Silvia García Herráez |
Madrid (EFE).- Raúl Cimas and Esperanza Pedreño are an “ordinary couple with a very monotonous life” in “Poquita fe”, the series that arrives this Tuesday on Movistar Plus+ with 12 15-minute episodes with the characteristic style of its creators, Pepón Montero and Juan Maidagán.
“The series focuses on the most everyday details of everyday life in a common neighborhood in any city. It is about a normal and ordinary couple with a very monotonous life and which lacks a certain impetus, for this reason a crisis grows between them that in turn they are not capable of facing, hence they need a certain push from their friends, in-laws , neighbors…”, Cimas tells EFE.
For their part, the creators – already experienced in comedy in series such as “Camera Café” or “Justo antes de Cristo” – add that the key to fiction is that “everyday life is seen from a very specific point of view, sometimes even uncomfortable, which is what causes laughter”.
Chaos caused by your social circle
The leading couple also faces the chaos caused by their social circle, like the parents of Berta (Pedreño) -played by María Jesús Hoyos and Juan Lombardero- who ignore her and prefer their other daughter (Julia De Castro), who is a disaster.
“The comedy that Montero and Maidagán do walks along a very fine thread and they make you laugh; That and the way in which the fiction is told is what made me get involved in this project”, confesses De Castro.
On the other hand, there is the mother of José Ramón (Cimas), played by Marta Fernández-Muro, with a past as a “hippie” and who today continues to be a free spirit. And there is also the lively neighbor, who is brought to life by Chani Martín.
A fiction that breaks the fourth wall -the imaginary division between the interpreters and the spectators- continuously, which becomes one of its most outstanding elements.
They talk continuously to the camera
The characters speak continuously to the camera and tell what is happening to them at all times. They are almost like a “voice-over” that present each situation, comment on it and even interact with each other, giving way to small fragments in which the fiction does develop with a usual mechanics.
“Nobody has asked us who the protagonists are addressing and the truth is that we appreciate it because we don’t even know it ourselves -the creators laugh-. It may be God, a kind of therapy that the protagonists do. We don’t know, but that’s the beauty of the format”, they say.
Cimas, however, believes that he is a writer or a filmmaker who has come to take notes on the neighborhood and its people, because in reality the neighborhood is the “real protagonist of the series.”
Likewise, he acknowledges that the part of the interviews was the one that was “easier” for him. “That was super good for me, perhaps because of my experience on television or doing monologues, it was the one I enjoyed the most. Like the dramatic part, it was more difficult for me. I have been handling a format like this for a long time ”, she affirms.
Regarding the duration of the format, the creators point out that fifteen minutes was the “ideal”. “We realized that something so dynamic, so exhaustive, would work much better with something tiny, simple, trivial, and that this contrast would give even more comedy”, they clarify.