Belén Rueda and Hiba Abouk are the protagonists of Eva and Nicole, Atresmedia’s new series about two powerful women who, in the mid-eighties, compete to be the queens of the luxurious and splendid Marbella nightlife through their businesses. two nightclubs that will compete with each other. A rivalry that hides a story of revenge that starts from the previous decade, when Nicole (Rueda) and Eva (Abouk) met in Paris and the former hired the latter as a waitress. She protected her from her, taught her the world of the night and they maintained a great friendship until the appearance of a man, Manuel (Andrés Velencoso), who captured both their attention.
The series, presented within the framework of the recent Malaga Festival, takes place in these two timelines. For the one that takes place in the eighties, the creator of the series, Daniel Écija (The fence, Christ and the King) assures that he was inspired by the businesswomen Olivia Valère and Régine Zylberberg, who ran the two very successful nightclubs in the area. which paraded the Marbella jet set and great singing and Hollywood stars such as Tina Turner, Liza Minelli or Sean Connery, who also appear fictionalized in the series.
“Olivia and Régine were two brutal women, very powerful businesswomen who broke molds but who had absolutely nothing to do with this story beyond the starting point,” Écija insists to clarify that this is not a biographical series. Eva and Nicole revolves “around the love, revenge and success of two women of different ages in two very different moments in their lives,” continues Écija, who wanted to develop a story that talks about “second chances” and “ of the important things in life such as friendship, education, family and all those that take away or should take away our sleep.”
Belén Rueda talks about her character who has achieved a very high business status in Marbella “which she does not want to lose when this friend turned enemy reappears.” In the actress’s opinion, one of the values ??of the series is that it humanizes characters “who seemed immobile” in the gossip press.
“The people who live alongside these characters somehow humanize them and see their desires, sadness, joys and frustrations, and that is when we realize that we are all evolving at the same time as the society that surrounds us,” says the actress who the last time she worked in Málaga was precisely in Marbella, in 1992, when she was recording with Emilio Aragón Vip noche, which was also produced by Écija, her then partner.
Abouk, who was barely a couple of years old when the series began and did not have the opportunity to visit Marbella, highlights for his part that the scripts of the series “are spectacular” and that there is also room for “thriller “, action and a lot of humor, which serves as relaxation.”
The series, produced by Atresmedia TV in collaboration with Good Mood, consists of eight 50-minute episodes and is scheduled to arrive before summer on the Atresplayer platform for subsequent free-to-air broadcast on Antena 3. The two protagonists are accompanied in the cast, in addition to Velencoso, Belinda Washington, Oliver Ruano, Ricardo Pereira, and Gonzalo de Castro, among others.
