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Updated Wednesday, February 21, 2024-9:30 p.m.
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"We are going to burn Madrid."
That is the motto of the second season of
El Inmortal
, the Movistar Plus+
series
starring
Álex García
,
María Hervás
,
Teresa Riott
and
Jon Kortajarena
that gives life to the members of the
Los Miami
criminal gang .
In the new batch of episodes that
Movistar Plus +
premieres this Thursday , the universe that
José Antonio
(
Álex García
) built falls apart little by little, both in business and in his family.
If the first installment was marked by excesses, now the protagonists will have to take charge of the consequences of leading a life without limits.
And the betrayal of
Fausti
(
Jason Day
) will unleash a bitter war in which everyone will be forced to take sides with the objective of taking control of the business, no matter what the cost.
The fiction, directed by
David Ulloa
and
Rafa Montesinos
, is inspired by the life of the gang leader, who operated in the Madrid night of the 90s, and shows the rise and plummet of a criminal reign built on trafficking. drugs and extortion.
After this Thursday's double episode, a new one will arrive every week until completing the six that make up this new season.
"The relationship between José Antonio and Isabel becomes more difficult in this second installment," highlights the protagonist.
According to him, each of the characters develops a maturity based on their experiences, and the melting pot of stories gives rise to a season "just as dynamic as the first."
Hervás points out, about her character: "We met a teenage Isabel who falls madly in love with José Antonio and who thinks that she has found her soul mate, the person she felt would complement her."
However,
things change when she becomes pregnant and the safety of her baby becomes her priority above all else
.
For this reason, he will ask José Antonio to stop: "He tells him that they have plenty of money and to focus on the girl, but both of them are pure impulse, pure revenge, pure instinct of ambition, of power, they do not calculate the consequences and everything." "It's starting to become very dangerous," explains the actress.
He will react, in the words of the actor who plays him, "like a lion belly up."
"He will surprise with the decisions he makes
," García announces.
Álex García, in The Immortal.MOVISTAR PLUS+
The creator of the fiction,
José Manuel Lorenzo
, moved forward with the presentation of the new chapters that had left an open ending in order to continue with the story, but Hervás and García acknowledge that even at the end of the first season they did not consider returning.
"I didn't think we could continue
," admits the actress.
«When we started recording these six new chapters, José Manuel asked me if we would do a third and I told him no way.
But at the end, the excellent work of the team made me see it with different eyes," adds her colleague.
Within the brutality that characterizes their characters, the actors do not give up trying to make the viewer understand the reasons that have led them to develop the evil that is reflected on the screen.
«I think about doing justice to the character I play, about finding the basis or the impulse from which he comes to do what he does at that moment.
What makes this series interesting is its psychology, it's not just people shooting and dealing," explains Hervás.
«I always wonder where the decisions they make come from to the characters: why they are so violent, how they feel, what they experience from their lack of tools in the emotional world...
What I want is to understand why they do things
.
And if you work from there, in the end the audience empathizes because they see that they may have felt that at some point, that the same viewer may have seen themselves at some point doing what they see on TV," says the interpreter.
"The actor puts himself in all the prisms of the character he plays," agrees
Álex García
.
«For this reason, the responsibility I feel every time I take on a project is to understand what I am saying.
In the case of El Inmortal, we understood what Spain was like in the 90s, and in the rehearsals María and I found points that linked personal experiences with what we wanted to give to our characters, who were now reaching a maturity that seemed interesting to us to sustain the story. ", he says, and emphasizes:
"But none of us would fall in love with Isabel or José Antonio
. "
María Hervás, in The Immortal.MOVISTAR PLUS+
"Your character may seem like a jerk from the beginning and there will be people who don't empathize with him, but there will be others who will because they will see other things," says the actor.
«
I trust in the maturity and responsibility of the viewers
because I watch fictions every week that tell of atrocities, and the most horrible ones are systematically the most viewed on the platforms.
They are crazy.
"I take my character as an actor, artist or creator as far as they allow me because I am always very clear that I am neither the director nor the producer of this series."
The actors use a reference, let's say, analog to gauge whether their series has been liked by the public, and that is the comments they receive when they walk down the street.
In this case, the verdict regarding
The Immortal
has been unanimous: «With few audiovisual fictions they have stopped me to want to tell me what they felt watching the series.
Many watched the first season in one go and told me that they had done episode marathons to get to the end," says
Álex García
.
María Hervás
, for her part, breaks a spear in favor of
Movistar Plus+
for its commitment to such complex audiovisual projects that, a priori, "are not such a sure success": "
They are things that are a little more risky
."
Absolutely Spanish product that is giving work to actors from here with creations, ideas and stories that are ours, because Los Miami emerged here, for example.
The second season therefore arrives today with the cry of
"let's burn Madrid"
, and both actors, with many years of friendship behind them, which is evident in the complicity of their half-hearted interview, confess that the expression is not theirs. someone else's: «
We have burned Madrid, Bilbao, Pamplona, many cities when we went on tour together
.
We have gone to quite a few karaokes because we are very enjoyable people," they confess.
"When we go out we are quite children, the
burning
is quite big for us," explains
María Hervás
, lest the reader get too carried away.
Álex García
comes to the rescue and returns to the series to remove responsibility.
Between laughs, he concludes: "That is the motto of Los Miami, and that is why it is tremendously far away from us."