Imanol Arias. /
The actor apologizes to the public channel after assuring that it is “unbearable” to work on it and accusing the PSOE of being behind the supposed cancellation of the series
Conclusiveness of Ganga Producciones on the protagonist of its most mythical fiction. The producer of ‘Tell me how it happened’ feels “embarrassed” and shows her rejection of Imanol Arias’s criticism of TVE, in which she claimed that it was “unbearable” to work on the public channel, in addition to insinuating that behind the supposed cancellation of the series would be the pressure of the PSOE, through the board of directors of RTVE, for addressing in the current season the corruption in the last legislature of Felipe González.
Ganga points out that “no person” in the production company “shares the statements made by Imanol.” “We feel embarrassed by them,” says the company forcefully, which also shows its respect for the decisions of the RTVE board of directors and all the workers of the public corporation. “The assumption that any of them could have vetoed ‘Cuéntame’ because of any of its plots is, in addition to crazy, false,” the creators of the veteran fiction deny.
The production company, which is in full negotiations with the chain for the renewal of the series for a new season, which could be the last, although there is still no official confirmation, thanks RTVE for the “freedom that it has always offered to authors and interpreters of this television work” and reiterates that “they never received slogans” from the former public entity.
«This production company has been working side by side with TVE for twenty years and we are proud of everything we have achieved together based on solid and continuous work by both parties. We regret that such a positive collaboration can be questioned, ”Ganga ditches in a statement, just a few hours after Imanol Arias’ controversial statements about the state channel.
“I lost the pot”
Minutes after the producer’s statement, Arias apologized on Instagram for some “unfortunate and unfortunate” statements against ‘Cuéntame’ and TVE, “decontextualized in the conversation” and the result of a “verbal heat” on the night of the interview. “It’s unlike me,” he pointed out.
The actor recalled that he has been working on the public channel for the last forty years, with other fiction projects such as ‘Central Brigade’, and he cannot blame him for “anything” in the personal and professional relationship. “I was not fair or honest with the workers of the house, nor with the members of its board of directors (…) I spent three towns, the pot went out of me and, honestly, nothing I said represents me,” explained Imanol , who later added that TVE is like his “family” and “one cannot lose one’s temper with the family”.
political censorship
In an interview on the TeleBilbao program ‘La Kapital’, the actor who brings to life the character of Antonio Alcántara spoke openly about the political censorship that, in his opinion, has led to the cancellation of ‘Cuéntame’. He pointed to the first chapter of the season, where the former Vice President of the Government Narcís Serra came out demanding that a doctor be brought out on television to justify the death of an ETA member and thus prevent public opinion from talking about the former director of the Civil Guard, Luis Roldán, then tried and convicted, one of the cases of corruption that most affected the government of Felipe González.
“Someone from the board of directors (RTVE), a socialist and a woman who earns 7,500 euros a month, said: ‘We have to cut off these heads’, because we are beginning to tell a story that is very bad for the PSOE,” said the actor, which is why, three weeks later, the news came out in the media that ‘Cuéntame’ would end forever.
In the conversation with Joseba Solozábal, the interpreter also charged harshly against the corporation’s workers, accusing them of “doing nothing” and saying that “there are plenty. “I hope not to return to anything public in this country for a long time. It’s unbearable,” he said.
#producer #Cuéntame #embarrassed #Imanol #Arias #criticism #TVE