Making its debut on the Malaga Movie Competition’s collection sidebar, Atresmedia’s newest collection, the light-hearted felony drama “Perdiendo el juicio,” follows a revered legal professional whose profession is grew to become the other way up after a significant OCD outburst all through a tribulation.
Produced by way of Atresmedia and Mediawan-owned Boomerang TV, the collection, which re-unites a lot of the inventive skill in the back of the hit display “Alba,” stars award-winning actress Elena Rivera. Montse García, director of fiction at Atresmedia, and Boomerang TV’s Luis Santamaría go back as govt manufacturers at the side of the display’s creators and screenwriters, Susana López Rubio, Javier Holgado and Jaime Olías, who additionally directs.
It was once if truth be told the good fortune of “Alba” that resulted in “Perdiendo el juicio,” which interprets as each “Dropping My Thoughts” – a possible world name — and “Dropping Judgment” within the felony sense.
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“Clearly, after the massive good fortune of ‘Alba,’ each in Spain and world wide, we would have liked to paintings with the creators once more,” García defined.
“We’ve labored rather well with them and we additionally produce other initiatives that experience labored splendidly, similar to ‘Entre Tierras,’ so we began on the lookout for proposals. We concept a felony procedural might be a captivating venture if we had a lead personality in a position to attracting audience and if the preliminary premise was once sturdy.
“With ‘Perdiendo el juicio,’ we’ve got a sequence that hooks you in, that matches completely inside its style, with episodic plots however others which are transversal during all the season. The manufacturing is superb, shot totally on actual places, and the inventive crew has performed a perfect task. I believe we’ve got a sequence that might resonate rather well with audiences.”
Praising Rivera, who takes on an overly other function from that of “Alba,” García mentioned it was once “a luxurious to have her on board.
“From the very starting, we had been transparent that Elena Rivera was once the perfect lead. Elena is an overly attention-grabbing actress who provides this personality extra layers, as she’s an overly flexible actress with a different sensitivity. I even have to mention that Elena Rivera all the time contributes to initiatives and makes the whole lot a lot more straightforward. There’s no higher actress for this function.”
In creating a display that offers with obsessive-compulsive dysfunction, the creators controlled to care for a balanced method whilst going through positive demanding situations.
“Sequence — and films too — come to lifestyles after they arrive on set,” Garcíe famous. “That’s the place the script merges with the director’s imaginative and prescient and the actor’s talent to interpret. And sure, the tone of ‘Perdiendo el juicio’ was once a problem, because of the complexity between lighthearted scenes and the dramatic weight that accompanies the protagonist and the instances they deal with in court docket. However I believe there was once a just right figuring out amongst the entire events, and the entire actors hit the nail at the head with their dedication to their characters.”
The collection, whose administrators additionally come with María Togores and Pablo Guerrero, premieres March 23 on Spanish SVOD platform Atresplayer forward of its primetime release on Antena 3.
García stressed out that the tale, subject matters and forged of “Perdiendo el juicio” make it an excellent display “that may captivate large audiences” whilst additionally reflecting a go back to procedural drama.
“For us, it’s additionally necessary that it supplies selection, each in our catalog and within the business normally. For a while, procedurals, that have all the time been a style carefully related to free-to-air tv, had virtually disappeared, and we’ve observed how persons are hungry for them. We’ve observed how ‘Fits’ has skilled a brand new technology of good fortune, and collection like ‘The Lincoln Legal professional’ have additionally triumphed international. Or ‘The Pitt,’ which just lately premiered, is fascinating many audience world wide.”
In that vein, “Perdiendo el juicio” additionally gives a common attraction that might draw in world audiences.
“Similar to with ‘Alba,’ it’s simple for someone on this planet to spot with Amanada Torres, the protagonist of ‘Perdiendo el juicio.’ As a result of on this society, everyone knows what rigidity and anxiousness could cause us and the way tricky it may be to get a 2nd probability. That’s the root of the protagonist’s tale, and from there, other instances and characters shall be very recognizable: suspense, comedy, flirtation. ‘Perdiendo el juicio’ is an overly entertaining collection that may be a success in Spain and in another country: it has the components.”
Along with “Perdiendo el juicio,” which unspools in Malaga on Friday, March 21, Atresmedia is presenting its new musical collection “Mariliendre” on the fest. Set to premiere on Atresplayer in April, the display follows a bunch of homosexual buddies in Madrid who reconnect and reminisce concerning the previous and the musical hits that marked their formative years.
