They are Yoli and Ana, friends who live their lives peacefully in a small town, until someone else, Macarena (Irene Arcos), sleeps with an underage boy, and after a suicide attempt, results in death. Everyone lies to hide who the killer is. Some because they believed he was their son. Because how far can a father or mother go to protect him? Eva Santolaria (Barcelona, 1975), ‘actor’Companions and ‘Quotes’, and Natalia Verbeke (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1975), ‘Node’ and ‘Ana Tramel. The ‘game’ that gives them life ‘Everbody lies’ (Movistar Plus+), these are obvious. And they talk to Prensa Ibérica’s El Periódicode Cataluña about their characters and their relationship with lies.
Eva, Yoli’s character, has a hard time lying. But he has something to hide, which leads to internal arguments.
Eva Santolaria (ES): From the first season you see that she messes up a bit, but she doesn’t do it out of gossip, but because she believes it’s the right thing to do. So, since you see what you see, the best thing to do is to go and tell it. But dilemmas arise: What if they were your children, what would you do? For the first time, he does something different from what he believes is right. It is the first piece to fall, and this movement causes the others to fall and the ball to grow larger. That’s what happens in life.
The recommendation this season is: Do whatever it takes to protect your children.
TR: What is the right thing to do? What does it mean to protect children? Because his natural instinct is to protect. However …
Natalia Verbeke (NV): If it is someone else’s child, objectivity begins about what will be good and what will be bad. But when it’s your turn, there’s a matter of animal protection where morality and ethics disappear, because what you want above all else is to care and protect.
TR: And when a child is taken from you, what comes out of you is animal instinct. You can’t react like that, but whatever you do, you can.
Natalia, Ana is in a lot of pain this season, she is helpless, lost. The only thing that saves him is that he will have a grandchild from his murdered son, Iván.
NV: What keeps him alive is the rebirth of his grandchild. It is your engine to continue living. And now that he has a chance to get it back with the creature that’s coming, he’ll do whatever it takes.
One of them partially involves Ana Obregón.
Both: This is exactly what we talked about.
Keeping an eye on that creature allows it to trust its mother, Macarena.
NV: A woman who does not dare to stand up to her husband in the first season. She makes all the decisions, but in this we see Ana, like a runaway horse, whom no one can control, who acts only with her instinct, instinct, who makes decisions whether they are wrong or not, but no one decides anymore. she that. She goes where her heart tells her she should go. She turns into an animal. And he must save Macarena for his grandson. A woman who is pregnant with your dead child cannot have an abortion.
It hurts to see him suffer like this.
TR: Sometimes there is such a huge demand that you don’t have time to be bad because you have other children…
NV: But it’s only been four days. He can’t rationally explain something that would take years and therapy to understand.
TR: It is important that pain, wrong decisions, and imperfection can arise. Because sometimes I feel like suffering is unpleasant, frustrating. And by featuring him, we see him suffer, make mistakes, say incoherent things. And that’s okay, because that’s how life is. We need to stop pretending like we’re not in pain, like we’re perfect.
“If a child commits suicide, the question a mother asks herself is how could I not see it?”, Natalia Verbeke, Ana, ‘Everybody Lies’
The boy attempted suicide before being killed. This makes the mother feel guilty.
NV: Yes, because if a son commits suicide, the question arises of how could I not have seen it, I wasn’t there, I could have prevented it, why didn’t I listen to him enough… And Iván had tried. This mother feels guilty for not being able to save him. And now you have the chance to do it.
When Eva visits the boy who tried to kill her last season, Yoli tells him about the pain she suffered during adolescence in that magnificent monologue.
TR: She will talk to Iván because she knows how he feels. These are two different explanations of what ‘non-violent’ abuse is. Iván does not feel abused. On the contrary, he is happy with Macarena. She would go with him. And young Yolanda was in awe of Macarena’s father. However, there is a very sensitive period in life, which is adolescence, and you need to be very careful during this period because things that an adult does not think are that serious can mean a lot to them. And these suicide attempts, this maximum pain from which you can only find a way out by ending your life, are part of what the series is trying to convey. It is not necessary to go for violent completed rape.
The narrative structure is quite complex, with time jumps and changes in the scenario. Is it complicated when recording?
NV: Yes, because you have to be very clear about where you are. But there is a lot of help from Pau (director Freixas), who is very clear about this. And the ‘scenario’ that provides continuity. My biggest challenge in the series was that Ana started too high. So I held the director’s hand.
The series is very intense.
NV: And it’s very funny. Such as life. Something happened to me at a funeral that made me laugh. Because that’s life; mixes drama, tragedy and laughter.
ES: When you were writing the script, things would happen that you knew wouldn’t happen in a thriller, otherwise the series would be over. There are twists and turns… But what if? It was all so ridiculous. And when you see players defending that… it’s great.
“Sometimes I feel that suffering is unpleasant, annoying”, Eva Santolaria, Yoli, ‘Everyone lies’
What kind of relationship do you have with lying?
NV: I think we lie all the time. As I get older, I like lying less and less because the outcome is always bad. What happens is that lies are necessary to avoid hurting others. What should I tell my partner if I go to a play and I don’t like it at all? I’m lying? Yes, but I’m positive because I understand the effort behind it. Sometimes there is no need to tell the truth if it will hurt or do nothing. What I don’t like is lies told to save your ass. Even those who say they pursue the truth first. Frankly, I don’t need this.
TR: I try not to lie and prefer to remain silent. I try to be pretty consistent with my life and be as honest as possible with what I do, what I say, and the relationships I have. But with the show I realized you’re not 100% because are you always telling yourself the truth? We are not 100% honest.
NV: We didn’t survive.
Clean. The older you get, the more you lie because you have more to lose. I lie more for my children. Do you always say what you think in parent chat? No, of course. And what happens if, at a gathering of friends where you’ve always been closer to one of the couples, that person tells you they’re having an affair? Can you go to the other person and tell them?
NV: Of course you keep your mouth shut. Maybe you don’t like the person your friend is with. There are things that don’t exist.
TR: So, do you raise your hand at work and say…? NO.
NV: To survive.
TR: You see this in the series: you instinctively lie. To survive. And sometimes we don’t realize it. If you examine the series from the beginning, you can see a fact….
NV: …everything would stop.
TR: But it forms a ball. One lie leads to another.