Actor Luis Tosar plays Pepe Durá. The captain of the fishing boat who saved the lives of 51 immigrants in the international waters of the Mediterranean. sea law, is a three-episode miniseries whose first two episodes will be broadcast on Valencian public television on Monday, January 15 at 22:00. The ending episode is broadcast at the same time the next day.
The hero of movies like Cell 211, All names of Allah, on the edges anyone Who kills with iron visited Alicante À To promote Punt’s new miniseries, co-produced with RTVE. It’s a story the Galician actor remembers “from the moment it happened.” It was then He already saw that “there was a great narrative grain.”
Regarding filming, Tosar explains that it was easier than they initially thought: “We thought it would be too complicated to shoot at sea, on such a small boat, with so many people involved. And interestingly enough, I don’t know if he was relatively relaxed because of his desire for everything to go well.” 18 days of footage were captured, reflecting the nine days the rescued people had to stay on the boat. with the crew of the fishing boat. Despite this, he assures that it is not a claustrophobic experience.
The cast, whose shooting took place in Alicante, Santa Pola and the City of Light, was visited by Pepe Durá, the captain of the fishing boat Francisco and Catalina, and his wife Pepi. “We were very lucky to have Pepi and Pepe, who, even after many years, conveyed to us with great generosity and first-hand the whole experience of that moment,” the actor said. Moreover, he says, with a bit of humor, that Pepe, “the real hero of this story”, conveys his experiences “as if nothing had happened, even though what he did was out of anyone’s control.” In this sense, Luis Tosar thinks, “People have become accustomed to thinking that these actions are extraordinary things when they should be ordinary.”
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The message is something that remains constant throughout the miniseries and one that the actors want to embrace. Luis Tosar understands that this project will enable people to “put emotion and heart into something they are used to statistics and numbers.” “Unfortunately, we see in the news every day that a number of people lost their lives in the Mediterranean or at some points, arriving at a miraculous port in very bad conditions.”
In this way he conveys a message of awareness: “This whole thing is an immigration phenomenon that will get worse as the years go by, because things are getting harder and harder in the countries of origin, and we have to assume that we are the receiving country.” “. With this strength, he predicts that Spain “must be at the forefront of this struggle” due to its geographical location. Thus, the three episodes that make up the miniseries sea law It allows us to show one of the most striking cases related to the migration crisis and emphasizes the need for policies focusing on these events.