Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi are known above all for their role as creators. Paquita Salas is a cult series, Veneno made critics prostrate before them and La Mesías has directly redefined them as authors. But from Suma Content, their production company, they do not stop developing series with third parties and, after Cardo or Vestidas de azul, they have just placed a new project on Netflix: Superestar, a series based on Yurena, signed by Nacho Vigalondo.
It’s not like Nacho Vigalondo is a newcomer. He began as a television scriptwriter in the first edition of Big Brother with Mercedes Milá and, after breaking into cinema with the science fiction film Los chronocrimenes, which he also directed, he already remained at the forefront of the industry. Among his most notable projects are the film Colossal with Anne Hathaway, the series The Neighbor with Quim Gutiérrez, his work as an actor in The Other Side with Berto Romero and Andreu Buenafuente, and he also collaborated as a screenwriter with the Javis in La Mesías.
In Superestar, its objective is to focus on the artistic beginnings of Tamara Seisdedos, who made a place for herself in the popular imagination when she entered the radar of Crónicas marcianas in 2000 and became “the other Tamara” with respect to Tamara Valcárcel, who Yes he was successful in the music industry. And, thanks to her television appearances and the song No Cambié, she finally fulfilled her goal of being a music star, also releasing the album Superestar, although her television figure overshadowed her musical side.
The series, which will feature the participation of Claudia Costafreda (Cardo) as director and screenwriter for the six episodes, will contribute to the pop mural that, work by work, the Javis put together, either as creators or producers.
Let us remember that Paquita Salas served to parody the entertainment industry, with cameos by television stars such as Ana Obregón and Terelu Campos; Later Veneno served to understand Cristina Ortiz beyond her collaborations with Pepe Navarro, in a transphobic Spain; and, after The Messiah, which could be interpreted as a series inspired by the Catholic group Flos Mariae, they have the series Vestidas de azul about the protagonists of Antonio Giménez-Rico’s documentary broadcast on Atresplayer.
“There is nothing we like more than pop and looking back at the history of our country. If there is a wild time in which everything was possible, that is the time of tamarismo, where the most unexpected protagonists monopolized hours and hours of television,” Javier Calvo declares in the press release.
For Ambrossi, the important thing is that they have found the right person to talk about the artist who was born in Santurce in 1969 with the name María del Mar Cuena Seisdedos, although she would achieve fame as Tamara and later renamed herself Ámbar to currently called Yurena: “When you face a series based on real events, the most important thing is to find the point of view. Superestar has found it thanks to the brilliant and crazy mind of its creator, Nacho Vigalondo.”
Vigalondo, for his part, has announced that they intend to be respectful of the woman on whom they will shine the spotlight: “In Superestar we have wanted to understand, humanize and respect a series of normally mistreated characters, and along the way we have made a fantasy dump , magic and madness that is unlike anything we have ever seen.”
In fact, the synopsis provided by Netflix is ??striking:
“At the turn of the century, a comet crossed the sky of Spain, dismantling the laws of fame and success, disintegrating the border between the popular and the underground. For a couple of years the covers and prime time hours were conquered by celebrities from another dimension. Creatures that until then seemed condemned to ridicule and contempt and that captured our attention without adapting to any normality. A magical story where there is room for esoteric conspiracies, eternal nights, quantum bricks, multicolored supervillains and an improbability made a star: Tamara.”
