Edoardo Casanova made his debut as a director for a series with ‘silence’a cocktail shaker in which dark humor, vampirism, and social stigma are brought to bear with the coronavirus pandemic HIV Background through which it aims to demonstrate the need to give a voice to these invisible victims who hide “for fear of rejection”.
mini series (Movistar Plus+, December 1) Premiere on World HIV Day To remind victims and survivors of the disease of an unconventional and transgressive story of vampires, played by a luxurious cast hidden under kilos of makeup.
“”silenceIt’s framed in the HIV pandemic, mixed with vampire fantasy and horror films, where he’s forced to keep things quiet for fear of cancellation, of what people will say, of rejection. I fight not to be silent. “It’s hard for me to silence myself,” he says. Casanova (Madrid, 1991).
This way the chain, from Three ringsIt tells the story of vampire sisters who have survived in hiding for centuries, facing the challenge of finding healthy blood to feed on, first in the face of a threat… Black deathAnd after AIDS.
He explains: “The series talks about one thing very clearly, which is that silence leads to death. Everything you keep silent about kills you inside, and we are living in a moment where I think it is very important not to back down from anything for fear of the consequences.”
Casanova (Director, screenwriter and executive producer) Surrounded by a luxurious cast that brings to life, hidden behind elaborate makeup, Lucía Diez, Mariola Fuentes, Leticia Dolera, Omar Ayuso and Carolina Rubio.
“I think the funny thing is that. Because the reality is that they don’t get recognized. For me, the makeup was very important. After I decided to make vampires who use prosthetics, it helped a lot with the idea that the actresses themselves feel muted.”
To do this, he transformed the actresses with “kilos” of heavy silicone, colored contact lenses that made them see blurry, and prosthetic ears and fingers that did not allow them to see. Listen carefully Or he forced them to go to the bathroom: “It helped them understand what you can go through when you don’t have the ability to.” Express yourself freelyHe adds.
A series that mixes humor and terrifying scenes, not because of the presence of vampires in the cast, but because of the crudeness of the sex and drug scenes on that path to hell that the disease leads to, and through which they aim to make the viewer think.
“It might be my job at some point uncomfortable, But I think that in culture or art or even entertainment it’s important to feel uncomfortable because it makes us feel good New ways of thinkingAnd new discourses make us evolve. But I tried hard tosilence“It made me uncomfortable enough, because I wanted to speak to a wider audience,” he points out.
It is a rejection that he himself condemned since his youth, not only from society, but from institutions such as churchIt’s now a trend thanks to the new album Rosalia, “Lux”“It seems very terrible to me that religion And the church institution She is in fashion. An institution that rejected people who were gay or HIV-positive like me.”
The miniseries makes a case for the visibility of women living with HIV and breaking the silence around the disease, through provocative rhetoric and pioneering aesthetics in her other works such as ‘pity’ also “skins”Which earned him all kinds of homophobic attacks on social media.
He concludes: “We are living in a moment of extreme sensitivity where speaking can cause harm to many people. Therefore, one does not know whether to remain silent out of fear or to protect others. This ends up being superficial delivery of speeches, and in culture and art, we should not be satisfied with completely politically correct speeches.”