Madrid (EFE).- Santiago Segura returns ready to conquer the summer box office with “Vacaciones de verano”, a new family comedy written with the actress and screenwriter Marta González Vega, with whom he already formed a tandem in the blockbuster sagas “Father there is no more that one” and “A todo tren”.
Since 2018, Santiago Segura (Madrid, 1965) has held the leadership of the national box office after the premiere of “Father there is no more than one 3” and last year he reached 15.61 million euros in revenue with “A todo tren 2” , produced by Bowfinger International Pictures, the company of the actor and director.
“The pressure exists, but not for the fact of bursting the box office but for not disappointing those people who follow you and who are waiting for you. But I think we are going to be lucky because I think this film is the same or better than the previous ones ”, Santiago Segura assures EFE, who is going to be without vacations because he is already writing next year’s one. “Making a movie a year is hard.”
A pressure for the box office that her co-stars Patricia Conde (Valladolid, 1979) and Cristina Gallego (Cáceres, 1979) experience differently, who play Segura’s ex and her new partner, respectively.
“It’s really hard for me to feel pressure with something so cool. If you tell me that I am a neurosurgeon, I would feel it, but with something like that”, says Patricia Conde, since they are aware that the film has “assured success. For many families it is a great plan to go to the cinema in the summer, eat some popcorn and watch a movie like this, in which everyone laughs”.
“En vacaciones de verano” Segura and Leo Harlem give life to two unemployed friends who are forced to accept a job as children’s entertainers in a luxury hotel. Both divorced, they have to take care of their children in the same period and decide to take them away in camouflage.
Parents, they indicate, that they are a reflection of a plural society, which is constantly changing. “Before, in the family, summers were all together and now these situations occur, we have to live with it and we have to make a profit”, comments Harlem with amusement.
Conde and Gallego note that the relationship between the two in the film is very well established, in a display of wanting to maintain a cordial American-style relationship, but at the same time with a very Spanish feeling.
Characters who live their encounter from “a very ironic site and with a lot of humor, appearances. Although – Conde defends himself between smiles – I’m a bad guy who has to be liked. A person who has no filter”.
Segura is grateful to the people who follow his work, for whom he feels the responsibility of making them laugh and have a good time. “That they like it so much that they wait for the next movie to go to the cinema, it’s nice.”
with Harlem
With Harlem (Madrid, 1965) he forms a couple that works and has created a brand image where all the films have points in common, “but they offer different things”.
“I have always liked cinema for the whole family,” warns Segura, who points out that his objective and “a challenge, above all” is to reach all audiences. “With humor you have to try a lot, but my idea is that children enjoy and parents too. I still have the child in me and that helps me”.
Harlem, a monologue in programs such as “El club de la comedia”, points out that humor has become “a risky sport, especially due to the repercussions it has on social networks. It is controlled at levels that do not happen with the drama. People are scandalized by a more or less lucky joke and then minors appear taking drugs or being the beast and nobody says anything.
It will hit theaters on July 6.
“Vacaciones de verano” will hit theaters on July 6 and has included twenty children among the leading actors, including Sirena Segura, Javier García and Hugo Simón, Rodrigo Giabja and Nicolás Rodicio.
“Many are repeaters. There is a special trust. It is not difficult to work with them. I am very lucky”, says Segura, while Harlem points out that “they are wonderful. Children today have a totally different relationship with the world of images. They are recording all day with their cell phones, they are cracks. Of course, then you have to be with them ”, she jokes.
Segura thinks that thanks to films like this, the public, especially the youngest, go to the cinema, which, he says, has not recovered pre-pandemic levels.
“Even I find it difficult to take my daughters to the movies, a tradition that is being lost because they have a very large visual offer. But you have to retain them, making them have a unique experience with 400 people around. We have to take care of that quarry”.