Commander Fort: the creators tell behind the scenes of the Star+ docuseries

Ricardo Fort was a character that everyone thought they knew, somehow.

Those five years of media maelstrom aroused love and hatred in those who saw him

.

But they were just the tip of the iceberg of

.

Commander Fort

, the documentary series that Star+ premieres this Wednesday,

:

?

"

. It has no gender, it has no identification with a format.

, it tries to be a story, it has different directors, different writers.

, explains

, creator, producer and director of the docuseries.

The docuseries reveals unimaginable facets of Fort.

The

of

mix

, and add some fiction through impersonators of the protagonist, his children,

, and

.

"Fiction was key to being able to live as he lived, a little in reality and a little in fiction," adds Alvarez Casado.

"There was nothing done about Ricardo

," says Eddie Fitte, journalist and writer in charge of the docuseries' investigative journalism.

"

, and a guy who had decided, during the last five years of his life, to record himself 24 hours a day, seven days a week," he justifies.

“And he had put that on YouTube, he had created a channel where he hosted everything that he generated 24 hours a day;

He had had his own television show and

.

And so and everything seemed like a story told.

There was a strange thorn: this

.

And there was no answer."

-Why?

The series covers the different stages of Ricardo, with their respective changes of look.

-Fitte:

Obviously because there was something we didn't know.

There was something that Ricardo transmitted with his attitudes, with his feelings, with his actions.

It was starting to raise stone by stone to see what generated that sympathy and try to understand

.

-Married:

What I

.

Because Ricardo was someone he hid as much as he showed.

We strive to try to understand who Ricardo Fort really was.

Why he was so popular, but at the same time what he felt.

There we put all our narrative and visual resources to

that everyone can enjoy.

Fort and the hero's path

Their love affairs, some unknown until now, occupy a good part of the material.

Each of the

addresses a facet of his story: it begins with his most media-ready side, followed by his unknown love record, then the bond with his children and his family;

and ends with his senior year and his surprise death.

“It was key to find everything he had searched for in that path of the hero that he did.

Because in the series itself you see him in his

.

And, as we move forward, it's like peeling back the layers and finding the whole story of family conflicts,

.

It seemed to us that it was very important to understand what he had gone through to become who he was.

That was the motivation ”, explains Casado.

-And do you think the series answers the foundational question?

-Married:

I think so.

You start seeing Ricardo in one state and you end up in another.

I think we managed to capture the sensitivity that he had.

And why people feel reflected in him: because

.

The series shows that behind that character there was someone who felt, suffered and who worked hard to be who he was.

"It seems common to us now, but

, which for us is highly valued. Today it seems something within the reach of any adolescent and at that time it did not exist. So -explains Casado- we focused on valuing everything that he He did. We didn't stay in the media part, in the quilombos, but we gave a lot of relevance to what he did."

-Fitte:

I don't know if we give an answer to what Ricardo was like or why Ricardo did what he did, because ultimately he will know.

But I think that

.

That enriches the debate.

-Married:

Sure, you may or may not be a millionaire, you may or may not have gone to Miami, but everyone needs to be recognized, loved.

I think Ricardo's greatest work is himself.

The way he lived, how he communicated, the place he wanted to occupy, to be someone different.

And who doesn't want to be that?

The appearance of the unpublished intimate diary

From the acquisition of the rights to tell the story, Alvarez Casado and Fitte say that

, in addition to hundreds of suitcases never checked, full of objects that Fort bought in his trips to Miami and the world.

In one of those suitcases, they

that, after hard reconstruction work, rounded off the docuseries.

“It was crazy.

.

Suitcases full of what you can imagine.

: credit card statements, document letters, lawsuits, emails (because he printed everything), scripts of things he had wanted to publish, drafts of books, passages, family photos," Fitte shares.

"And there these torn pages appear mixed between scripts and demands, a mess of 200 interspersed pages and chronologically disordered that they repaired on issues in which Ricardo did not even make jokes on television," he completes.

-Married:

When we found that manuscript, I felt it was him saying

.

Because it was his own voice telling his story.

.

And when we found all the secrets of his youth, his lesser-known stage,

of him, we had to change all the scripts, all the structures and go back backwards.

"Because the process of creating this series was alive, it was constantly mutating. And being able to build Ricardo's story in his own words was something surreal, something that perhaps programmed him," he suggests.

-What appreciation or position did you have about Ricardo Fort and how much did he change after making the series?

What do you hope he happens to the public when he sees it?

-Fitte

: I hope they follow the same path that Pato, I and all of us who did the series did.

The (path) from not understanding it to trying to understand it:

behind façades that were going arming, why personal fears.

"I think the goal we set ourselves was to show all the little sticks that he stepped on, with which he tripped and got up. And there I think it is difficult not to understand. I come to understand him:

, assumes Fitte.

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-Married:

I think the answer is inevitably in the series.

You start in one emotional state and end up in another.

The most important achievement was going through Ricardo's dark side, without avoiding it, to tell how this person came to be.

And it's inevitable not to get excited and

did when you started seeing it.

The song of the heirs

Episode three of

has Marta and Felipe as protagonists.

Ricardo's children remember his father and the -little- bond they had with him.

original video clip in which Ricardo's heirs actively participated.

The two sons of Ricardo Fort participate in the docuseries about their father.

"We went to hell... but that was the chaos in which Ricardo lived," explains Casado.

“

.

We proposed to Marta to promote her interests, her singing and dancing.

, something that she handles every day", comments the director.

"I think that all the experience that is lived in that episode would have liked to have happened to Ricardo: visual effects, pop art and constant contradictions," he synthesizes.

-Fitte:

There is something there that has a lot to do with the Fort family...

.

You can see it in Carlos Sr., who in his free time liked music a lot;

Marta with the Columbus plan, the lyrical singer and her three children, jazz fans.

And Ricardo who says:

.

"The interesting thing about his offspring is that you have

, investment, finance and gaming; and

. That white and that black are there all the time that all the Forts have. And in the chapter -go ahead Fitte- it is possible to see well those differences that exist between the heirs".

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