A day in the ins and outs of La Promesa: the new TVE desktop series that is filmed as a 'prime time' 'thriller'

Some predict that it will be

Spanish

.

Others await with expectation a war of audiences that promises to be bloody.

The only thing that remains clear before the premiere, this Thursday, of

's new bet for after-dinner is that the public entity has thrown the house out of the window.

It is cold in front of the industrial warehouses that shelter the sets in which the interior scenes of

take place .

Nothing suggests that behind the walls of those vast gray buildings lie the rooms of the luxurious house of the Marquises of Luján.

Nor that crossing its doors is embarking on

.

It is a shooting profile more of

than of daily series

José Pastor, Director of Fiction and Film at RTVE

The visitor enters, how could it be otherwise, through the service area.

Not everyone can step on the noble part.

, the great European war is about to break out, but life passes calmly in the

, Granada.

Or so it seems, at least.

, and the housekeeper,

, receive in unison

.

They will be just the first characters of the twenty that make up an ensemble cast with faces from always together with new promises to compose a story full of love and mystery that aims to hook viewers after eating.

Nothing easy in a strip with almost absolute dominance of

, which chains

with

, and in which TVE does not even come close to two figures of screen share.

Joaquín Climent and María Castro are the butler and housekeeper in 'La Promesa' on TVE.BAMBÚ PRODUCCIONES

Hence RTVE's huge commitment to one of its biggest blockbusters together with StudioCanal in collaboration with Bambú Producciones.

The

, which Tamara Falcó inherited from her father, and the

estate , in Guadarrama, serve as an incomparable setting for magnificent exteriors shot with the latest technology and a team of 165 people.

The combination between

and love is the perfect cocktail to recover that gap that we have lost and foreign series are occupying

Josep Cister, creator of 'The Promise'

For the scenes that take place inside the residence of the Marquises of Luján,

cared for down to the smallest detail with two floors, that of the servants and the noblewoman, rebuilt into rooms with fourth walls and corridors that allow a very wide depth of the planes and that surround the patio, heart of the infrastructure.

Next to it, a hangar loaded with tools shelters the model of an airplane that will have great importance in the plot.

"It's a shooting profile more for

than for a daily series," admits

, director of Fiction and Cinema at RTVE.

Perhaps that is why this Thursday the premiere does not take place after dinner, but from 10:50 p.m. and after a special program of

to which four of its protagonists will attend:

,

,

and

.

Ana Garcés embodies the protagonist of 'The Promise', the servant Jana Expósito. BAMBÚ PRODUCCIONES

The idea of ​​RTVE was to recover "the series of a lifetime, which are the ones that work best", in the words of

"The return to a classic with a premium spirit, with a deployment that is not normal for a daily series", apostille

, creator of the series.

Indeed, the bill for La Promesa is reminiscent of

or

, other Bambú productions that were broadcast in

.

"The

is the perfect cocktail to recover that space that we have lost and foreign series are occupying," says the executive producer, in clear reference to the "cup" genre.

.

Suddenly I share a dressing room with María Castro, for me all this is a bit surreal

Ana Garcés plays Jana Expósito

Ana Garcés

, practically fresh out of the Valladolid School of Dramatic Art, arrived in Madrid and found the great role of her life.

She plays the protagonist,

, a servant who comes to La Promesa to avenge the death of her mother and find her lost brother.

"Suddenly I share a dressing room with

, for me all this is a bit surreal, I thought they had made a mistake," she confesses, characterized as Jana and sitting in one of the luxurious seats in a noble area to which her character will not have much access. .

At least for everyone to see.

Her day begins at 6:00 in the morning, when the production car comes to pick her up.

It was the early morning that humanized the great actors with whom she had grown: "We are all normal at that time," she jokes.

After a long time of makeup and hairdressing, time requires, the long filming begins.

"Sometimes you have down time, sometimes nothing and you have to do it all running... You never know," she says.

When she finishes the field work, she has to start studying for the next day.

"My life for the last four months has basically been

," she confesses.

Manuel Regueiro and Eva Martín play the Marquises of Luján in 'La Promesa'. BAMBÚ PRODUCCIONES

On Jana's path, an evil

, Cruz, played by

, crosses paths .

"It's a series that has many ingredients to engage the public, including the youngest," says the actress, "it's very pretty to watch, the aesthetics are very careful and the scripts are fast-paced."

Everything hooks up perfectly and I really think that it will not leave anyone indifferent

María Castro plays the housekeeper

Three strong women from very different social classes carry the weight of a story of secrets, revenge and script twists from the first chapter.

It is this fluidity in the plot that conquered

, a veteran actress and also a veteran "script reader", she defines herself.

"Everything hooks up perfectly and I really think that it will not leave anyone indifferent," she says, "it is one of those series that you do and you are looking forward to seeing them at home, from the sofa."

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