Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo On Making Buzzy Spanish Drama ‘La Mesias’: “We Were Confident In The Beginning, Then We Got Really Scared”
deadline.comHaving spent three years making buzzy Spanish series La Mesías, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo have admitted to a crisis of confidence before the show was released.
The pair are huge stars in Spain and recognized at home and increasingly abroad. People are politely waiting for selfies when Deadline spoke to them at Series Mania, where they scooped the Best Directing accolade for the latest project, which was an original for Spanish streamer Movistar Plus+. “When we made the show, we were like, ‘maybe nobody’s watching this.’ We were confident in the beginning, then got really scared,” Calvo said. “We were like, ‘is this too hard, is it too painful for the audience?’” They needn’t have worried.
Movistar does not break out viewing data, but the series created a huge stir in Spain, with buzz building as the episodes dropped in weekly instalments.
La Mesías – The Messiah in English – bowed at the San Sebastian Film Festival and was then the first Spanish drama to be at Sundance.
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