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  • Television Dreams of freedom: Cast, synopsis and everything we know about the new Antena 3 series

More than a year ago,

Atresmedia

wanted to continue trusting

Diagonal

(Banijay Iberia) to find together a series that would not only live up to being the replacement for the mythical, historical and long-lived

Amar es para siempre

- also produced by Diagonal - but which was a step further in the so underrated daily series.

It was then that

Jaume Banacolocha

, CEO of the production company, immersed his entire team in the complicated and mammoth task of, while filming continued, Love is Forever, at the same time making "a dream" come true -pun intended-.

And from there

Dreams of Freedom

were born , the series that starting this Monday will coexist for several weeks after dinner with

Amar es para siempre

until it officially becomes its replacement.

Pressure?

"Responsibility, a lot of responsibility, but we want it," responds

Alain Hernández

(Jesús de la Reina), one of the protagonists, along with

Natalia Sánchez

(Begoña Montes),

Dani Tatay

(Andrés de la Reina) and an extensive cast of actors from the new Antena 3 desktop series.

Dreams of Freedom

has 50-minute episodes - the first premieres tonight in

prime time

on Antena 3.

The plot takes place in Spain in 1958 and tells the story of

Begoña Montes

, a woman trapped in a toxic marriage, but with an optimistic and hopeful future due to her incessant search for freedom.

Themes such as family, love, rivalry, friendship and secrets will fill this new fiction proposal with plots, subplots and big twists.

Natalia Sánchez and Alain Hernández, in Dreams of freedom.ATRESMEDIA

Montse García

, fiction director at Atresmedia, and her team realized a long time ago the importance of daily and desktop series in a particularly difficult time for them with hundreds of content on dozens of platforms that allow the viewer to choose the where, how and when.

Competing against that was almost a utopia, but even so, Atresmedia did not give up.

They gave their place to

Amar es para siempre

and

Amar es para siempre

more than returned it by becoming the leader of their band practically every afternoon.

But the time had come to take one more step, to say goodbye to

Amar

in style, with more than a million daily viewers and finding the best possible replacement... And

Dreams of Freedom

arrived to take "one more step in the universe of daily series," says García.

"

Amar es para siempre

and

El secreto de Puente Viejo

marked a before and after on television, and whoever followed them had to have more (...)

We wanted to find a great story and carry it out. And we found it

," he says García, to which

Joan Noguera

, director of

Dreams of Freedom

, adds that "

Dreams of Freedom

has been an impressive effort."

"It's a new invention of how to do daily series because no one is doing this today," he insists.

There is no lack of reason.

Dreams of Freedom

represents a mammoth leap at the production level by becoming the only daily series with hours and hours of filming on location

- Toledo, Segovia, El Escorial, Madrid -

and with endless plots: "An effort has been made to script extraordinary (...)

All the plots are very powerful

. We give a voice to all those people who do not have one through our characters."

The speaker is

Natalia Sánchez

, the protagonist of

Dreams of Freedom

, a woman trapped in a marriage where the psychological and physical violence to which her husband, Jesús de la Reina, subjects her, burdens

Dreams of Freedom

with a social conscience of that its protagonists are very aware.

"I hope that all the Begoñas in the world see themselves reflected and can fight for their Justice.

She is a character to whom I am giving all the care in the world and I trust that she can serve to help the problem be seen, identified and acted upon

" , says

Natalia Sánchez

.

"Jesus is reflecting a type of man of the time that was very assumed in those years and that is not so different from what we see now"

Alain Hernandez, actor

"Begoña is the protagonist of the entire story," says

Alain Hernández

.

"It makes me very sad when I read the script and see the things that Jesus does to him that he doesn't deserve. I think he

is a character that will mark a before and after for television

," says the actor, who has played the most difficult role, but at the same time the most interesting, because for him playing Jesús de la Reina "is quite a challenge."

"We dedicate ourselves to this and do what they tell us and what they write to us. And then we propose giving more colors to the characters. That is a personal job every day. If I have to play a bad character, I try to give him colors to that you say 'it's not that bad'.

I hope that there is a Jesus team

," says Hernández, laughing.

"Jesus is reflecting a type of man of the time that was very assumed in those years and that is not so different from what is seen now," she says.

For

Alain Hernández

, Jesús de la Reina is a gift, although it also involves not only an interpretive but also a personal effort, since the actor has left his family in Barcelona to embark on this great project.

In addition, we must add what it means mentally to get into the shoes of the Reina's first-born: "Being angry almost all day is exhausting. There are days of filming when I am angry with everyone, with Natalia, with Dani, with my father, with "My cousins.

It's so tiring that there are days when I come crawling to the floor and I have to start studying angrily

."

Dani Tatay, in Dreams of freedom.ATRESMEDIA

Something that

Natalia Sánchez

agrees with, aware that filming a daily series involves an incredible amount of effort and even more so in a series like Dreams of Freedom in which the twists and plots do not rest: "The great challenge of this series is that they happen so many things that if I have seven sequences in a day of filming, in the first I'm crying, in the second I'm arguing and in the third I'm falling in love.

Emotionally it's exhausting

."

Because if there is one thing that everyone agrees on, it is that

Dreams of Freedom

"is a completely different story" than what the public can expect.

On the other side, "the being of light", as

Natalia Sánchez

describes Andrés de la Reina, Jesús' brother, played by

Dani Tatay

.

A kind of prodigal son who returns home and who will have to face not only the "immoderate ambition" of his brother but also other aspects of which they do not reveal anything.

"I'll just say he's the great savior

. "