Girls' Night, the new Spanish production that arrived at Disney this Wednesday, is not a party comedy (although it does have comic touches) as the title might suggest. It is a fast-paced action series that poses the same moral debate to the viewer as it does to its five protagonists: “Do we sometimes have to take justice into our own hands?” María León (The Left-Handed Son), Leticia Dolera (Perfect Life), Silvia Alonso (Fuerza de Paz) and Aislinn Derbez (The House of Flowers) and Paula Usero (Luimelia) play these five protagonists. The first three spoke with La Vanguardia about this fiction.
The plot begins in the summer of 2010. Five friends return to the town in the mountains of Madrid where they spent their summers as teenagers. His idea is to spend the weekend remembering old times and watch the soccer World Cup final. However, their plan changes radically when they discover that one of them has kidnapped three town residents who raped a minor and were not convicted for it.
It is a story of 'rape and revenge', “a genre that in itself has always made me very angry,” confesses Leticia Dolera, although she adds that she felt attracted to participate in this proposal because of the mixture of thriller, suspense and comedy "and because the series also talks about the friendship of adolescence in adult life that is sometimes difficult to sustain, or that must be modified because nothing is going to be the same as before."
The actress, screenwriter and director highlights the positive value of the series as showing “that a group of friends accept that they are different, that their lives have taken different paths but that they continue to love and support each other and that the sum of all of them together is greater than if they go separately.”
For María León, “the fact of receiving a script in which the protagonists are five women was a joy.” She highlights about the series that “it is a cocktail of genres like life itself” and that since “we raise such complex and painful topics, if there was no comedy part it would be very difficult to watch.”
“There are five girls who have been involved in this mess but they are not the five heroines who right now are spreading their hair and going after their aggressors,” continues Silvia Alonso. “The five protagonists are not very clear about what to do, but they decide to do things differently.”
One of the characters in the series states in a scene: “Justice goes as far as it goes and from there it's time to improvise.” Is it, along with friendship, the other common thread of the series, whether or not to take justice into his own hands? "Yeah. The series raises the questions and the complexity of the debate,” responds Dolera. And Alonso details: “My character, for example, comes from a situation in which she has opted for justice and has also encouraged another person to do so but in the end justice has not worked as she would have liked.”
“The series reflects the frustration of thousands of women who have found that when they have gone to report. "They were the ones judged," says Dolera. “I understand that since they are crimes that are committed in intimacy and in private, there is an interesting debate around the presumption of innocence, but it is clear that hundreds of thousands of women do not agree each year to make complaints of sexist violence. and sexual assaults that are false.”
In Spain, a rape is reported every four hours and not even 70% of attacks are reported, reveals Dolera. “That frustration turned into pain and anger sometimes leads to the victims themselves ending up being executioners. This is good? Well no, because the executioner ends up being a victim of himself,” concludes Dolera.
