'Showrunners'.
Aitor Gabilondo, the Basque producer and scriptwriter who will be lined with 'Patria'
Interview.
Carlos Montero, creator and 'showrunner' of the most watched series: from Elite and Physics or Chemistry to The disorder you leave
Daniel Écija is only 58 years old. It seems minor, if we say
it
is
only
because he has a career behind him as a producer of the most successful television series in Spain in the last 30 years, three decades that give many more.
Écija is the
showrunner
par excellence
: direct, write, sweep if necessary. In addition, he has achieved the impossible: to be well recognized in his union but nobody identifies him on the street. He goes to the supermarket so quiet.
"I have a very professional profile, after more than 40 productions and despite the vicissitudes I have had in my life. But there is not much to know about me either. When things happened to me, there were photographers at the door of my house. Not now I want to give my children anonymity. " Écija makes a veiled reference to
her years of marriage to Belén Rueda
, with whom she had three daughters, one of them, María, who died in 1997 from a coronary disease when she was a baby. Today she has a fourth daughter, Inés, four years old, with her last partner, Veronik Mendes. He also went out for a time with the model Vanessa Lorenzo, today Carles Puyol's partner.
Indeed, Écija is full of life.
"I keep my passion for work, I do a lot of sports, I lead a healthy life," he slides.
He is a man of the world.
He was born in Western Australia
, his father was a miner.
One of the many Spaniards who emigrated.
"I did not get to be 3 years old there, we returned to Madrid because my grandfather died. Over time, I returned to the University of Sydney."
The boy from Alcorcón
The taste for fiction comes to him by "accident".
"In COU left me two and the father of my best friend worked at RNE. I was in RTVE, I oposite, I was hired ... in the technical branch ... I was a kid growing up in
front of the television in Alcorcón.
We had town to go to in summer
. I discovered my interest in narrative when I worked as an editor in Estudio 1 ".
As a spectator he was caught by
Bonanza
,
La casa de la Pradera
.
Also
Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
.
Stories for not sleeping
,
Mercero's
Cabin
... John Welles, David E. Kelley.
"I was traveling to attend your lectures ...".
His favorite facet is the direction (
7 lives, Journalists, Family Doctor
). "I really like the set. Now I don't have time. I take all creative directions." Daniel is a
friend of the competition
, of Carlos Montero (
Elite
), Aitor Gabilondo (
Homeland
), Álex Pina (
La casa de papel
) ... "I watch a lot of TV and get immersed in the plot. The last series I have seen has been
Sky Rojo
, by Pina. I worked with him at Globomedia. And internationally, the Irish
Normal People
has driven me crazy
.
The Undoing
.
I am common in my tastes. An extraordinarily basic guy. I hope I don't lose him. "
The
program
La noche D
, with Dani Rovira,
has finished
.
Now she is
preparing a series on the life of Ángel Cristo and Bárbara Rey.
Christ was a sordid character ... It is not his good-natured style.
He portrays an era, short-term success always carries side effects ...
Écija sure makes the tamer an endearing character.
The white series puts him in quarantine.
"
Gambit de dama
is very white and is extraordinary.
I think it is about moving, there are no black or white series.
Love is an engine that moves the world. I love romanticism, friendship. The conflict is not in sex or drugs, perhaps in violence. The viewer is very intelligent, we disrespect him when something is not true. "
The producer likes characters that add more than those that remain.
"I like that in my series there is optimism."
Many actors owe their careers to him.
You are very of your people.
Francis Lorenzo, Emilio Aragón .... They are intimate.
We love us.
Emilio premieres program in Movistar, we were partners ... They ask him a lot for 'revival'.
That 'Los Serrano' come back does not depend on me, but on who has the rights.
'Los Serrano' was the bomb outside, Fran Perea is a star in Helsinki.
His eldest daughter acts in 'La Valla'.
Belén is an actress with a lot of vocation since she was 18 years old.
He obtained a degree in audiovisual communication in the US and later studied with Corazza.
Our children will have an easy first chance, but they will not make a living from this.
Écija
is resistant to the documentary genre
. We asked him about Rociíto's. "As a spectator I don't say no to anything, as a producer, there are things I don't know how to do." Everything you produce is your idea. But the chevrons are shaken. "Work on TV must be understood as a team.
I can't speak in the first person. In my production company, The Good Mood, we are 80 people when we shoot
. His partners are his brother and Javier Lorenzo, son of Francis. "My great professional and personal success is the people around me."
"I still have insomnia on the premiere days.
The audience data overwhelms me a lot
. If I fail, we don't have a job. I also want to respond to the trust of a chain that puts a lot of money on a project. For me, this job is passion, something that he orders me. I don't want to retire, I want to continue to be useful.
Add in my work and at home, with my mother, my children ...
Are you clear about your vote on May 4?
Yes, I am very interested in politics.
We cannot lose the framework of coexistence that we achieved in the 70s. The series do an excellent job remembering that Spain has not always been like it is now.
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