When the first season of

Sky Rojo

premiered, there was an unexpected blow.

A fiction of brutal action, shot with many 'tarantinesque' overtones, with remnants of comics brought to the small screen and with a "human destruction" behind it that was too shocking:

prostitution and trafficking in women

.

Today

Netflix premieres its third season

, in which

Sky Rojo

continues to maintain all its essence, while not giving up showing

"shit that happens in real life"

, says

Lali Espósito

, the Argentine actress who gives life to Wendy, one of the three girls who fight almost to the death to escape that torture.

That is the story that Sky Rojo

has been telling for three seasons

.

Three girls, Wendy, Coral and Gina, who end up in the hands of a fearsome pimp, who try to flee from all the humiliation to which he subjected them and who on the way to find a new life find the most extreme violence.

Murders, persecutions, escapes typical of the best Hollywood, surrealism, crudeness, brutality, utopia?

"If the scenes of

Sky Rojo

seem aggressive to you, the reality is much worse

. Do you know what happens in reality? What happens in reality has no name

. The human destruction that occurs in people who go through that situation it is irreversible. In fact, the series shows very little of that pain, but the pain and human destruction that it entails is not for a fictional series," affirms the creator of the series Esther Martínez Lobato forcefully.

They are humiliations and humiliations of such a caliber that we interpreted we were very touched

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In the first two seasons the story focused on that almost impossible escape,

this third begins with a new protagonist, hope

.

The three girls seem to be at the beginning of a new life, a life in which they find love, stability, in which they lose fear.

All except Coral, the character played by

Verónica Sánchez

and who, among other situations, is the one who maintains the umbilical cord with the horrors of the past.

"

Coral is the character that perhaps has cost me the most to leave on the set and not take me home

, especially because of the club sequences because you couldn't avoid hurting yourself when you lived them", explains the actress.

"They were humiliations and harassment of such a caliber that the three of us went home very touched," she says.

Verónica Sánchez, in a scene from the 3rd season of Sky Rojo.NETFLIX

Because if there is something that all the actors in the series agree on, it is

the difficulty they have had to play prostitutes and pimps

.

They refer to the emotional charge and the need, especially in male roles, to separate the work of acting from the personal.

Miguel Ángel Silvestre

explains it

, Moisés, the deceived henchman of Romeo (

Asier Etxeandía

), who chases the girls to the point of exhaustion, losing his soul and, practically, his life along the way: "It is very important not to judge the character from your person What stands

out

most about Moisés in this season is that he lives deceived

, but not only deceived by the lies he has been told, but the lies he has told himself to survive.

And I think they are the ones that hurt him the most."

Silvestre is one of the very bad bad guys of

Sky Rojo

and, along with him,

Etxeandía

, who plays the terrible pimp Romeo, and in this new season, as if there were few, one more hitman played by the Chilean actor

Tiago Correo

.

And all of them with the same dichotomy:

interpret despicable beings without judging

them .

Being able to count the edges of a disturbed soul I think is wonderful

Asier Etxeandia

"I have always done bad. They have never offered me a good role and for me that is wonderful because they are characters that do not leave you indifferent. It is very interesting to have a character where you can demonstrate human baseness. I am

not saying that to me My guts have not turned many times with Romeo and I have not returned home with a terrible feeling

, but being able to count the edges of a disturbed soul I think is wonderful", reveals the actor.

These "disturbed souls" immerse the viewer of

Sky Rojo

in a frantic chase in which there is not a hint of peace in almost none of the 30 minutes that each episode lasts.

Now, when it seemed that the girls could escape,

the series twists to climb one more step

.

Not only to the spectators but also to the entire team, who

have experienced authentic moments of panic in the recording of this season

.

Although the entire series is loaded with intrepid persecutions and extreme violence, in this new season its creator wanted to go one step further.

To the risky scenes by land and by air, he added one at sea that was a real headache for the scriptwriters and producers, but also for the actors, especially for the Cuban actress

Yany Prado

(Gina):

"We had a very bad time"

.

Miguel Ángel Silvestre and Tiago Correo, in Sky Rojo T3.NETFLIX

According to the actress, the scene she is talking about was so hard that without the support of the rest of her colleagues it would have been impossible to film it: "

It was a very strong, very powerful, very tired scene

. Feelings were on the surface, but I had the unconditional support of my colleagues and that made me feel very safe every day that I had to shoot it. I knew I could handle the scene because I had great support."

In that scene ,

Lali Espósito

,

Yany Prado

,

Verónica Sánchez

and

Catalina Sopelana

(Greta) flee in a boat in the middle of the sea, because in

Sky Rojo

everything begins with an escape.

The flight from a country, the flight from misery, the flight from mistreatment,

the flight from "a massive rape every night"

.

As Esposito says,

"the series is a bit like a Trojan horse"

, and he explains it by assuring that at first

Sky Rojo

shows a colorful world, bordering on comics, fantasy.

However,

"what is being told is shit that happens and that as an actress it was super difficult to face her

. "

And in that "Trojan horse", just like the Achaean soldiers did, many other messages are hidden.

For those who believe that what stands out in the series is its superficiality, its protagonists and creators advise them to peel back layers.

It is not just a story of prostitution,

it is a story of women who are "superheroines"

, as Etxeandía describes them.

Sky Rojo

could have been a copy of La Casa de Papel, but the creators decided to risk

Miguel Angel Silvestre

"We have to continue showing it. There are many places in our own country, in our own villages, towns and provinces where

the change has not yet been clicked,

" adds its creator, also the head of the successful Casa de Papel.

Because Sky Rojo "could have been a copy of the Paper House," says Silvestre, but they "decided to take a risk."

"And yes, I think the intention was to make a complaint and create a feminist series," she concludes.

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