Daniel Grao (Sabadell, 1976) has worked in countless series (‘La Catedral del Mar’, ‘Gigantes’, ‘Perdida’, ‘Promesas de arena’ …), but in none as in ‘HIT’ He had been so moved by the ‘feedback’ received from the public. Above all, because it comes from young people or parents who have been helped by the way of understanding the education (and life) of the protagonist of the TVE-1 series.
Do you think the series needed the change of scenery (location and characters) that it has experienced in this second season?
It was vital, because if you did not have the feeling of stretching the gum. I understand that the previous group of boys was loved, but the season has already ended up solving most of the cases. And when we go to another reality, to a more rural Spain, HIT is more uncomfortable and has to empathize with new people.
His character helps the boys, but he still has weaknesses. Does that make you closer?
What I like most about the character is that he is not a superhero, he is not infallible. He falls, stumbles, you have areas to work on, he is imperfect … But he rolls up his sleeves and does the work at the same time as the students, and that is very nice. In addition, in this second season we see a more fragile, more vulnerable HIT, his methods in this new reality do not work and he contacts the feeling of failure. It was nice to add that layer of greater vulnerability.
Do you see things of your adolescent self in students who have HIT?
I lived through a complicated adolescence, especially in my family, with a context that was not easy, although much more serene on my part. But you can always feel identified with one.
In your case, with which one?
Jacobo, who has an attention deficit. That was not my case, but there is something in his personality that I have seen in me, because I was very shy and had certain complexes. But my adolescence, in aggressiveness and behavior, was much calmer. Then, what does surprise me if I compare myself not with the characters, but with the actors, is that I remember my 16 years much more innocent.
The current generation is ahead of the previous ones, it passes before the stage.
I see their heads very well furnished. Even the most insecure express it to you in a very clever way and you think: I would have liked to be so clear about it! I have also noticed the tendency to ignore young people, especially when they are in a group. Logically they can be silly, because they are 15 or 16 years old, but then you have conversations with them, they change the tone and you realize what they have to offer and their admirable predisposition. It has helped me to give myself a wake-up call and say: we are going to treat you with respect.
You are also the father of a pre-adolescent.
The oldest is 13 years old, dangerously close to adolescence.
Does it make you dizzy?
Much. You try to be on top, ask if he has homework, and I have noticed that there is a certain discomfort beginning. I think you have to keep updating as a parent all the time, because sometimes we continue to see ourselves treated by our parents as if we were kids and no, the relationship has to change because we have to delegate and trust, although looking askance.
Do you recommend ‘HIT’, above all, to watch it with your children?
Totally. In fact, of the ‘feedbacks’ that I receive with HIT there are two aspects that excite me a lot that had not happened to me before with other series: quite a few young people who have sent me private messages telling me that they were admitted through an addiction and that they thank me for what they did. that HIT is helping them. And many parents who come to tell me that they have adolescent children and that they cannot find a way to approach them, but that watching the series has sparked a debate among them. Sometimes they don’t even speak it, but they glance at each other and understand each other better. HIT is a bit of that, a hinge character between two generations.
“HIT is a hinge character between two generations”
It helps them understand the other.
Yes. In many issues it is not going to give you solutions, I wish a series could give them, but at least it shows it. Part of solving a problem is becoming aware that you have it, and the series goes there, because it makes a kid understand his father or the other way around. The series does not teach, but shows realities where you can feel identified and makes you live from one side or the other. Then, with more serious problems, the solution is going to be given to you by you to get to work on it and seek help.
Do you watch the series with your children?
The little one is 8 years old and I think he still has to wait a little while to see it, although he has participated in a chapter.
Really?
He had a small participation in this second season, in a kind of mutiny in a factory. The older one also appeared in the first season.
When?
In a chapter in which there was a kind of reverie in which HIT was 11 years old. Joaquín Oristrell, the director, told me that they would not find anyone more like me than my son, so I asked him and he said yes. It was a one-day thing and you haven’t even seen the scene.
Why?
It is that it is very strange that his father is HIT. He says he will see her later.
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There are going to be actors.
I don’t think … Although you never know, because at his age it didn’t seem like I was going to dedicate myself to this either.
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