The agreements that television actors sign usually include a clause that states that, if that production renews, filming takes priority over other projects. With Todos mienten, which features Irene Arcos, Natalia Verbeke, Juan Diego Botto, Miren Ibarguren, Ernesto Alterio or Eva Santolaria, this obligation was not there. When Movistar Plus renewed the series for a second season, the contracts had expired and some directly had not signed any such clause. So, when the creator Pau Freixas received the commission, he had an intense round of calls with actors and representatives. “It was essential that they wanted to do it and, as we talked to them, we saw that they were delighted to return: they had enjoyed the tone of the series and were in tune with this silliness”, explains Freixas on the occasion of the end of filming from the second season.
If the actors in demand agreed to return to this universe that mixes thriller and comedy, it was because of the atmosphere that had been created. “It’s obvious that the actors can’t say in an interview that they worked on a serial drama, but when something works, you can see it because it crosses the screen and the viewer notices the chemistry,” Santolaria defends. He describes the first experience as a “collective madness” in which they felt orphaned when filming ended: “We wanted more, we wanted to continue with these characters.” They had the opportunity: last weekend they recorded the last sequences in Sant Feliu de Codines after twelve weeks of filming.
This municipality of Vallès is, together with Blanes, la Garriga or the Sánchez-Casal club, one of the locations used to recreate Belmonte. It is a town with ideal houses in the middle of the forest, of wealthy people who want to live near the sea with their swimming pool, and with some secrets that they have to protect. In the first season, the facade of the families collapsed when it was revealed that a teacher (Irene Arcos) had slept with a student (Lucas Nabor), the son of her best friend (Natalia Verbeke), which triggered a murder. And the series said goodbye in January of last year with an open ending: the characters of Arcos and Verbeke shared a secret that is now in danger when the police find a body in a cabin.
“The series is reinvented, it extracts a plot that previously seemed impossible to explore”, advance Santolaria and Freixas, who are a couple in real life and conceived the new episodes together. They are inspired by middle age conflicts: “You play with the idea of ??being fed up with everything you have but at the same time not wanting to lose it”. They are multifaceted characters but very un-Machiavellian because they “don’t find brilliant, intelligent and thoughtful solutions” to their problems, but rather “do what they can”. And Santolaria introduces a variable, the way in which lies become a constant in adult life: “As we get older, you lie more because you don’t have any need to be honest in the school chat and because you go to to be afraid of losing or what they will say”. When these lies take hold, everything can only get worse.
The central issue it raises is the following: “What would you do for your children? How far would you be willing to go to protect them? And what does it mean to be a good father or a good mother?”. She is not clear on the definition of a good father because therein lies the dilemma: whether it is about protecting a child until the last consequences or forcing him to face the consequences of his actions. At the end of the year, the viewer will be able to get rid of doubts in Movistar.
