Graciela Guiñazú
08/21/2021 12:00
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Updated 08/21/2021 12:00
In the series
María Marta, the crime of country
, which is already filming, Laura Novoa is a vital, supportive, sportsman, family woman.
And
the physical resemblance is so accomplished that it makes the skin crawl
.
What the trailer reveals is shocking.
In that four minute video there is a lot of suspense, there is action, but
there is also screaming, and there is violence
.
The scene in the bathroom, for example, is guessed atrocious.
So much so that you can even
hear the click of the triggered gun
.
But be careful, because there is love here too.
This is a fictional series (that must be clarified) where
Jorge Marrale is the widower Carlos Carrascosa
, Mike Amigorena personifies the prosecutor Diego Molina Pico, Carlos Belloso is the brother, Horacio García Belsunce.
Nicolás Francella
composes the neighbor whose fictional name is Matías Centeno, and
Muriel Santa Ana
a Belu Fanesi, an anesthesiologist who, without having anything to do, gain or lose,
gets involved and commits to the investigation of the crime
.
Laura Novoa plays María Marta García Belsunce.
Produced by Warner Media for HBO,
this eight-part miniseries will air on HBO Max
, but will also be able to be seen on the HBO channel on pay television.
The series proposes
an eminently dramatic criminal tone and is inspired by real events: in the crime of María Marta García Belsunce
, which occurred in the country El Carmel, on October 27, 2002.
After the documentary, the fiction
But why turn this case into fiction, after 19 years, and with a documentary
(Carmel: who killed María Marta?)
Released last year?
That question has an answer from its director
.
Daniela Goggi:
We want to show how pain impacts a family that has to take care of a loss and, at the same time, be in the dock.
The interesting thing is that today there are new defendants in the case, but
there is still no culprit, there is no express truth
.
What there are are approximations to possible truths.
Goggi explains that "
fiction passes through each of the hypotheses that have been worked on over twenty years
. There is a judicial tragedy and there is a family tragedy and the judicial procedures are analyzed to think about how they affect that family path and in the links that surround it. The series proposes to take a tour of all the hypotheses of the case and even from the emotional point of view ".
From her role as director, she clarifies that "in a documentary
you always see the character María Marta as the dead woman and here you see a woman
whose
life
is taken from her, who is interrupted at 50 years of age. There will be an identification with that character Then there is the widower, who is done here by Marrale. His compositional work is impressive. "
"We go through that character and we think what a judicial process is in the first person. Because fiction has that: it allows us to see
what happens to those characters emotionally in the face of what happened,
" he analyzes before
Clarín
.
Laura Novoa and Jorge Marrale join the inevitable Zoom modality, so fashionable in this pandemic era, to share their experiences.
Marrale:
I have the memory of what happened in that troubled time by communication, by the way one found out.
But entering the history of fiction, playing these characters, was something very different.
Especially since the matrix is in the script, and in that point of view with what one thought was obvious in some way.
Mike Amigorena puts himself in the shoes of prosecutor Molina Pico.
And he adds that "I get rid of some things based on fiction, reality marked me what the media in some way told, what family members could tell, but always recorded by a camera that belonged to the media, or the reading in the newspapers of that time. But fiction allowed me to know something else and instructed me to follow the character and the story. "
Novoa:
Something very similar happened to me.
I think that, as a spectator, I had another vision.
Perhaps the one that the media made me believe, and
this fiction for me opens the game to being able to question and ask more questions about the case
.
It also calls into question the judicial system and the media.
The fact of understanding Argentina and also this woman, because this has been a human drama in that family.
Novoa shares that "I try then to be able to get into that forest,
trying at the same time to be very respectful, because he is a person who is no longer there
. Also, in some way, to give a little light with our contribution, although the fiction does not pretend give conclusions, but maybe be able to ask ourselves more questions about what happened. "
-It is very impressive to see the trailer, because as journalists we have experienced the crime investigation closely. María Marta was a public and supportive person. Laura, did you see any footage of her to take on this role?
Novoa:
Yes, I asked to see videos and Daniela was very supportive, because
I am a slightly obsessive actress and my way of working is to collect a lot of information
.
I have a blackboard and, if I open a diary and something reminds me of the fact, I cut it out and paste it, and I almost magically build my character.
"I think
the documentary helped us because it put a lot on the table
. And also to know his solidarity and his way of working. He was a special person and that is why I tried to be very respectful and very studious. The fact of showing my character in life it was the most fascinating and, at the same time, complex. Being able to compose what was not seen, that is fantasized, that hypothesis, was very interesting as an actress, "she confesses.
