If one day he saw himself with superpowers, what would he do?
The question seems simple and the answer should not be less: fly, save the world, infinite strength ... But what if what I really wanted was to be crappy and end the bookmakers.
A more modest, more earthly mission, more of the day to day.
Wish granted, you have powers and share work with
Quim Gutiérrez
or
Clara Lago
, choose your character.
At a time when superheroes have taken the screens with their perfection,
The Neighbor
, which premieres its second season on Netflix this Friday, claims clumsiness as a virtue, social as aspiration and humor as a driver. "Humor is a kind of vaseline that allows you to put any subject on the table and the more absurd the better," explains Clara Lago. She is half
Titan
to show the miseries of the human being, but disguised in an
Ironman
style suit
.
And, on the other side of the couple, Quim Gutiérrez, who precisely vindicates "the shabby" as the essence of that heroic relationship. «The problem is not the powers, it is their underlying relationship, the ego, the pride and
the debate about whether when you deceive someone to protect them, it is right or wrong
. It is already difficult to maintain a relationship in normal conditions, if you put this in it, it is already terrible ».
If the couple is difficult, let's not talk about threesomes when the third leg is
Fran Perea
in fiction and in reality - «meta Fran Perea», as he himself states - making humor about himself and his characters in previous television appearances.
“I like to laugh at ourselves, the world of celebrities and their ego, we take ourselves too seriously.
If even in the script reading, the team was concerned that it was treated with respect and there was nothing that was excessive so as not to offend.
Javier and Lola, on the set of the Netflix series
In this context,
in a neighborhood not very different from what Carabanchel is in Madrid
or any metropolitan working-class neighborhood, it is time to put on the suit and go on missions: improve the conditions of the
riders
, avoid evictions and, above all, close betting houses. That is the path that
El vecino
traveled
, based on the comic by Santiago García, in its first installment and from which it does not come out in this second.
“It is not about making a documentary, but it is that the phenomenon has a tremendous scope and laundering. This is a good loudspeaker to show it because in gambling we have always imagined a gentleman drinking sovereign and hitting the slot machines and
in reality he is a kid coming out of high school betting 10 euros on a corner in a football match
", Quim Gutiérrez begins . And Fran Perea further delves into the fact: "We are in a moment of crisis and these businesses are entering working-class neighborhoods in search of a specific profile to destroy their lives."
That is the surreptitious growth of these places and this is the defense of those who want to end them in fiction and in reality.
In fact, Clara Lago claims that she was not "very aware of the boom" of game rooms until she discovered them in her scripts.
«It always begins as something harmless to bet one day, win and you go on, it is like any addiction, but you are not warned about it.
In the tobacco packages they tell you the consequences of smoking, but here they only tell you to play responsibly, as if that already worked, ”says the actress, whom Quim Gutiérrez complements emphatically.
"
It 's
like being
told you to
take cocaine all the time in
prime time
.
Get a part or just a half, but with responsibility.
It is inconceivable.
Fran Perea and Titan, in The Neighbor Netflix
That is one of the missions of Titan in its male and female version, but not the only one. Because there is no space in current public and private life in this country that escapes criticism sifted by the absurd humor of this fiction: from the political obsession to get the Olympic Games in Madrid to the importance of
likes
and networks social in the journalistic and acting career. “It's that life is like that, there is a lot of pressure from
likes
and
the more followers the more possibility there is of accessing a role in front of another person
. Before they were the models and now they are the social networks, but those things are happening ", reels Perea about the interpretation sector.
In the journalistic it is Clara Lago, whose character plays that role in fiction and is just filming a film with a similar theme, who immerses herself.
“The criticism is not the journalist, it is the system.
Journalism is a necessary and noble profession understood from the purity of giving truthful information
to the public.
Now the problem is to what extent the importance is placed elsewhere as the number of followers and
likes
instead of the real importance of what is being counted.
Once these problems are exposed, the only thing left to do is to solve them, but for that Titan has to appear and the fiction to become reality.
If when you look out the window, you see a character dressed in red, you have been lucky.
Problem solved.
Or not.
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