(EFE).- The series Pancho Villa wants to portray the chiaroscuro in the life of the Mexican revolutionary, who was an anti-hero, a leader but also an executioner, said its director Rafael Lara on Tuesday.
“Pancho Villa was enrolled in two poles, who venerates him almost to the levels of a saint, which makes him a very idealized character, but we have this other part that demonizes him, who speaks of him as a murderer, and when parts of not talking about absolutes you can build more interesting characters,” he said Tuesday at a press conference.
Pancho Villa will be released this Wednesday on the Star+ video platform with 10 chapters, which review the story of Doroteo Arango, known as Pancho Villa, and the role he played in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), one of the fundamental chapters in history from the country.
The Mexican Revolution was an armed movement that began in 1910 to end the dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz (1884-1911) and officially culminated with the promulgation of the new Mexican Constitution of 1917, being the first in the world to recognize social guarantees and collective labor rights.
“There is this gap between rich and poor and exploitation, in that the series is very current, Pancho Villa is still very current,” said the actress Giovanna Zacarías
Lara explained that the story was written with a documentation process but in such a way that anyone in the world can understand it without having to know Mexican history.
Mexican actor Juan Luis Medina said that getting to know the character up close helped him understand the anti-hero and the human being behind it.
“I met an antihero, with a human being with chiaroscuro and it was a fun adventure to tell, incredible, it was meeting a Pancho Villa and a Jorge Jiménez (main actor) with whom we blended in at some point,” said the interpreter, who plays Jáuregui, the right hand of the revolutionary.
The actress Giovanna Zacarías, who gives life to Villa’s mother, declared that the story is current when it touches on a topic such as the gap between rich and poor.
“There is this gap between rich and poor and exploitation, in that the series is very current, Pancho Villa is still very current,” said the actress.
The series was recorded in various locations in Jalisco (western Mexico) to recreate the places in the north of the country where the historical figure had his key moments and experienced his most emblematic battles.
The production took about four years to finish due to economic problems caused by the covid-19 pandemic and involved 700 people.
Pancho Villa It will be available from July 19 in more than 20 languages through the Star+ platform, a Disney affiliate.
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