The actor co-stars with Aura Garrido in the fiction ‘A Private Matter’, available on Prime Video
Using proper Castilian Spanish with a French twist, actor Jean Reno (Casablanca, Morocco, aged 74) makes his debut in Spanish fiction with ‘A Private Matter’, the new series now available in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video, produced in collaboration with Bambú Producciones, in which he takes on the role of a kind butler who will accompany the young Marina (played by the actress Aura Garrido) on his way to become a police officer at a time, the Franco regime, where the woman was assigned working at home. “He is a man who is part of the family. The basis is that he protects Marina because he considers her his daughter,” the actor describes about his character, the helpful and cunning Héctor.
Set in Galicia in 1948, the action begins with a crime that reveals the existence of a serial killer who has been stalking the city for months. Marina, from a police family, goes in search of the man who is terrorizing her neighbors. She is a high-class young woman who is not satisfied with the luxurious life she is destined for. “It’s very interesting because in the year of the series, women couldn’t be police officers. He knows that Marina’s passion is to explore and he gets behind her out of love because she is like a daughter to Héctor and he comes to see himself as an adventurer,” says Reno.
Because the character Reno plays in the new Prime Video bet is a discreet and generous man, sometimes stubborn, but whose sensitivity and daring always put him on the main point of the investigation. Together with Marina, she will fight against all obstacles to track down the serial killer, including the gender bias of the time or the resistance of the new Commissioner to make it easy for you. The insistence of Marina’s mother, played by veteran Ángela Molina, to let her daughter marry a full-fledged man will also be mixed. But to everyone’s surprise, the detective couple works. The cast of this eight-part production is completed by Alex García (‘Times of war’, ‘Anti-riot’), Gorka Otxoa (‘Velvet’), Tito Valverde (‘Matadero’), Irene Montalá (‘El barco’ ), Pablo Molinero (‘La peste’) and Andrés Velencoso (‘Velvet Collection’, ‘Edha’), among others.
Accustomed to seeing a Reno with characters more bitter than sweet in his films, in ‘A Private Affair’ the actor portrays a charismatic butler whose peculiar innocence is mingled with an interesting comedic aspect. In the final season of “Who Killed Sara”?, a Mexican Netflix fiction, he was a psychiatrist who killed half the city. However, Reno defends that he never identifies with any of the roles he has been given in his extensive professional career. “I’ve made more than a hundred films and you can’t have a hundred personalities. The keyword of my profession is interpreting. Having a story and interpreting it along with the rest of the team, technicians and other actors and actresses,” he explains. .
With ‘A Private Business’ he also makes his debut in a fiction filmed in Spain and with which he knows a part of the country that he did not know. «I discovered Galicia. That was charming and extraordinary. We continued filming for at least three months and time passed in a formidable way, as if it had taken a week. Vigo is a surprising city and the food is very good,” said Reno, who is of Spanish descent, as his parents came from the province of Cádiz and went into exile in North Africa where he was born. For this reason, Reno reveals that language has not been an issue in this project. «I started with Spanish and little by little. I arrived from the United States this morning, so I still have a day or two to learn the Spanish language more easily. In any case, he is a character who comes from France, so he may have trouble with Spanish,” he emphasizes.
Source: La Verdad
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