Miguel Bosé, the new star of Telecinco

Despite being one of the most successful Spanish artists of all time, Miguel Bosé is, in many ways, a mystery.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
05 November 2023 Sunday 15:32
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Miguel Bosé, the new star of Telecinco

Despite being one of the most successful Spanish artists of all time, Miguel Bosé is, in many ways, a mystery. His origins within his famous family and the beginning of his brilliant career, the complicated relationship with his parents, the ups and downs of his love life, his brightest and darkest moments constitute the plot axis of Bosé, the biopic that Telecinco opens this Monday openly.

The network will broadcast a programming event under the title La noche de Miguel Bosé, which is presented by Joaquín Prat and includes an interview with the artist and the presence on set of Paola Dominguín, Bibiana Fernández, Andrea Bronston and Rosa Villacastín.

The series arose from the biographical book of the artist, who assured, during the presentation of the series to the media, that if Macarena Rey (Shine Iberia) had not been in the production and had had scriptwriters such as Boris Izaguirre, Ángeles González Sinde and Isabel Vázquez, would not have come out ahead.

“With Macarena, beyond friendship, we have a lot of complicity; “We have been through very beautiful and very ugly things together.” For Bosé, she and her team were a guarantee of seriousness and commitment and “that shields you because it is very difficult to fall into absurdity and sensationalism when the force of things is told in a natural way, that does not hurt, does not lie.” . Passages from her life that neither her friends nor her family have questioned her telling, “that doesn't happen in my family and neither does it with my friends.”

“Everything that is there is true,” he stressed, the story, the characters, but remember that it is a fiction, “in which it is about embellishing the beautiful more and where the hardest things are more intense”; and then emphasize that with the passage of time “you realize that things that seemed uncountable or sacred can be counted” and have meant “a liberation” for him.

The actor José Pastor plays a young Miguel Bosé, and Iván Sánchez the mature man, for whom the singer only has words of praise. “They sent me a recording of José singing and I didn't realize that he wasn't me. He has embroidered it. He has done brutal acting and singing work.” And about Iván Sánchez he said that "he is a great actor, we know each other and he has an impression on me, he has resolved the part of him very well: a darker, more hardened Bosé."

Sánchez acknowledged that after the series his perception of Bosé has changed. “He is unfathomable, he has many layers and a beastly life experience.” Pastor, for his part, admitted that he did not know the singer's entire career and “it has been a very exciting discovery.”

Telecinco has readapted the six episodes of the original series, released in March on the SkyShowtime platform, into four 70-minute episodes. Each of them is named after a song by the artist (El Hijo del Capitán Trueno, Don Diablo, Bandido and Morenamía) that functions as a common thread for the events that are narrated.