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How do you build the character of a murderer?
How far can morals dominate feelings?
How unintentional can there be in a murder?
If you are still one of those who have not seen the six episodes of the second season of
Hierro
, stop reading here.
If after watching it, you want to know the answer to these questions, this is your place.
Because this is how the character of the murderer of the series that accumulates the most viewers at the beginning of the year in Movistar + was built, according to the network, where they do not provide the specific data.
A 15-year-old girl hits her father, a successful businessman linked to drug trafficking and extortion, on the head with a trophy, and kills him for defending her 8-year-old sister.
All this in the midst of a climate of family violence, clans of drug traffickers and hitmen.
A set of personalities capable of killing for business, money, and power.
So why turn to an unintentional killer?
To
Agata
, a teenager?
"We like to think that from good reasons it can also lead to violence. From good reasons it is possible to destroy a father and herself to protect a sister, because of the love you have for her," explains
Pepe Coira
, one of the creators of
Hierro.
"That idea of defending her little sister that she is continually complaining about is very beautiful, it is the relationship of the brothers when they are children: they cannot stand each other, but deep down they love each other very much", complements her brother and co-creator,
Jorge Coira
.
These two Galicians are the minds that plot all the dark secrets of the Canary Island of
El Hierro
, the protagonist of the Movistar fiction of the same name: from gangster businesses to the role of Justice passing through murders.
And, in this last point, one of the resources was to go back to its origins.
"I had a friend that her grandmother always said in Galician, when someone apologized that she had done something without wanting to, the phrase 'Without wanting to kill a man'. And here you can see that it may be true," says Pepe Coira.
And who better than a teenager to embody that involuntariness.
Candela and Díaz, in a scene from HierroMovistar
A mistake until reading the script
With the murderer clear "from the first moment", how do you work that role with a teenager?
"We did not play at any time to maintain the mystery with anyone, but there was an involuntary point, a mistake. When
Naira Lleó
, the actress who plays Ágata, did the tests, we did not tell her anywhere near what her role was going to be in the plot. Three weeks before shooting we brought together almost the entire team on the island for a script reading. That's when she found out and it was a shock, "acknowledge the creators.
The involuntary, in the process of construction of the role, as in the murder in the series.
"We did not even realize it, we lost it and he already found out at that time," they both comment in a telematic connection with this newspaper, in which they reel off the main points of an ending of
Hierro
with a deeply rooted ethical and moral debate: justice or love, reason or drives, expiation or feeling of guilt.
And, in the center, a capital figure: Judge Candela (
Candela Peña
).
After discovering, in the last chapter of the season, the identity of the murderer, a conversation between the magistrate and
Díaz
, one of the
dark
characters
in the series, shows that moral duality in which
Hierro
lives
.
"Charge the dead to
Fadi
[the leader of the mafia clan], to that son of a bitch," Diaz begins.
"Things do not work like that," replies the judge.
"And how do they work? Sending a girl to a juvenile center and screwing her life? Don't tell me milongas."
"You don't understand it," Candela ditch.
"I really like that scene that synthesizes the two poles in the relationship of these characters: an enormous empathy and a vision of the world from both sides of the system and the law," sums up Jorge Coira.
"In Candela's mind, she does not consider that the girl deserves a punishment but that for her it will be better if she faces it, spend a few years in a center and not bear the blame for what she did forever. (...) Candela always weighs a lot what is on both sides of the scale, "says her brother.
Ágata and Dácil, playing tic-tac-toe, at HierroMovistar
The meeting
Finally, it is the adolescent who decides to surrender and goes to the judge's office to confess her guilt.
"It was unintentional," the teenager repeats twice to Candela during the embrace between the two.
"She feels a lot of affection for the girl, the history of that family has hurt her because she has been close and is also a mother. She understands the infinite sorrow for what is happening, but she cannot avoid doing what she has to do," emphasize the creators.
The triumph of the rational over the earthly
.
"It must be very tempting for her, she has it to the egg, you charge the dead to Fadi and that's it. But that would be the end, her life will cease to have meaning because it is something that goes beyond the professional, it is her ethics , their morals ", Pepe Coira deepens.
"Deep down, she does not even need to carry the dead body to the other, she could do nothing and maybe no one discovers it. She discovers it through her intuition, but she does not have the evidence until the girl tells her," concludes Jorge Coira.
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