Otherwise, we’re going to be just left behind. But we have to be ready to go into this journey. I don’t think we pretend to give you an answer, because we don’t have it ourselves. It’s about raising questions, being able to confront ourselves and question ourselves. Definitely, we have to confront ourselves with our own masculinity. And when I say “we,” I might be talking about most of the men involved in this project. He does almost a complete 180: He goes from absolute machismo to volunteering to take sexual harassment trainings. You encapsulated that idea well in Ruy’s character. It’s the political polarization we’re living today, how difficult it is to find a common ground with others, how easy it is to feel so left behind with all the changes happening in front of us - in terms of the relation with our own demons, our masculinity and our own machismo, the violence that we’ve normalized, how little respect runs all of our relations. So it was easy to include the idea of Covid because I think it was already responding to that big question that Covid brought to us.Īnd then we rewrote while we had the pandemic, and we said, “We should include it, because we are also hoping to portray a modern love story.” And a modern love story has to respond to what’s out there. The story already kind of responded to the main question I think Covid brought to us, which is: Are you ready to change every dynamic, everything you think you need? You might have to rethink about it. How did you decide to include the Covid-19 pandemic? We’ll find a way.” The title helped us a lot: “Everything Will Be Fine,” don’t worry, we’ll find a way. And we’ll manage to do something now that everything has stopped. I’ll shoot it from beginning to end, I’ll direct the whole thing. And I remember telling everyone in the company: “This is the moment. And I didn’t know when I was going to be back on set shooting anything as an actor. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. “And we carry the expectations of so many generations and social pressure that it almost becomes, then, impossible to be yourself.”īetween drags from his cigarette, Luna talked about the directing bug, how Covid made us think and what it means to say goodbye. “We shouldn’t be carrying the expectations of anyone else when we’re talking about something so personal, like creating our own family,” Luna said. “And we all also have someone who cares about us.” Her new family unit has broken the mold - with an arrangement that, for them, feels healthier and happier. “We all have a mother we all have a father,” Andrea sings. In the final episode, after the Covid-19 pandemic arrives in full force, the characters break into song. That’s when pressure boils over into passion, resulting in a three-way sex scene not unlike the one in “Y Tu Mamá También,” the 2001 film by Alfonso Cuarón that gave Luna his breakout acting role.Īnd just like that, the family dynamic shifts. Julia, Ruy and Fausto are forced to work together to find her. While she and Ruy are separated, she becomes romantically involved with Andrea’s dentist, Fausto (Pierre Louis).īut things really take a turn in Episode 7 when Andrea runs away from home, upset by her parents’ uncoupling. For his wife, Julia, that’s the last straw. The father, Ruy, who works at a radio station, gets called out on the air for sexual improprieties. The show, which debuted last week and is Luna’s first time directing and showrunning a TV series - follows a small nuclear family in Mexico City as two parents (played by Flavio Medina and Lucía Uribe) struggle to comfort their young daughter, Andrea (Isabella Vázquez Morales), as their marriage falls apart. “About rethinking the idea of marriage, rethinking the idea of family, and making sure we are in charge of deciding what family should be for us.” “Covid confronted us with the idea of: Are you around the people you need to be around?” Luna, who created, directed and oversaw the series, said in a video interview from London last week. Sharply and decisively, Luna jerks the wheel toward a more progressive vision, unbound by tradition or institution. This interview contains spoilers for “Todo Va a Estar Bien.”ĭiego Luna’s new Spanish-language Netflix series “Everything Will Be Fine” (“Todo Va a Estar Bien”) follows in the well-worn grooves of a traditional romantic or family drama - until it doesn’t.
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