With a trip through southern Italy with rapper C. Tangana, the fifth season of Lo de Évole begins this Sunday (9:25 p.m., La Sexta). A first episode “that draws from that road movie with David and José Muñoz from Estopa por los Monegros and also from the program we did with Maruja Torres,” Jordi Évole points out to La Vanguardia. “We went to Italy because C. Tangana likes this country and is very inspired by the filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino.”
The trip takes place along the Amalfi coast “and there we have chosen a hotel that had been a convent and that was very good for us to convey the idea of ??a spiritual retreat and to be able to talk about life.” A formula that has allowed a more personal and intimate portrait of the guest. “As the years go by, you realize how the guest’s disposition changes when you have an hour and a half or when you live together for a few days. The degree of intimacy and trust grows a lot and allows the interview to be different from any other I have done before.”
The moment when C. Tangana and Évole give each other a massage (“I try to go one way and he another”) or when they travel on the boat that connects the towns of the Amalfi coast are two of the funniest moments of the episode . “From the first minute it is not a give-and-take interview but a conversation between two people who share stories and points of view. It is a path that I really like to practice.”
This formula of living with the guest will be present in more installments of the season. The director and conductor previews two of those that are already recorded. One with Ana Belén, “who went to Menorca for four days, which is like a second home for her and where we will listen to her talk about topics that she usually doesn’t touch on,” and another with Albert Pla, “who are going to the mountains with a kind of camp.” of survival; “I think it’s the funniest show we’ve ever done.”
Évole will also spend a few days with some guests who are back in the news for the film The Snow Society: the Strauch cousins ??(‘Fito’, Daniel and Eduardo), three survivors of the Andes air tragedy of 1972. The team of the program moved to Uruguay to share a three-day stay on a farm near the town of Florida. “I thought that this story was already completely explained but in this program details that had never been given before were given and that, in fact, a relative of the cousins ??found out right there,” says Évole, who sees this chapter as “an ideal complement” to the film by J.A. Bayonne.
Évole advances two more episodes of the season: a conversation with former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Madrid attacks of 11M and the victory of the PSOE in the general elections on 14M: “A few crucial days of the recent history of Spain and that explain many things that we are still suffering from today, such as the polarization of Spanish society.”
And along the lines of interviewing each season characters “not yet well known in the media but who will end up being so, as we already did with Ibai Llanos or Morad”, this year he will speak with Henar Álvarez, “a communicator, especially through streaming and in podcast format , which speaks especially of the female sex.”
Évole’s debut season is fully consolidated in La Sexta. It closed the fourth edition as the network’s most watched program in 2024, for the fourth consecutive year, with an average of 1.2 million viewers and an 8.5% share. “When I left Salvados I was exhausted from recording 20 programs each year and with Lo de Évole I have gone on to do 10 that I like that are like 10 penalties that you have to shoot and score all of them, nice and in the square. For us, they are 10 pearls that we work on as if they were the 10 songs on an album,” says a satisfied Évole.