A story of friendship, empowerment and sexual revolution of three friends. This is how the protagonists of Zorras, Andrea Ros, Mirela Balic and Tai Fati, describe the new series that Atresplayer premieres this Sunday with a double chapter (it consists of eight) and which is the adaptation of the first novel in the successful literary trilogy by Noemí Casquet.
Ros plays Alicia, a young woman with a stable life with her boyfriend in her hometown, Montgat, who decides to break with everything by finding a new job in Madrid. There she will end up discovering her true identity with the help of her friends, the bold and confident Emily (Balic) and the rather self-conscious and shy Diana (Fati).
The three friends will improvisely form “the club of sluts” with the aim of having fun, freeing themselves and above all fulfilling their sexual fantasies. “It is above all a story of friendship”, agree the actresses. “And clumsily,” adds Ros. “I really like to highlight that they are clumsy girls who don’t know how to do things well, which is a bit of life.” That is why she believes that “many women will feel reflected”.
The series claims “a different sexuality and non-normative bodies.” In this direction, the three actresses feel identified with their characters and their sexual revolution. “Emily is like me two or three years ago,” says Balic, for whom learning about this character in the series “has been like closing a circle.” On the other hand, Ros is united with Alicia by her existential crisis: “I also went through there and, like her, my friends saved me and also that revolutionary path to sexuality.” In the case of Fati, she identifies with Diana “in the acceptance of her body and her reconciliation with him.”
During the filming of the series, they shared a lot of time with the author Noemi Casquet and shared “what this sexual revolution meant for all of us on an intimate level”. That made it “suddenly easier to tell this story because we were on the same page,” reveals Ros. “The problem that we women have is that from childhood no one explains to us what happens to our bodies and that ignorance leads us to experience situations of non-consent and violence.”
For the filming of the sex scenes they have had an intimacy coordination team. “Without him we would not have been able to make this series the way we have done it, with such tenderness,” reveals Fati. “There was a determination from the executive production that care should be the center of the project and that translates into the happiness of the team and the security that the actresses have felt that is later seen in the series, without a doubt,” continues Ros, who remembers having worked without that team in previous jobs “and I don’t want to explain the difference; from an unsafe and dangerous place to a creative and stimulating place”.
The starting point of Zorras can be reminiscent of other series like Sex and the City. What is different about this new series? “With all due respect to Valeria’s friends, the big difference is that Zorras is more real and a bit dirtier but from a very interesting and battle place,” Ros responds. In Zorras “we care less about how we put ourselves and show ourselves”, he continues.
“And therein lies the authentic revolution, in seeing that bodies are different and when a certain age is reached, the boobs are no longer up here,” says Ros. “Show sex as it is and naturally, that I don’t do pirouettes when I go to have relationships,” Balic confesses while Fati points out that perhaps “it borders on the unsightly but it’s beauty just the same.”
On whether Zorras ’ is a title that could put off some potential viewers, Fati asks “not to get carried away by prejudices”. “Behind that title you will find tenderness and real women taking care of each other and growing up,” Ros responds. “There is something in the title of Zorras that is already very stained and sullied from other contexts, but there is one of that and there is of the other,” continues Balic. “And Zorras is empowerment, too,” concludes Fati.
