New content teen in Spanish arrives this Friday on Netflix after the worldwide success of Elite. On this occasion, the platform is committed to the film adaptation of one of those bestsellers that were born as an Internet phenomenon, sell more than 13,000 copies backed by a major publisher and end up becoming an audiovisual saga. Although, to give a few names, through my window has more than despues de what of Twilight and less of Cassandra Clare than of EL James. But we have met with its protagonists at the VP Plaza España Design so that they can tell us better themselves what this blockbuster brings.
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As her character would probably do, Clara Galle always answers first and in detail. She transmits strength and courage but, also, more tenderness and self-confidence than Raquel. On the other hand, Julio Peña seems less like the new Mario Casas in real life and more introverted and approachable. You may have seen her in the video clip Red high heels by Sebastián Yatra and stop counting. He also stars in music video: berlinby Aitana but it already comes with some tables of series on Disney, Spanish Television and musicals like Mama Mia!
However, for both of them, the film by Marçal Forés that adapts Ariana Godoy’s books to the screen is their first big role. In it, as the official synopsis advances without spoilers: Raquel leads half a life crazy about Ares, her attractive neighbor. She watches him secretly, but has never talked to him. Will he be able to get him to fall in love with her? So yeah, there’s stalking, there’s romance, and a lot of hormones. This is what the protagonists told us about her.
The movie of through my window opens with a large fandom prior to the books. How are you dealing with instant fame?
Clara Galle: I think we’re trying to maintain a balance between freaking out and relaxing, because if you go too far on one side badly and if you go too far on the other, you won’t enjoy it. But we are very happy and grateful because, in addition, we trust the film a lot. We made it with a lot of love and, when things are done like this, they turn out well.
Julio Peña: That’s what Clara says, we shouldn’t be too serious either because you don’t enjoy it and we are really experiencing something super nice and very special. Receiving this warmth from so many people around the world is brutal. So we are enjoying it a lot but with calm and the peace that we provide among our teammates and the team.
The relationship between Raquel and Ares could be considered toxic. You who, as actors, have had to work from her ideas to turn it into something visible, how do you understand it?
Clara: It’s something we’ve talked about a lot among us. It is true that Raquel and Ares start from idealization. She idealizes him, and it’s not that she thinks she’s the best human being on earth, it’s that she directly says that he’s a Greek god. But when they meet this is dismantled…
Julio: On his part, the relationship begins to be toxic because of how he has been educated. That makes him directly hate Raquel for almost the entire movie. However, she disarms him and, from there, a relationship begins to be built from another side that for me is not toxic and that is what is cool.
“Raquel is willing to fight a lot for what she loves, but she knows that she goes first”
Clara, despite the fact that Raquel is the narrator, we barely get to know anything about her beyond her sex-affective rackets. How is she?
Clara: She is a very self-confident girl but I think she is not aware and is in that process of self-knowledge, of trying and discovering that, when she has to decide between another person and herself, she always does everything for herself. She is a girl who is willing to fight a lot for what she loves, but she knows that she goes first and I think that she is the key to Raquel. Although she is also very generous and passionate about life: she loves to feel, love, friendship and enjoys herself. And she has a dream, which is to be a writer. That is the most vulnerable point of her.
Now the film will become a benchmark for the sentimental education of many adolescents, but which one(s) have been your own?
Clara: I have grown up with Three meters over the sky and I’m in love with the relationship in that movie but I’m also aware that it’s an idealization of love. For me, Raquel and Ares show that this idealization is false. There are things that both do wrong but it is not intended to make them believe that their relationship is wonderful despite this. It has a reflection that relationships are complicated and not everything is beautiful and nothing happens.
Julio: I, in terms of references, High School Musical, when Troy and Gabriela were… (laughs)
“We have grown with precious but very false references”
Clara: It’s true, we’ve grown up with very false references. They are beautiful but very fake. I am in love with those stories and I want to live there but it is not real.
Julio: Yes, it’s true. through my window to real life (laughs).
quarry of actors
Teen series and movies are a great pool of debuting actors and actresses who later become very famous. Esther Expósito, Blanca Suárez or Úrsula Corberó, are some names that attest to this. And in ATDMV, Julio and Clara are not alone: Raquel has Yoshi, the woman who is her friend and archetype of the good guy who opposes Ares’ badass and among whom the young woman has to choose. A classic of the genre.
In turn, Ares has his brothers, Artemis and Apolo, the three heirs of a successful corporation in a plot with brushstrokes (saving distances) of Succession, that you had not seen yourself coming. But there is also impossible love and a kind of Spanish Maddy Perez with Daniela, whose actress her colleagues describe during the talk as a “tremendous goddess”. We wanted to ask all of them how they think they are alike and how they are diametrically opposed to their characters to get to know them a little.
Guillermo Lasheras (Yoshi): In common with Yoshi, I think I have the way of trying to create a good atmosphere wherever I go, that people feel comfortable, that there is a good vibe and add a touch of humor. On the other hand, the most opposite is introversion and also, obviously, the way he dresses and shows himself to the public, which for me has been the most shocking.
Hugo Arbues (Apollo): The closest thing between Apolo and me is that we are living the same stage of our lives, discovering the things of love… And it is that age accompanies a lot in my case. Afterwards, I think that the least thing we have in common is how little savvy the poor guy is. I am more awake and mature.
Eric Masip as Artemis My character, in the end, what happens is that he has a life and a profession very different from mine. If I had branched out into business and depending on the situations I was in, I might have been as square as he was, but I’m not. So, the only thing I think I have in common with Artemis is the good heart that he really has underneath all that baggage and facade.
Emilia Lazo (Claudia): In my case, Claudia comes from very strong life circumstances, from which I am light years away, but I think we resemble each other in that she is a very strong woman, very determined, with a lot of character and who has no problem saying what she thinks. and what you feel. I see myself quite reflected there. Then, what differentiates me the most is that I see her as very cautious and I jump much faster. I’m more nervous and that’s also what I liked about interpreting her with that much calmer and more observant energy.
Natalia Azahara (Daniela): I think that, like Daniela, I am a good friend (she turns looking for the look of her companions, who approve the affirmation). I think I’m always there listening and caring. The difference between her and her is that she is a very free woman and I feel that it would be wonderful, at some point, to be able to feel that freedom. I know that getting her is a process but she already has it at 17, that’s very crazy.
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