With People speaking, Álvaro Carmona was nominated for the International Emmy for best short format. There it showed ten minute conversations between ordinary characters. When he set about writing his next project, he imposed four rules on himself: that his creation would be unlike anything he had ever seen, that the series would be redefined in each episode, that it would not take place in this universe, and that the main thesis was “how strange life is today.”
This is how Déjate ver came out, a conceptual comedy that can be seen on Atresplayer and with an absurd starting point: Ana (Macarena Sanz), who works for the Iberian Banksy, discovers that her toe is disappearing. It is a progressive disease that usually affects older people and, if their lifestyle does not change, their body may slowly disappear until it ceases to exist.
“I wanted to form a different world,” he confesses, “to criticize the things that really happen.” It sounds abstract but with examples you can understand it perfectly. In Ana’s universe, there are metadietists. If someone wants to lose a few kilos, she puts all the properties and bank accounts in her name and, if she doesn’t meet the goals, the nutritionist keeps everything. “In the first week they already lose weight,” proudly explains the character played by Irene Minovas, the protagonist’s scene-stealing friend.
On airplanes, tourist passengers can fly as if they were in first class if they pay an extra fee to experience the experience with virtual glasses. And, in Ana’s universe, there are also sample brunches in restaurants so that customers can take a photo with them and upload it to networks without having to eat.
“We have gradually reached a degree of superficiality that we do not realize: we are almost there, at the sample brunch,” acknowledges Carmona, who rejected the idea of ??turning fiction into a collection of gags from his particular universe: “The story It can’t really be more intimate because it only focuses on one person. Macarena Sanz is the protagonist like few others: she appears in all the scenes.”
At first he feared he had made a mistake when he was in the writing phase of the first season: “I got very overwhelmed because that character had to carry the entire series behind him, he had put all his eggs in one basket.” But, as soon as she saw Sanz’s first video and his first casting, she suddenly saw his work: “I thought I already had 50% of the series done and Maca gave three thousand dimensions to the character I wrote.”
In Déjate ver there is a lot of Carmona himself. “At the premiere, many friends told me that watching the series was like sitting with me for a while, as if everything I am was in the series, and since it is an author’s series, it’s good that it is.” Like every person who dedicates themselves to creating, he has lived with the fear of not being seen: “It is difficult to escape from this fear. In my stand-up days I got quite frustrated, I felt like I wasn’t doing as well as I should. Now, however, I am more Zen.”
Now he does not give as much importance to popularity as to the creative process and result in themselves: “I am very satisfied because I understand that my role is to make something interesting, beautiful, that someone sees it and feels that it is original, and I think I have achieved it.” ”.
