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Wrinkles, dark circles... the pain is not covered with makeup.

The pain of losing a daughter, of seeing worms coming out of her skull dressed as a bride -yes, worms-, does not understand foundation, mascara or lipstick.

The murder of Susana Macaya

could have been just another murder, but it was not.

She was found tortured through a heinous ritual, brain-drilled and devoured 24 hours before her wedding.

Six years ago, her sister Lara died in the same way.

Is there, therefore, an innocent behind bars paying for such an atrocity?

Only a cold and emotionless person could face something so terrifying.

Elena Blanco is "a brutal inspector with many ovaries", as she defines herself, who will fight to solve the most macabre case of her career and who gives life to the protagonist of the version of the

Gypsy Bride

by Carmen Mola (pseudonym of Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero) that

Paco Cabezas

has brought to television.

An adaptation with an international perspective that arrives this September 25 at Atresplayer Premium after its successful presentation at the San Sebastian Festival.

After his career in Hollywood in series such as

Penny Dreadful

and

Fear the Walking Dead

, the Sevillian director "had a thorn in his side:

apply everything he had learned over the years to a series in Spain

with personality and depth".

And that is what

Gypsy Bride

promises to be , a thriller full of mysteries and enigmas, but with a very local, very Spanish air.

If Camarón even sounds.

Cabezas chose Nerea Barros

for the skin of Elena Blanco

, the winner of the Goya for

The Minimum Island

.

The detective is an intelligent woman, a drinker, intense in her sexual relations, with a penetrating look and dark circles under her eyes that show her obsession with work and her trauma: the disappearance of her son.

Next to her will be Orduño, a sly policeman played by

Vicente Romero

who, in his own words "takes the viewer out of the darkness and creates a counterpoint to a certain comedy."

His jokes, by the way, were devised by Cabezas.

His team is completed by Chesca (Lucía Martín Abello), the tough aunt of the team, Ángel Zárate (Ignacio Montes), the handsome and cool, and Mariajo (Mona Martínez), the

hacker .

.

And a little further on, great performers like Darío Grandinetti and Mónica Estarreado appear.

His reply is given by the world of the gypsies that announces the title of the series.

The actress Susana Macaya is Roma in fiction and in reality, as are the rest of the Roma characters, something essential for the director.

He "he wanted all the gypsy characters to be played by gypsy actors"

.

The obsession was to reproduce her culture with respect and rigor.

And with beauty: Cabezas says that the most beautiful shot of his career is the one of the funeral of the bride.

In that search for the authentic, Cabezas dares to portray physical pain with hyperrealism, from Susana's numb hands to the worms finishing devouring her brain.

All this bathed in a chiaroscuro aesthetic, with shades of David Fincher but

in a Madrid of sinister fable

.

The end, says Cabezas, "is to move, whether it's laughter, fear or excitement, because I make movies to move people."

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