The fusion of elements such as a heartbreaking story, real testimonies and a great adaptation have achieved that the streaming audience has placed this podcast in a privileged place among the contents that are offered; The success was such that the second season was recently released, also with favorable numbers and the possibility of a third installment.
In this regard, we talked with its creator, the writer and producer Fernando Benavides, who shared the entire story behind the podcast that reached the top of the stream in its two installments.
“Making the first season of Fausto took me about three years, when I introduced it to Javier Piñol, Head of Spotify Studios for Latin America, he was very excited and I immediately had all the support, in fact they gave me an open letter to choose who I want as a narrator ”, he recalls.
Task that was not easy, because in Fernando’s mind several possibilities arose to carry out the great task of giving an intonation to the heartbreaking story about a multihomicide, however, he recognizes that deep down, he always thought of Damián Alcázar as the person in charge of lend a voice to the case.
“I started to write and in a moment of revelation the idea came to me that it should be Damián, I also thought of Daniel Giménez Cacho and even one of the Bichir, but I always had the hunch that it must be him, with whom besides We got to a very interesting click, there were things that he told me that perhaps he hadn’t considered, like who else was going to narrate with him, and he appropriated the character so well that it is reflected in the story, ”Benavides said.
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