The protagonists of Los Serrano have defended this Thursday the controversial outcome of the series, broadcast 18 years ago, in which it was revealed that the events that occurred after the death of Lucía, Belén Rueda’s character, were a dream of Diego Serrano, played by Antonio Resines. “It’s an ending that people remember,” Fran Perea summarized during the panel ‘Los Serrano: The reunion’, held at the San Diego Comic-Con Málaga.
Antonio Resines, who played Diego Serrano, participated in the meeting; Antonio Molero, Fructuoso ‘Fiti’ Martínez; Víctor Elías, Guillermo Serrano; Natalia Sánchez, María Teresa ‘Teté’ Capdevila; Jorge Jurado, Curro Serrano; and Fran Perea, Marcos Serrano. Among the absences, Belén Rueda, interpreter of Lucía Gómez Casado, stood out.
Regarding the outcome of the fiction, Resines explained that the team was “very tired” and that, although the public wanted the series to continue, “they couldn’t take it anymore.” The actor considered that perhaps the story could have been maintained with some of the younger characters, although he acknowledged that it was “very complicated.” “The absence of Belén Rueda also changed a lot,” he added.
Víctor Elías has pointed out, at the insistence of followers, that he would have liked to close the series in a similar way to ‘Seven Lives’: with a last episode before the public and the final revelation that the characters were on a filming set.
Beyond its outcome, Resines has stressed that Los Serrano changed the lives of “everyone and always for the better, especially for the better.” Between jokes, he recalled that a good part of the cast was very young then: “They were kids; me too, but less so.” In his opinion, the series meant “a change for many people”, not only for its performers, but also for television networks and production companies.
The actor has chosen as one of his favorite memories the filming of Diego and Lucía’s wedding, recorded at the beginning of the series. He explained that the cast barely knew each other and that at that time he did not know clearly how the fiction would evolve, which was filmed very close to its broadcast and initially had only “four” scripts. As he said, one “now sees the series and realizes that it worked.” “They kicked us out of the church because there was a funeral,” he recalled.
During the panel, the performers reread the first pages of the script and played to guess which character pronounced each phrase. Perea has acknowledged that “it is difficult to have something like filming ‘Los Serrano’ in your life,” while Molero has pointed out that meetings like the one at Comic-Con remind them of the validity of the series and its connection with the public.
There has also been space to imagine the possible future of the characters. Jorge Jurado has said that he sees Curro following in the footsteps of Diego Serrano and “forming an unstructured family”, in addition to staying in charge of the Hermanos Serrano Tavern. Víctor Elías has joked that the place would end up becoming “a 100 Montaditos.”