The creator of 'Cuéntame' attacks the actors of the series mercilessly

Tell Me How It Happened has accompanied viewers for more than 22 years.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
16 November 2023 Thursday 15:24
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The creator of 'Cuéntame' attacks the actors of the series mercilessly

Tell Me How It Happened has accompanied viewers for more than 22 years. The series has become one of the longest running series on television and everyone has heard of it. However, everything that begins comes to an end, and his turn has come.

And there are only two chapters left for the Alcántara family to say goodbye forever in a final season that has served as a tribute to its most important characters. Although they would have wanted to have a nice ending, it is being marred by the statements that María Galiana offered against the scriptwriters and their forceful response.

"In 23 years I have only played the role of grandmother, it seems to me to waste myself (...) I would have liked to be more things," said the interpreter of Herminia. But if there is something that has not sat well with many, it is that he directly attacked some scriptwriters. "There have been quite stubborn scriptwriters who didn't understand what we were doing," she added.

A few words for which some of these have not hesitated to speak publicly and charge against the actress. "I have not spoken with the scriptwriters who have suffered this swing, but I imagine that they must have felt very affected because it is very unfair," said Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara, one of the creators of the fiction.

During a colloquium of the Spanish Screenwriters' Union (ALMA), Ladrón de Guevara has, in turn, charged against some of the actors of the legendary series. "In this series there were actors with little education. I have suffered a lot because, at what is called the Italian table, we met and read the scripts, the actors became the great inquisitors," he stated.

As he said, some wanted to take control of the characters. Something that "creates a lot of insecurity for the scriptwriter and turns the series into a circus."

But if there is something that has surprised, it is that he did not mince his words in attacking one of the actresses directly: Irene Visedo, interpreter of Inés Alcántara. "At first, it must have been chapter three or four, we came to the table to read the script and an actress, when we were about to start, took out of her bag a script that she had written. The actress's name was Irene Visedo, and I was stunned," he said.

As he said, that was the moment that triggered many actors to get "on the backs of everything." Something that he directly attributes to some errors in the series: "That's how it went for us in many moments." "Apart from how humiliating it is, it creates a frankly bad atmosphere. I never reproached him, but whenever I have had the opportunity, I have reported this unfortunate event," he added.