-Jorge, your role seeks to put yourself in the shoes of the man who lives the tragedy of the death of his wife and the entire judicial process in the first person. Did you talk to Carrascosa?
Marrale:
He appears as a person of few words, put inward and
with a construction of himself more of the means than of himself
.
Added to that is the resolution of justice and some errors of that justice.
I tried to look at this story from the point of view of a man who, having had a good time, as a financier, has the fantasy of stopping work and enjoying life.
Jorge Marrale says that "I did not speak with Carlos Carrascosa yet, because it seemed to me that the construction had to be personal, with the colleagues and with the direction.
For me the Bible is the script and the script is the one I submit to,
because motivation it is creating in situ, and I believe that this is happening. I think that the historical narrative that fiction has is like a thriller ".
Novoa:
Yes, I would add that it
is a thriller with an unsolved murder
.
So maybe it hits us Argentines because it happened here, but it exceeds us.
I feel that there is really something that makes it more striking for Argentines because we know that it is based on real events, even though it is a fiction, but
it seems to me that it exceeds the local because it is a death without resolution
.
A wide gallery of characters
Carlos Belloso, Mike Amigorena, Muriel Santa Ana and Nicolás Francella have four distinct roles,
only Muriel's is totally fictional
.
And, if it is not, it is not made explicit, as in the other cases.
Francella's character takes a fictitious name: Matías Centeno.
-Nicolás, from what we see, all the hypotheses will be discussed here, but there is one that is very strong and is the one that points you out as the culprit. Did you have contact with what was published at that time?
Francella:
My character is called Matías Centeno, he is a neighbor within the country.
I
had no contact with the person and there is little information about him
.
But I was able to observe everything that was filmed from the security cameras.
I saw the trial and even some videos on the internet.
I had a search process with people from the country, who knew him and that way I was able to build Centeno.
-Carlos, you play his brother, who is also a journalist and had the responsibility of telling a story, until the appearance and disappearance of the "pituto" revealed the details that were later confirmed by the autopsy ... Did you have any contact with Horacio?
Belloso:
My character was obviously the best known, the journalist.
I was watching the cable show.
I have also seen the program with María Marta, because sometimes they did it together.
And obviously as I got into character I started to see the family dynamics.
I was interested in getting more into that merged family
.
"Daniela is not very imposing, but asks us, has doubts and expresses them. And we, by getting into each scene, also managed to participate in that tension of emotions and in that tension of actions that are going to be told. I preferred not to consult it. I am governed a lot by the script and not by those causes ", explains the actor.
Daniela Goggi in a scene with Marrale, who plays Carrascosa.
-Mike, in your role as the prosecutor, who had a strong media exposure, how did you approach this character?
Amigorena:
I'm going to start by repeating Belloso's words.
It is very rare to work with a person as passionate and as intelligent as Daniela
(Guggi) who paves the way for us in such a way, because
she has everything in her head and
she brings
out the best in each of us
.
It is very emotional how she captures it, you just have to follow her.
And he says that "for the composition I relied on journalistic material. I watched many videos, I worked copying their behaviors with many details, which is what I like the most. In itself,
the project is
already
wrapped in a halo that also helps the characters feed off of that mystery
. This is very compelling for me and I approached it through observing behaviors, basically. "
-Muriel, did you connect with the case once you found out about this role? How did it impact you?
Santa Ana:
My character is called Belu Fanesi and she
is a woman who feels challenged by the case many years after the date of the crime
.
She is a medical anesthesiologist and is like many of us: she
bought the media hypothesis, the hegemonic hypothesis that the family had covered up Carrascosa's guilt
.
Which was like the line a bit imposed by many means.
And by getting into the DNA of his character, he risks that "at some point he begins to hear other things about the family, in the interviews that are available on YouTube. And from there there
is something that happens to him, that he has worked hard with Daniela
. But that I would rather not reveal, because it is something that is part of those creative secrets that actors and actresses sometimes have. "
And he adds: "We worked on that starting point of why she, being an absolutely alien person, who does not gain anything by investigating, but rather loses many things along the way,
leaves her whole life aside to create a web page, a blog about the case,
where all the available information is dumped. There you can see the complete file, it is a titanic job what this woman has done ".
Produced by Warner Media Latin America and
carried out in conjunction with Polka,
María Marta: Country Crime
will be premiered
next year on HBO Max
and promises to continue to arouse controversy around a police case that shocked public opinion and that, almost twenty years after it happened, continues without being able to resolve.
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