In Mexico in the eighties, the Grecos are an -apparently- traditional family and their patriarch, a retired officer, is their leader, a gang that kidnaps and tortures in exchange for millionaire rewards in order to stay in the “upper class”. ”.
‘El Secreto de la Familia Greco’ is the new series from Telemundo Streaming Studios and Underground (this November 4), based on the real case of the Puccio clan, which was discovered more than three decades ago and whose story reached television in 2015 and the cinema with the award-winning film ‘El clan’, starring Guillermo Francella.
“I knew the film and when this adaptation came I had this in mind, but we didn’t start from there, we started from the Greco production. Obviously, it is an honor for me”, comments by Zoom, Manuel Masalva, fictional son of Fernando Colunga. The actor plays Andrés Greco, “exemplary son”, athlete and who is described as “the hook” “to access the victims”.
Masalva also played a role based on a real character in the series Narcos, the drug trafficker Ramón Arellano Félix. “It’s an intense story, but it doesn’t focus on organized crime. The goal of the Grecos has a wider range of situations, family, more direct relationships, couples, children, godparents, close friends, school friends”, he says about the dynamics of the family that seeks not to lose its relationships with the can.
“As for Fernando Colunga (Aquiles Greco), my respects to him. With the characterization it looks different and I think he’s a unique character and I think he made it brutal.”
Masalva adds that Andrés Greco is a “complex” character and a challenge. “It was incredible. One always takes learning and living that skin of Andrés Greco was a challenge for me. Obviously, it pushed me to many limits. We are inspired by real characters, but it is a fiction, although there is a previous research work”.
“We are not changing history”
After passing through the Narcos series, Masalva maintains that this is also a current issue, without this meaning that it is “okay” that it continues to happen. “It has a message and we can generate a little more awareness from what we can see in certain stories. It is still valid and does not mean that it is good.
There are situations that happen in the world that are very bad and the job of cinema, television and theater is to bring them to a representation and show it as it is. We are not changing history, we are making a representation”.
In times of streaming, with productions like that of his compatriot Eugenio Derbez, the actor considers that Latin fiction has a “privileged” position.
“And well deserved because we are very hard-working and very talented people. Folklorically we have a lot to give, a lot to tell and not only in period things. In my generation we are very lucky that more and more people are looking at us (smiles). Doing things well, with love and with determination will generate more and more. We are in a great moment and that is beginning. Blessed God! (smile). But you have to be in the right place at the right time, and be prepared.”
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