The birth of the porn industry in Spain is linked to Nacho Vidal. Born in 1973 as Ignacio Jordà in Mataró (although he lived his entire childhood in the Valencian town of Énguera for family reasons), the pornographic actor began his career in the Bagdad theater in Barcelona and ended up conquering Hollywood after passing through Budapest. A success story linked to a taboo world such as this controversial and controversial industry and which is now addressed in Nacho, the new series that comes to the Atresplayer Premium platform this Sunday.
“Nacho’s life is a film in itself, of a person who has decided to live on the edge, which is full of great twists, many more than we could have created freely”, explains Teresa Fernández-Valdés, producer and creator of the eight-episode series for Bambú Producciones in which actor Martiño Rivas (El internado, Las chicas del cable) plays the porn star.
“Nacho Vidal is the icon and the banner that gave rise to the incipient adult film industry in Spain in the nineties,” continues Fernández-Valdés, who claims to have discovered “a very distant and different person” in the preparation of this series. of which he himself has built and sold, an affectionate, infatuated and romantic person and that many of the great steps he has taken in his life have been to follow a woman”.
The first of them was to enter the world of porn, at the age of 21, to be with his girlfriend, Sara. “He wanted to be with this woman and she was clear that she was not going to leave the sex business that had given her independence. To spend time with her and share her life project, Nacho accepted Sara’s invitation to work in the Bagdad room in Barcelona dedicated to live sex ”.
Impressed by the size of his penis (his famous “25 centimeters”), those in charge and the regulars of the premises exalted him. There he also met José María Ponce, a porn producer and director and at that time director of the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival, who introduced him to the world of adult films.
When the great Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi heard about him, he came to Spain to sign him. “Siffredi, who was a bit of his discoverer, took him to Budapest, where the great European porn industry was then, and there he began to shoot real adult films because in Spain it was still a gang of friends” .
After succeeding in Budapest, he met another woman for whom he took another decisive step: continuing his career in the United States. “After falling absolutely in love with Belladonna (Bellisima in the series), a porn actress for whom National Geographic was making a documentary, he decided to move to the United States to live there with her and try his luck in Hollywood,” explains the producer and creator.
A step that would end up turning him into an international porn superstar thanks in part to the experience of live sex in the Bagdad room. “The training of having to finish the job in 15-20 minutes and everything timed, meant connecting a lot with her partner on stage because she needed to feel to be able to finish,” explains Fernández-Valdés.
This training served her great success in the United States because what was usually done there was to stop filming so that the man could prepare to ejaculate and resume filming when he was ready, “which was very ungrateful for the actress because she was treated like a doll”. But since Nacho did not need to stop, “the actresses were very grateful and sued him.” He became an unusual actor and managed to have a great career in the United States. “Then he decided to return to Spain because he wanted to live at home and he brought everything he had learned with him: he also became a director and producer.”
A successful career for which Nacho Vidal, who is currently awaiting trial for alleged reckless homicide for the death of photographer José Luis Abad after a ritual with sapo bufo held at the actor’s house, has also paid tolls such as his relationship with their parents or with partners who did not accept that they dedicate themselves to porn.
“Nacho’s ambition makes things fall by the wayside because his goal was to succeed,” says Fernández-Valdés, who advances a curious detail from the series, the special cameo made by Nacho Vidal, of whom only his male member appears at the end of the first episode.
