HE filmmaker, writer, journalist, screenwriter and actor David Trueba (Madrid, 1969) won Goya for best direction and screenplay. ‘It’s easy to live with your eyes closed’ and is currently producing a biography about Eugenio ‘Saben aquell que diu…’ and a documentary about Felipe González. already allied with the producer and journalist Jordi Ferrons, The director of the production company Lavinia Audiovisual will be making the documentary series ‘La sagrada familia’ about the Pujol clan. HBO Max. The duo repeats the experience for the same platform, but now replaces the heroes: theirs is the series. ‘Sofia and Real Life’ documentaryIt opens on Friday the 23rd.
Documentary series about the Pujol clan, Queen Sofía, Felipe González… Do you feel comfortable with this genre, David?
David Trueba (DT): Yes. I also believe that at a time when information is biased, it should be placed in the corresponding context for each, and each draw the conclusions he or she desires. It wasn’t intentional, but they touched my little sensitive fibers as a journalist and a person who believes in his country and believes that you need to write a story that’s a bit more ambitious than one based on the party’s ideology. you vote
Jordi, you like this project because of your journalist profile
Jordi Ferrerons (JF): Absolutely. Telling stories through characters is the dream of those of us who love to tell stories. If you have heroes like Pujol and her family, Sofia and her family, this is great material. They are fascinating characters in themselves and take you deep into history to understand how we got to where we are and how the society we live in was built.
They describe everything that surrounds the Royal Family but always attribute it to Sofia.
DT: We never wanted to prioritize it. He voluntarily played that secondary, background role, an almost immovable sphinx, and we had to do the opposite to put him at the center of critical, conflicting or successful moments. How to position him and see inside him as the main character. This was one of the greatest originalities of the project. And interestingly, some facts emerge from this exercise that are there that we don’t realize.
JF: We discovered that you are not a passive person. His public attitude was to be in the background, but his role often went much further. There are moments when Sofia is a great support and a great compass for Juan Carlos. The Royal Family also ensured the continuity of this dynasty. Without him, the story could have been written very differently.
Because of this sought-after resume, I guess it will be difficult to obtain documents.
DT : Yes, closer testimonies based solely on rumors or speculation have been difficult to come by. And since the Royal House has a rule of not publicly denying anything or taking legal action or lawsuits against the media and journalists, anything goes. Distinguishing the rumor mill from the fact and the urban legend from the truth was complicated. One of the forms of misinformation is disapproval of things, as they themselves promote it. And you had to not only access that environment, but also discover if there were any outages. Because they’ve always been told it’s a court-less monarchy, and they’re somewhat right. He was very clear that the lineage would continue. Not as much as Bourbon, that of Greece. There is almost a dynastic change in her figure, and we have unwittingly joined her. The Bourbons are part of the most eccentric, crazy, friendly, fun, uninhibited family, even extreme, but Sofia has made a crucial script change against King Felipe VI, who has a completely different personality.
JF: It was posed in public, not stolen. And there were even stolen ones that he provoked because it was convenient for him. We said this. We have sought to thoroughly analyze images and sequences well known to the general public to understand the context and why Queen Sofia and those around her are moving. There are four or five moments in his public performance and his political performance that help to get a little closer to the character.
Like the fuchsia dress she wore to mourn Franco at her coronation. A complete statement of intent.
JF: That’s one of the points. Another is his public appearance in complex contexts on the occasion of King Juan Carlos’s admission to the hospital. Another is the event at Palma Cathedral and protocol acts such as the Cathedral of Santiago, XVI century, which, if you examine it carefully, help to explain many things. Welcome to Benedict.
They also touch on a major controversy: the queen’s statements in Pilar Urbano’s book.
DT: One element that continues to generate controversy: knowing how much Pilar Urbano’s own ideology is embedded in the portrait of the queen’s ideas. Maybe the truth is that two people’s agendas collide at a certain moment and someone is over-interpreting your ideas because they know for sure. But there must be a mutual interest between propagating a theory and polemicizing with a government, which is arguably the greatest danger of a monarchy. When they land in the political arena, into a fight, it’s always a problem, and if it’s done it should be because they have the power to change that and distort the ballot box design. And the monarchy knows she can get out of the ballot box symbolically, but it’s not okay to wrestle with them because when she does, it’s a very bad outcome.
They don’t want to be fooled by the rumor mill so they don’t get wet about whether he has a girlfriend in London.
JF: We couldn’t find a reliable source to reliably tell us about this and other endpoints. We also wanted to avoid sensational, very striking points. We believe Sofia’s life is already striking enough to be handled with care. If this fact led us to something relevant, namely that Queen Sofía’s ultimate extramarital affair would endanger the monarchy, we would pursue this thread. But we couldn’t find it. I’m not saying no, but we couldn’t find it.
DT: In the process of documenting the Pujols, we’ve also had people approaching us with some criminal or personal element, but we needed evidence to prove this. And sometimes you have to give up.
They shined a light on a character in the shadow. But that could be lost if kept out of public view.
DT: Yes, oddly enough, the history of monarchies often has shadow components on top of each other. “Juan Carlos plays the role of the most dangerous character for the Spanish monarchy and the monarchy must protect itself from it. This happened to his mother, Alfonso XII, who did not want to bring him from France because they had just restored the Bourbon. Period in Spain and Isabel’s They advised him not to appear in Spain because it brought bad feelings. It’s interesting that the same thing happens 100 years later. I even think it bothers them in a certain way and the less presence they are, the calmer they are.
JF: There is an interviewer who said that Sofia’s presence reminded us of Juan Carlos’ absence. At the end of the series, we aim to explain what Queen Sofia’s public role is at the moment, summing it up a bit. Yes, it appears at certain times, but if it does, we remember where we came from.