Something has disturbed the peace of the once idyllic town of Pedraza. The beautiful square of the medieval town is deserted, the restaurants where the famous suckling pig was served are closed. Nobody lives in Pedraza anymore and only a couple of YouTubers specialized in paranormal phenomena dare to walk through its streets. This is how the second season of 30 Coins begins, the series by Álex de la Iglesia that will premiere on HBO Max on October 23 and that before landing on the platform has made a stop at the Sitges Festival with its director and a good part of the cast.
Meanwhile, young Elena (Megan Montaner) is still in a coma in the hospital, although she is not alone, because her lover Paco (Miguel Ángel Silvestre) comes to see her every day and never forgets to bring her a fresh rose. On the Côte d'Azur, Merche (Macarena Gómez) has managed to make almost all of her dreams come true thanks to possessing one of the 30 silver coins for which Judas sold Jesus Christ. In New York, a millionaire buys a strange object at auction for an exorbitant price. And in the Segovian mountains, Sergeants Salcedo (Nuria González) and Lagunas (Pepón Nieto) try to find out what terrible and inexplicable event led the inhabitants of Pedraza to the grave or the asylum.
Yesterday the Sitges Festival programmed the first two episodes of this second season of 30 coins. Is it possible to approach the series without having seen the first part? Its protagonists believe so and in a conversation with La Vanguardia they give a few good reasons about the characteristics of their characters for first-time viewers to join the mystery of Pedraza.
Miguel Ángel Silvestre explains that he plays Paco "the mayor of a town of 47 inhabitants, simple, transparent, very loved by the neighbors and connected to nature", but when the place is shocked by strange events "Paco gains a strength that will need to fight for his survival and to watch over Elena, who holds the key to saving humanity." Montaner plays Elena who, on the one hand, is in a coma, but who, in parallel, "lives in the underworld tortured and guarded by monsters." "It's the fault of an old millennial woman who left me like this," says the actress.
Paco and Elena seem like the good guys in the movie, but "we shouldn't take anything for granted, because we are all good until a coin touches us," they point out in unison. Cosimo Fusco points out the importance of the script and of Álex de la Iglesia who "explores the path of truth" and Macarena Gómez adds that "working with De la Iglesia is like getting on a high-speed train. You have to get inside his mind "Not all actors can do it," says the interpreter who plays "Merche, a businesswoman whose husband (Paco) has abandoned her and joins forces with very powerful people to try to get him back."
Álex de la Iglesia, who has also attended Sitges, his main festival, but who canceled the interviews he had arranged with the media yesterday morning, later offered a press conference in which he explained that this second delivery of 30 coins It was filmed in 27 weeks in Spain, Italy, the United States, France and the United Kingdom and he assured: "HBO has put all its trust in us and this season is a little more ambitious than the previous one but much more in terms of story, creativity and enjoyment of the genre".
The second season of 30 Coins promises to bring many mysteries and concerns to the table and it also seems that it will give way to a third: "The ending is open, De la Iglesia is already working on the script for the third part and has been giving us some pills of what will happen", reveal the actors of this series with an ensemble cast.
