I'm happy with the way that we're going to wrap it up. I think Betty fans will be, too. I mean, not everybody will be satisfied. Everyone that I meet – the guy at the security checkpoint at the airport has an opinion about who Betty should be with and what her life should end up as which is wonderful. It's amazing to meet fans who really care that much and have stuck with it and have passionate feelings about it, but I'm happy with the way that it's going to end.”While Betty began life as a U.S. adaptation of the Columbian telenovela Yo soy Betty, le fea and there have been over a dozen international versions, Ferrera says: “it's really fun that our version, the American version, has kind of become owned by other places. We're so loved in Australia, we're so loved in the UK. French and Spanish and Italian people stop me all the time. I was in Morocco and people recognized me as Betty. That's a really amazing part of it and knowing that this character and her positivity and her light and her enthusiasm and the love for an underdog is just global. It's universal. That's a really rewarding part of it.”
She does admit there is one thing about the show that she’s ready to leave behind. Asked if she’ll miss taking on Betty’s distinctive, style-challenged look, Ferrera flashed her real-life radiant smile: “Absolutely not!”
TV Guide Magazine- America On Ugly Betty's End
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