The creator of Escándalo appeals to reflection in the face of the controversy over her "lewd erotic" story of pedophilia: "What would you have done?"

• Television Antena 3 seeks to eclipse the Telecinco Scandal with the premiere of Catch a million

Even before its premiere, the new

series has caused exactly what it announced.

, has arrived with just that: scandal.

As soon as the first promotional tweets appeared, social networks have exploded against a story that tells

.

The small previews of the series that

has shared as a presentation show scenes of high sexual voltage between the two protagonists, which have raised blisters in a hearing that accuses

of

or, directly, of "laundering" or making "apology" of a serious crime.

Even the pianist

, a victim of sexual abuse as a minor, has directly appealed to

not to turn "an important and informative work" into "a kind of

lascivious erotic

"Perhaps, miraculously, it will be," Rhodes concedes, though he advises: "

," do better.

"We are not used to the fact that the inconvenient character is the female one," says

on the phone , who ignores criticism: "I don't have social networks."

She plays

, a middle-aged woman tormented by a life marked by a lack of affection that culminates in an abortion and leads her to the abyss, although not the one she expected.

We are not used to the inconvenient character being the female

Alexandra Jiménez, protagonist of the series

"My job is not only to understand her but also to defend her, forgetting all moral judgments and immersing myself in that complicated personality to understand why she acts the way she does," says the actress.

The post-traumatic stress that Inés has experienced since childhood "derived into

," Jiménez describes, "she tirelessly seeks affection in a desperate, obsessive way, which only achieves the rejection of everyone around her.

Scandal, story of an obsession

is, for her, "a Greek tragedy with overtones of a horror story."

A story of pedophilia that, after being told a thousand times from the male point of view, focuses on a female culprit.

"I have done other stories in which girls have been abused, or in which they have been raped, and it has not generated as much controversy," says a surprised

, creator of the series and with great titles behind her, such as

or

.

I have done other stories in which girls have been abused, or in which they have been raped, and it has not generated as much controversy.

Aurora Guerra, creator of the series

"We are talking about fiction, it is not an opinion article or an essay or journalistic information, fiction is a reflection," she stresses, "I am a bit surprised but very convinced of what we have done, because it is a story that it dives into the characters in a very interesting way."

Indeed, nothing that happens in

happens overnight.

The protagonist, Inés, has grown up in the shadow of a selfish and detached mother to throw herself into the arms of an abusive and controlling man.

Her own daughter rejects and manipulates her, she seems to be oppressive, boring and insubstantial.

He is the spitting image of her loneliness and ends up making a decision that will end in tragedy, for her and for everyone around her.

It is precisely this complexity that attracted

, "the difficulty of understanding a behavior that you easily judge and punish."

In order to embody Inés, she had to put herself "in the bind" of empathizing with a sick personality, and finally Inés has inspired a deep "sadness" in her.

"The story traces a complex approach, it does not stay in the morbid relationship," says the protagonist, serious conflicts of the human being are raised and that is what is interesting.

I always seek to explore those miseries that ordinary people suffer in extraordinary circumstances.

Aurora Guerra, creator of the series

"No one is free," he alleges, "the most unthinkable things can happen to us and we don't know 100% how we are going to react in situations that probably don't even touch us in life."

Precisely, that empathy with what, a priori, rejectable, was one of the creator's objectives.

"When a story comes to mind, I always seek to explore all those miseries, those pains that ordinary people suffer in extraordinary circumstances," he explains, and invites the audience to "take sides":

.

"Indeed, a powerful story is coming," advances

, who embodies

in his first "complex character", a boy with a strong

after the death of his mother during childbirth that ends in the worst possible way .

He didn't even believe it when they called him, months after the

, to tell him that he was the one.

"I encourage people to watch the series, enjoy it, and then give their opinion," he says, "the series makes it clear from the first episode that this relationship is a crime, and it is not the only crime that is going to be seen ".

"Luckily we live in a society in which for now it is not prohibited to talk about certain things," says

, and defends fiction as "absolutely free ground for creation."

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