Urbizu mixes the fervor brother of Holy Week with the Civil Guard and the American army when no one sees us

This Friday, March 7, arrives at Max ‘When nobody sees us’the new series of Enrique urbizu. Maribél Verdú and Mariela Garriga They star in a tense thriller of eight chapters set in The Holy Week of Morón de la Frontera that mixes the “brotherhood passion” with a criminal investigation of the Civil guardian in which they are also involved Military of the American Base located in the Sevillian town.

Based on Sergio Sarria’s novel, ‘when no one sees us’ he tells us how “The daily, almost naturalistic life” of a town of “the deep Andalusia” and its customs and rites of a few days of exaltation and maximum fervor such as those of Holy Week, it is altered by several deaths and disappearances that are also related to the American “bubble” that involves Morón’s air base, operational since the 40s.

Those in charge of unraveling the mysteries surrounding these crimes, which even have “supernatural aromas“They are the Sergeant Gutiérrezthe officer in command of the Civil Guard in the Andalusian town performed by Maribél Verdúand the Lieutenant Castillothe intelligence agent arrived from the United States to investigate the disappearance of an expert cybersecurity played interpreted by Mariela Garriga. Two straight, dry and extremely competent women that will lead to another contrast: the Benemérita with “US military intelligence.”

“I had never worked with the Civil Guard in any of my fictions and I wanted a lot. It also seems to me a very, very attractive collective to work on and with him, “says Urbizu in an interview with Europa Press in which the veteran director also confesses that this series has also given him the opportunity to, finally, to be able to lead Maribel Verdú, since both had been trying to work together for a long time.

“We have been looking for all these years. She has not spared to tell me … And I, as soon as I read the script, in the first phase of the project, I think that at the first meeting I said that the protagonist was going to be Maribel, “recalls the director of ‘There will be no peace for the evil’ or ‘The box 507’.” We really wanted, eager. Well, I didn’t know that he had the same desire as me … but I did know what my desire were. I would have said that without reading the script“He said he checked that it is also the first time that he gives life to a Civil Guard agent.

“I had already made of the National Police, but nothing to do. This is militarized, it is something else … they go on the other hand. And it has been exciting“, says the actress who still remembers the first time that she was dressed in the uniform of the Benemérita and the Tricorn.” It is a shame not to have been able to do the whole series like that, because it places you in a different situation than when you go with your pants, your boots … that’s why I I always wore the ‘pipe’ behindbecause that also places you elsewhere, stretches you, “he explains.

Two strong and successful women in men of men

Both Verdú and Garriga agree to define their characters as two “very strong” and extremely “disciplined” women. Two strict, straight and even cutting researchers that occur from the first moment distant, with a kind of shell or a shell. Something necessary, unfortunately almost essential, for women when make a career in environments such as the army or the security forces, That until recently they were almost exclusively masculine areas and in which “if not, they eat you.”

“They are like that. We had our counterparts, say, that they were with us the whole series to tell us how you enter a house and how you really have to put that imperative tone, the theme of the weapon, the way of walking … They live in a world of men where they have always been denied and right now these women, who are many young people, have a minimum of two or three races. That is to say, its indisputable“Verdú sentence.

“And I think it’s not a thing you think: ‘Now I’m going to be the hard woman.’ It’s a consequence. This has made their lives, it is a consequence of the environment where they have studied and where they have worked that leads them to be like this“Garriga argues that as a foreigner confesses that she was totally impressed by the fervor and” the passion “of the Rites of the Holy Week of Morón.

The actress of Cuban origin, resident in the United States, recalls the “emotion” that she felt when she was present in some scenes in which the inhabitants of Morón de la Frontera recreated the processions. “And see the passion they have to do that and how they all get together. That is, it is not that one family does and the other does not. No, the whole town turns “recalls the actress of the saga ‘Mission Impossible’.

“As long as they are not confused with the Ku Klux Klan …”

“I have discovered one thing is that It has nothing to do with religion. Forget about religion. It is something else. I am not religious and it really is such a beast feeling what you live. I was rolling with the sunglasses … and less badly because I was crying, “says Verdú who does not dare to predict if the spectators of Berlin, Oslo or Connecticut who see the Max series will be able to understand that” Frvor Cofrade “.

“I don’t know that, because we, that Latin passion and that thing, suddenly … some are going to stay a little picture“, says Veru. More optimistic in this regard Garriga who believes that” they will learn a lot “and that cinema and television are an ideal vehicle to approach other cultures and customs.” I live in the United States, I am American too, and I have many friendships that see more foreign series and films than American because they want to learn from the outside world, “he says.

“I think the series will travel well because precisely the closest, most flat, is usually the most universal and is understood everywhere what happens to the characters and others. And in Connecticut, as long as they are not confused with the Ku Klux Klan …“Ironizu Urbizu.