Trivia / Soy Luna

• Actor Allusion:
  • Gaston Vietto (Pedro) has portrayed a member of a band of three before in Peter Punk.
  • Matteo's family travels a lot and he never had the chance to make any steady friends before settling down in Buenos Aires. This is exactly what happens to the titular character in Violetta, the series that made Ruggero Pasquarelli a star.
  • Eva has a sort of Granola Girl personality, similar to Camila, Candelaria Molfese's character in Violetta. She is also vegetarian, as is her actress.
  • It's not the first time Ruggero Pasquarelli (Matteo) portrays an ambitious aspiring singer with an inflated ego.
• Ascended Fanon: The Portmanteau Couple Name Lutteo for Luna and Matteo became popular in the fandom during the run of the first season. In season 2, several characters used it.
• Casting Gag: When Matteo asks Ada (or is it Eva?) "Have we met?", her response is "Maybe in a past life." Ruggero Pasquarelli and Candelaria Molfese are a couple in real life; they met on the set of Violetta and that is where their relationship started.
• Cast the Runner-Up:
  • Chiara Parravicini originally auditioned for Ámbar. The producers were impressed by her acting skills that they cast her as Yam.
  • Thelma Fardin, who also auditioned for Ámbar, was instead cast as Matteo's cousin Flor in a recurring capacity.
• Celebrity Paradox: The series exists within the same universe as Violetta. A large number of the main characters are played by actors who also appeared in the latter. This effectively produces a whole lot of Identical Stranger pairs.
  • Olga appears in a season 1 episode and interacts with Amanda (who is revealed to be her cousin), Tino and Cato. It's funny how she never notices how much the latter two look like Marotti and Rafa Palmer.
  • Violetta herself, Martina Stoessel, appears halfway through the second season. Whether she is appearing as herself or her character is not clear.^{Lengthy explanation (Spoilers for "Tini: The New Life of Violetta")}According to The Movie, Violetta was going to be named "Tini" by her mother, but they weren't able to register her under that name, so they named her after her grandmother (although the show itself stated that she was named after the play...) In light of that, she re-introduces herself to the world as "Tini" at the end of the movie. But "Tini" is also the nickname of the actress herself and all of her songs post-Violetta are released under that moniker. Now, back to Soy Luna: the characters only refer to her as "Tini", and the song she performs comes from Martina's debut solo album, which included songs from the movie on disc 2. Nothing about Tini's appearance itself directly contradicts any of the events of either Violetta or its movie. With Olga appearing in the previous season, this either means that the Tini on the show is the character, or there are two Tinis that look and sound alike that exist in canon. Did you manage to understand all that?
  • Jandino appears in the third season as Eric, Nina's new love interest. In BIA, where Katja Martinez reprises her role as Jazmín, he appears as himself. It is never acknowledged in any way that she has met his doppelganger.
• The Danza: Bruno is portrayed by Bruno Heder.
• Darkhorse Casting: Malena Ratner, Katja Martínez, Ana Jara, Chiara Parravicini, Lionel Ferro, Carolina Kopelioff, Jandino, Giovanna Reynaud and Pasquale Di Nuzzo - all of them came unknown into the show, which marked their debut on TV. Although Gio and Pasquale each appeared in Disney projects before: Jungle Nest and Tini: The New Life of Violetta respectively.
• Dawson Casting: The only young cast member who doesn't fall into this trope is Karol Sevilla, who is the same age as Luna throughout the series. The only other actress who is actually a teenager at the start of the series is Valentina Zenere (Ámbar), who is two years older than her character.
  • Notably, Ruggero Pasquarelli (Matteo) is 6 years older than Karol Sevilla, (while their characters are only a year apart) and two years older than Michael Ronda (Simón). Simón is older than Matteo, being out of school already, while Matteo graduates in season 2.
  • Simón, Nico and Pedro might be an exception - their exact ages are unknown; all we know is they are young adults, probably somewhere between 19 - 25.
• Dye Hard: Karol Sevilla's hair gets progressively lighter every season, going from her natural dark brown to almost completely blonde.
• Fake Nationality: Subverted. Every actor from the Multinational Team plays their own nationality.
  • It takes Fridge Logic to realise that the only subversion is, in fact, the title character. Luna grew up in Mexico after being adopted by Monica and Miguel, but she was, in fact, born to Argentinian Lili and Berni Benson. She is portrayed by Mexican Karol Sevilla.
• Hostility on the Set: Zig-zagged with Karol Sevilla (Luna).
  • According to an interview on Instagram, Karol refused to interact with any of her fellow castmates due to her staying strictly professional on set at all times and would rather isolate herself from them by hiding in her dressing room whenever they were fooling around during their breaks, returning only after they were back to shooting their scenes. Even Karol herself acknowledged that she had that problem as it is something she was taught to do by both her parents and Televisa, particularly the latter in which she had done some works before, one of them being La rosa de Guadalupe, also adding that with her and Michael Ronda being the only Mexican actors on the show, their ways of working were different from that of the Argentine actors.
  • Some rumours spread around that Karol was a "diva" to almost all of the cast and crew, evidenced by the fact that she immediately left a personal Whats App group for them to stay in touch with each other and during one skating rehearsal she, apart from the others, refused to help Malena Ratner when she tripped and fell to the ground. However, in early 2021, former Violetta cast member Samuel Nascimento confessed through a video that Karol was often bullied because of her young age and Ruggero Pasquarelli played with her feelings back while he was on a relationship with his former co-star Candelaria Molfese. Thus, she seeked support from her mother and used this facade as a way to protect herself, being it the reason why she was painted as the "mean girl" she was thought to be.
• I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Many actors who previously appeared on Violetta were also cast in Soy Luna:
  • Ruggero Pasquarelli as Matteo, Rodrigo Pedreira as Rey, German Tripel and Diego Alcala as Cato and Tino, and Ezequiel Rodriguez as Ricardo are main characters featured in the opening credits.
  • Mirta Wons reprises her role as Olga in one episode, establishing that the two series take place in the same universe.
  • Samuel Nascimento makes two one-shot appearances as Santi Owen in seasons 1 and 2.
  • Candelaria Molfese, who is also Ruggero's girlfriend, has an arc in season 2 as twin sisters Eva and Ada.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Caro Ibarra, who plays Nina's mother on Soy Luna, had a small appearance in the beginning of Violetta as an applicant for the job of Violetta's governess.
  • Outside of Violetta, Caro Ibarra was also a personality on the Zapping Zone block on Disney Latinoamerica. Appearing alongside her were Dani Martins, who appeared as a host of the competition halfway through season one, and Diego Alcala (Cato). All three of them, along with Santiago Stieben (Arcade) also participated in... the Argentine dub of Fish Hooks.
• Late Export for You:
  • In the United States, the show was going to be shown on the Spanish-language network UniMás in 2017, only to be taken off schedule. The first season was eventually shown on the network in 2018, and then the whole series was later made available on Disney+ in Spanish with English subtitles.
  • Despite the show's popularity in the Nordic countries, the third season never aired on the local version of Disney Channel (which has only aired the first two seasons), and it was not until April 2022 that it was finally released there, albeit exclusively on Disney+ and solely with subtitles.
• No Dub for You: Probably because of how badly the English dub of Violetta was received, Soy Luna was never dubbed into English. The series was still very popular in Latin America and Western Europe (sans the British Isles) though.
• No Stunt Double: All the actors did their own skating in the series. They went through intensive skating training before shooting began for this exact reason.
• Playing Their Own Twin: Candelaria Molfese plays twin sisters Eva and Ada.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: The "______, sobre ruedas^*"______ on wheels"" episode titles that circulate online are not official, although TV guides and Univisión have used them. They are not used on Disney+, nor were they used when it was on Netflix. This is a tradition that was fans had carried on from Violetta.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: The best- known example is Lutteo (Luna/ Matteo), with Gastina (Gaston/ Nina) and Simbar (Simón/ Ámbar) as close seconds.
  • The first season also includes Lumón (Luna/ Simón), Yamiro, Pelfi (Pedro/ Delfi), and Jico (Jim/ Nico).
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • After Agustin Bernasconi (Gaston) decided to focus on his music with duet partner Maxi Espindola, Gaston was Put on a Bus, the in-universe explanation being that he has left to study at Oxford University.
  • Luz Cipriota left the show after season 1, due to her being busy shooting another series 2091, which clashed with the filming of the second season. This explains why Tamara was given this surprise-announced sendoff in the premiere. Cipriota wasn't even credited through any capacity in her last appearance.
• Romance on the Set: Michael Ronda and Ana Jara started dating in early 2018 before breaking up the following year. Giovanna Reynaud and Pasquale Di Nuzzo also started dating since the second quarter of 2018 and got married two years later during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Stunt Casting: This is partially the reason Ruggero Pasquarelli was cast in the lead role after becoming a fan favourite on Violetta. He is the only cast member who didn't have to audition for the series.
• Unfinished Dub: The Danish, Swedish and Norwegian dubs all cover the entire first season, and while the Danish and Swedish dubs also cover the entire second season, the Norwegian dub only covers the first 21 episodes of season 2, with the rest of the season being exclusively subtitled in Norwegian. However, none of the three dubs cover the third season at all, which in Nordic countries is exclusive to Disney+ and is only available with subtitling in the aforementioned languages.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The series was first supposed to revolve around ice skating, but the creators thought it would be better if the characters used it as a means of transport outside of the rink, causing the switch to roller skating.
  • Valentina Zenere auditioned for Delfi, before Malena Ratner was cast.
  • Thelma Fardin auditioned for Ámbar, before Valentina Zenere was cast.
  • Chiara Parravicini also auditioned for Ámbar and the producers were impressed by the performance. However, since she wasn't a fitting choice for a villain, Chiara instead gained the role of Yam.
  • There were plans to dub it in English in the UK, but it seems it only got as far as the first episode judging by the voice actors who put it in their resume.
  • Paulina Goto was initially going to be cast as Luna, the titular character. However, she was ultimately ruled out due to her filming the Mexican telenovela Mi Corazón es Tuyo.
• Written by Cast Member: Some of the songs for season 3 were written by cast members:
  • Ruggero Pasquarelli wrote the songs "Alla Voy" and "Esta Noche No Paro" for his character to perform.
  • Jandino wrote "Quiero Verte Sonreir" and "Mi Corazon Hace Wow Wow", and he performs the latter in the series.
  • Gaston Vietto wrote his character's solo "Decirte Lo Que Siento".

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