Movistar revives ‘the song’ with which we won Eurovision: “We did not want to make a historical series”

‘The song’ will flood Movistar Plus+ of Eurovisive spirit by remembering the greatest milestone in Spain at the festival: Massiel’s victory in 1968. That mythical “La, la, la”, which still resonates in our minds almost sixty years after triumphing in the Royal Albert Hall, will be in the epicenter of the miniseries that will see the light on May 8 on the Telefónica platform.

Just two days before that debut, the three -episodes fiction team has presented the project in Madrid. “The series makes it easy to tell a personality and an author’s vision. He does it for a very wide audience, which is something we have always sought, “Susana Herreras starts, responsible for original Movistar Plus+series.

To achieve this general attraction, it has obviously been essential to dissect a hymn as popular as that of Massiel. “We all know that song. At that time a lot of things came together: The most rancid and the most beautiful, the most terrified and most conventional. We can make a snapshot of the country when you see Massiel winning in Eurovision, “explains Pepe Cira, cooker of the series.

Even so, ‘The song’ does not aspire to be a particularly strict portrait despite its atmosphere. “We didn’t want to make a historical series“, recognizes the creator Fran Araújo, who has previously collaborated with Coira in ‘Hierro’ and ‘Rapa’. With that intention, the two screenwriters created a character, the television executive Esteban Guerra, whose main mission is Get RTVE to get a winning candidacy So that Spain projects an image of modern country in the final stretch of Franco’s dictatorship.

A different vision

The commercial nature of ‘The song’ is not at odds with a daring approach. “We wanted it to be very commercial, but with more author’s film decisions. We wanted something super accessible and that crossing was very appealing, “adds Araújo. In addition, even if they didn’t want to bow towards historical fiction, yes an exhaustive research work has been done To have an elaborate base.

“We were very clear that we wanted to raise the series from a historical rigor but With some freedom to revive a moment and bring it today“, clarifies the director Alejandro Marín, who ensures that the documentation has been” a road map “despite”Avoid historical solemnity“In this way, the complicity of the public has been sought at all times.” What you should aspire to when you do fiction is to generate a space for the spectator. When you create conflicts, you don’t want to send a messagebut to generate a space for the viewer to complete it, “says Araújo.

To the rhythm of Massiel … and Serrat

The person in charge of giving life to the winner of the musical contest is Carolina Yuste, who comes from winning the Goya for ‘La Infiltrada’. “If you have to think of an actress, I would not choose myself. But then I started to meet Massiel. I think we have things in common because we are Leo. Without wanting to make an imitation, I caught the essence. I obsessed with an interview with Massiel that I have seen as 68 times. And you also had to trust the director in case you went a bit, “recalls the actress, who describes this role as a” caramelite. “

For his part, Patrick Criado gives life to Esteban, the character that really serves as a conductive thread. “The tone of the series allowed to search beyond a naturalistic tonecertain licenses that allow you to throw yourself in the void, “reflects the young actor. Next to them, they complete the protagonist cast Artur Kaps and singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serratwho also played an important role in the event that spurss the series.

“Serrat was a very advanced uncle at his time. One of the big surprises has been to discover and enter his life. You give play to any interview and you see that he had a soul and charismThere was not much material about kaps. I tried to capture what they commented on him, a guy with bad milk but very close to the artists. It is this character that puts the mirror a little to power and there are brushstrokes in which it is not entirely coherent“.