Frida Kahlo is getting the Netflix treatment. The Mexican art superstar’s life and works will come to the small screen in a blockbuster series directed by Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein that explores her rocky relationship with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera. María Renée Prudencio will be head writer on the streaming series which does not yet have a name nor broadcast date.
“The series is the story of a bomb wrapped in silk; a bomb that is the two of them, that is Mexico, and that is, inevitably, the entire world,” says a Netflix statement. The series is an adaptation of French novelist Claire Berest’s recent biographical novel about Kahlo, entitled Frida, which is described by the publisher as “a striking and lyrical fictional imagining of the vibrant life and tumultuous marriage of one of the world's most enigmatic and beloved artists”. Kahlo is having (another) moment this year with a show lined up at Tate Modern—Frida: the Making of an Icon (25 June-3 January 2027)—that explores her impact on women artists.