He is no longer a child. Not a victim of the atrocities and excesses of his father, Luisito Rey. She is between 20 and 35. She drinks enormous amounts of Jack Daniel’s on the rocks, a daughter who has been neglected for most of her childhood, a family broken by the black shadow of her mother’s murder, orphaned brothers who take the prize paying his mother. stardom. And what was seen: a myth that cannot be stopped in those years, an immortal symbol for millions of fans on the American continent. Luis Miguel is currently becoming an ambitious benchmark like few others, whose character transcends his music. In this new installment of the series about the Mexican singer’s life, Netflix addresses the challenge of showing the hardest and darkest face of the king of Latin music. The return of the deadly Luis Miguel.
The platform will premiere this Sunday in the second season of one of the most successful series in Spanish. The promise to narrate the intimate life of one of the most hermetic characters in the music world was enticing enough in 2018 that millions of viewers around the world were tied to the screens every Sunday for months. Compete with a soccer world cup and presidential election in Mexico. During meals they talked about Luis Miguel.
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The media bait from which the role had lived low For decades, Latin American was served on a silver platter. A series with American production, led by Luis Miguel himself, ready to tell his intimate story for the first time. And after a first season marked by Mexico’s favorite villain Luis Rey (his father), played by Spanish actor Óscar Jaenada, comes the stage of the career of the so-called El Sol de México, about which there was much speculation, but little whether almost nothing. Luis Miguel tells you about it and takes him to your house.
The leader of the screenwriting team, the writer Daniel Krauze, EL PAÍS recognizes that the most important point for the entire production team and the actors – especially that of Luis Miguel, Diego Boneta – was to be as faithful as possible to the reality of the artist. . “We take seriously that we make a series about the life of someone who is alive and we have to make an honest portrait. We know it causes a lot of morbidity because it has been very hermetic, because people know nothing about these points in their life or they only know half of them. That’s why it took us so long, we didn’t want to do anything sensational, ”explains Krauze.
How do you know when what appears on the screen was like in your life? It is the question many viewers ask themselves in every chapter. Intent to see Luis Miguel: The series goes far beyond the entertainment of fiction. “There is something we should not lose sight of. Luis Miguel is Luis Miguel. He doesn’t come to my house to drink coffee and tell me about his life. That does not mean that there is no channel with him. There are a lot of filters from many people on the team who know him, especially Miguel Alemán Magnani [nieto del expresidente de México], very close to the production that gave us data, important moments that had to be mentioned, beyond the dramatization of the story, ”explains the screenwriter. And he warns, “The core moments of the series are based on real events.”
The second season plays with two timelines, one from 1992 and another with a more mature Luis Miguel, 35 years old, in 2005. And from the first chapters, the uncontrolled success of the 1990s tours is explained to the beginning. of deterioration: the moment when the singer starts to have hearing problems. This point was one of the most controversial in recent years, leaving concerts and wearing the singer.
For Krauze, the most revealing of this second season is the way Luis Miguel had to juggle at the time to live with the golden phase of his career and one of the worst periods of his family life. The disappearance of her mother and the death of her father, the despair of knowing what happened to her, who killed her and where her body is, collide head-on with the Luis Miguel of uncontrolled parties in Acapulco, on yachts with dozens models and raised more than $ 90 million on a tour of Latin America. “The most interesting thing about this season is how he balanced all of that, being a superstar and trying to keep the family core intact. The evolution of him as a human. And we see two almost different characters, the one from the 1990s and the one from 35, ”adds the writer.
The screenwriter emphasizes that there is an extensive study of his life from the direction, production and actors participating in the series. Boneta has recreated the character in such a way since season one that it’s hard to imagine playing anyone else. And Krauze acknowledges that everyone knows their life so well that some of the protagonist’s scenes, gestures or comments are put together ‘almost instinctively’.
‘I already felt like I knew him. I started to understand the motivations, what I would do and what I wouldn’t do. Just like the rest of the team, ”adds the writer. “I feel more empathy with him. Before I started the series I really liked his music, but there were things of such secrecy that you doubted it. But when you understand more of his life, after you research and dramatize it, you understand the motivations why he got that way, gruff. Of the 50 interviews that were made of him at the time, there is not a single musical question, or maybe even one, they are all about gossip, about his loved ones, about his personal life, ”Krauze adds.
Luis Miguel tells viewers for the second time the stories that have been speculated for decades, unauthorized biographies, millions of magazines and minutes about television programs have been sold. What happened to his mother, his great loves, his addictions, his fears and his family mistakes are the big themes that the new episode will deal with again. “The brighter the sun, the darker the shadows,” Netflix promises.
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