Borja R. Catela Madrid
Madrid
Updated Monday, February 12, 2024-21:34
Any time passed was better. Or that's what the celebrities who have participated in the second season of
The Road Home
must think , the program that premieres on laSexta this Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. The space presented by
Albert Espinosa
returns to the Atresmedia channel's grid to show how six new characters awaken the child they still carry inside by traveling, once again, the route from school to their childhood home.
In this new journey, the protagonists will be
unable to control their feelings and emotions
as they remember
smells and places
that will take them back in time as if they were in Marty McFly's DeLorean from
Back to the Future
, but this time with the iconic yellow backpack. of the program that Albert Espinosa always gives them at the beginning of each program.
"This season, we have improved the backpack we give them, which in the first season we made very quickly. The truth is that it is very pretty and at the end of each delivery we give it to them. They are excited about it," says Espinosa. "We have already distributed 12, plus my two, 14,
hopefully we will do six more in September
," adds the writer in a telephone conversation with this newspaper.
The protagonists of the installments of this second season will be
Máximo Huerta
, with whom he will travel to Buñol (Valencia);
Alaska
and
Norma Duval
's trip from school to home
will be in Madrid;
David Bustamante
's
will be held in San Vicente de la Barquera (Cantabria); while the last two will be in Andalusia: in Córdoba with
Manuel Díaz El Cordobés
; and in Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville) with
Roberto Leal
.
The format produced by
7yAcción
(the same production company as
El Hormiguero
or
El Desafío
) was nominated at the
Rose d'Or Latinos
in the category of Best
Reality
or Factual Program along with
Joaquín, the rookie
; the Mexican formats
Libre de Rier
(which was the winner),
Gato Grande
and
Mexicánicos
; the Brazilian
Viajando com os Gil
; and the American
Los Montaner
. "It was very nice to be nominated for the Latin Rose d'Or and
I hope there is an international version
," says Espinosa. And they may succeed, since
Jorge Salvador ,
Pablo Motos
' partner
in the production company, commented in
El Hormiguero
, when they presented the award they received for Best Comedy or Variety Entertainment Program, that there were countries interested in making their own. version of
The Road Home
.
Albert Espinosa
is the creator and soul of the format, and although this is his first experience as a presenter, he has extensive experience as a
writer
(he has launched more than a dozen works with great success),
screenwriter
,
director
and
producer
on television. , theater and cinema, with the
Red Bracelets
series being one of his greatest successes.
Did you expect a second season of
The Road Home
to be broadcast ? When we did the first one we didn't know if it would be renewed and the truth is that we had a great time in this second one. And the thing is, just as in the first one it was very difficult to convince people to do the program because they didn't know it, in this second one it has been the other way around, many famous people offered to participate, so I hope there is a third season. What Are there differences between one and the other? We have added, through recreations, the stage of the guests from when they were little, performed with actors, which have been very cool and which recall some moments from the lives of famous people. It looks very nice. But the idea remains the same, to walk home from school in the same way as the first season. It is true that this year we knew how to do the program better and the recordings have been faster. And also because the guests who came, as they already knew the program, were more predisposed to everything. How did you see yourself presenting it? I had a great time. It's like recreating the walk home from school with six friends, even though they all say they won't cry, and in the end they do. When they arrive at school, that smell, that path they took home, and they themselves return to their childhood. Furthermore, since we are a program that does not interest us in what they have done in their lives or the partners they have had, they also relax a lot, since they only have to talk about what they were, not what they are. Perhaps the big change for me is that, as I have changed the prosthetic leg that I wear (at the age of 13 he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a disease for which he ended up having to remove a lung, part of his liver and a leg), this year he has It's been easier to walk all the way home (laughs).
"Guests relax a lot, since they only have to talk about what they were, not what they are"
Why do they say that the first program of this season, Máximo Huerta's, is impossible not to cry when watching it? I think because it has a very powerful story. A conflictive but at the same time loving relationship with his father. He also has a special connection with his mother. There was a moment in the recording that lasted about eight minutes in which everyone who saw it cried. And I think it's because it's exciting to see someone on television who opens up, which is something that rarely happens, speaking openly about a conflictive relationship with a parent in that way... I think everyone who has had conflicts With his family he can feel identified. It is a very special moment. And what can you say about the rest of the protagonists? That they all cried (laughs). The walk through San Vicente de la Barquera with Bustamante was very nice and I was very surprised by his strength, his intelligence, his clarity. When I went with Roberto Leal I imagined him as the hooligan boy that he was... There have been six very different and very fun programs. We had a much better time than in the first season, when we recorded more hours, more editing... In this one we have been much more direct, although we don't have a script as such, just a conversation. There have been very varied ways home. And what was your way home like as a child? My way home in Barcelona was long, almost 36 minutes walking and for a child who had to do it in the morning, at lunch twice and in the afternoon... I walked two and a half hours a day.
Albert Espinosa remembers that "it was a somewhat conflictive road because in the 80s there were many robberies on Avenida Diagonal" and he and his friends were robbed several times. "There were seven or eight of us and I was the one who lived furthest away, so I said goodbye to everyone until I got home," he tells us. "Also, since I was one of the few who went home to eat, those who didn't go out asked me for a lot of things when I came back like knickknacks or pipes, I was like my classmates'
dealer
. Now, the stores have changed, but the "The rest remains the same. It's a fun memory," he adds melancholy.
As a good soccer fan and fan of FC Barcelona: How do you see your team this year? I am one of those who dream few things, but those that I have dreamed have come true and I have put them in the books, like that Messi would win a World Cup and score two goals. And it happened. And also the pandemic. Three years earlier I wrote a book about it. This year I dreamed that Barça won the Champions League. I am a friend of Xavi Hernández and I have told him: "Don't have any doubts, because I saw in a dream that Barça won the Champions League so I am very calm and very convinced that we will win this year."