David Serrano, who grew up in the 1980s, says the G-Men are the first group that decided he really liked it, and not because others liked it too. This is the main reason (among others) why he has moved on ‘I’m going to have fun’, the summer musical comedy that evokes those years thanks to the music of the legendary Madrid group. Both with him and with the cast of children we had the opportunity to speak at the premiere of the film.
The Spanish director explained, in fact, how the entire process of making the film was. ‘I’m going to have fun’ comes six years after the premiere of ‘We have to talk’, but Serrano didn’t stop: “In recent years I have mainly worked in musical theater, I have done a lot of theatrical works. I directed the first season of “Vote Juan”, which was like shooting another movie, and I prepared the rehearsals and the staging. This offer arrives at the end of 2019. Enrique López Lavigne calls me and says: “I have the rights to Hombres G, take a look and see if you can think of a film we can make”. I decided to tell my life because Hombres G was the first group I decided I liked it, not that I liked it because someone else liked it”.
Once the production company and the group gave the green light, the project began to move forward. To accurately recreate that time, Serrano had to use both memory and archives: “It’s a very autobiographical story. The protagonist is called David because I’m telling my life, my first love, the story with my friends. But there are a lot of things you don’t remember well, so we also did a lot of archival work with the art director and the costume designer. I passed him pictures from when I was that age. He has also done very, very, very thorough documentation work. I also looked for all those expressions that the boys are releasing, especially the character of Luis “explained the manager.
With a plot split between the 1980s and today, it was crucial to build continuity between the child and adult versions of the characters: “We had a big advantage and that is that I shot the children’s part in August last year and the adult part in February of this year. We wanted the film to be made by Karla Souza, yes or yes, but Karla is a superstar, lives in Los Angeles, a movie with Jamie Foxx will be released soon and has a very busy schedule “. Waiting for Souza for seven months prompted the director to rethink adult story from scratch. “Alberto, the editor, helped me to rewrite the script because we were editing the part for children and we were seeing what we needed. I completely rewrote the adult part and what I did was pass the script to the adult actors so that they could get close to the characters without falling into imitations.”Serrano commented.
However, one of the challenges that “I will have fun” had to face was to capture the attention of the new generations while maintaining a clear nostalgic factor: “I think that although today’s children are very different from us, exactly the same thing happens to them when they fall in love. In the end I’m talking about a universal thing, which is when you see someone for the first time and you say “Wow, I just want them to kiss me”. Because then at that age you fall in love in two seconds, you don’t need anything else “Serrano says.
Some young professionals
The very young cast also commented on what it was like to deal with this necessary similarity between the two versions of the characters. Except for Renata Hermida, none of them had the opportunity to collaborate with their analogue actor or actress while preparing for the role. “In my case, one day I met Karla Souza and she asked me to record an audio for her by saying a phrase from the script that she had to say with a Spanish accent in order to practice.remembers Ermida. Izan Fernández did not have the opportunity to speak with Raúl Arévalo or Rodrigo Díaz to do the same with Dani Rovira. Even so, Rodrigo Gibaja, who plays Luis, was contacted by the adult version of him: “Raúl Jiménez told me that he had studied my character and how he played him”revealed the young actor.
In the field of choreography, the whole group admits that they felt at ease. “With Iker Karrera, the choreographer, we get along very well when it comes to doing the choreography, we also feel very comfortable with the dancers right from the start”Diaz stated. Izan, on her part, also commented on it “there have been many hours of work, effort and dedication”. The actor, who has already participated in the musical ‘The Lion King’, explains the differences between a musical in the theater and one in the cinema: “They are more difficult in the theater because they are live, so if you make a mistake or something inconvenient happens, it is something more difficult to solve. However, in the movies you just repeat it.”.
Source: E Cartelera
