If by name they do not fall, when you tell them that Diego San Jose he is one of the scriptwriters of the film ‘Eight Basque surnames‘They will quickly recognize his great talent for comedy. A genre in which he does not mind being pigeonholed. Although with the saga of his creation starring Juan Carrasco, ‘Vote Juan ‘,’ Let’s go Juan ‘ and the recently released (on HBO Max) ‘Venga Juan’, has explored that “sad comedy” that he likes so much as a viewer. San José, scriptwriter also of films like ‘Pagafantas’, ‘Fe de Etarras’ and’ Superlópez ‘ and the programs ‘Popcorn’ and ‘José Mota’s night’ enjoy making the poor suffer? Juan Carrasco, by placing him in very difficult situations. Now she has left him alone and put him in prison.
The jury of Ondas award, which has received this year ‘Vamos Juan’, says, among other things, that this series shows how difficult it is to successfully make a good comedy and how difficult it is to be a good politician.
That “how difficult it is to be a good politician” I liked a lot. Because it shows that whoever has valued the series has understood it. And there are people who expect us to crush politicians, ridicule them and place ourselves above. And that is not the series we wanted to do, but to tell what complex it must be, if they put the minister’s jacket on us, do it well. And not make the most absolute ridiculous.
You comment, without shame, that you are typecast in comedy. But this is not much.
It is a comedy in spite of itself. It wants to be a drama, but it is all so sloppy, so clumsy, so shabby, that even if you don’t want to, it ends up being comedy. And yes, it is true that I am pigeonholed into comedy, because I have written projects that have been very successful and for producers that puts you in a place. I love comedy and it is no problem to be pigeonholed. However, within comedy there are many registers. There is it more absurd, more serious … And now I’m really enjoying telling the tone that interests me the most as a spectator, in a sadder comedy such as Venga Juan. Which is sometimes a drama. A dry drama.
And that’s why they avoid easy jokes and abuse gags.
When you do comedy, you have the urge to make everything funny all the time, and that can cause it to become a joke. And it stops having serious depth. Giving up some jokes to make everything seem more realistic, and there are moments of pain, makes when there are laughs, they are better.
In each season there is a different Juan Carrasco. Also physically. In this one he has hair.
Whenever we start a season, we think about what the photo is. What image differentiates one from another on the poster. In the first, he had a beard, in the second, no, and in this, hair. Having the stamp places us.
One can not think of anyone better to give life than Javier Chamber.
He is one of those actors who makes you laugh the same and in the next sequence makes you cry. You can take yourself very seriously by doing drama. And that we have been promoting.
Do you enjoy being a ‘showrunner’ more, which means more involvement, than just being a screenwriter?
I write I write, what happens is that now, in addition, I have the possibility to make decisions, participate in the ‘casting, be’ on the set to remember why we are doing a scene that way … But it is not just for enjoyment personal, but whoever has been writing the series for months will always have a useful and practical opinion during filming. Because things may escape and you are there to remember it.
Are you considering a … ‘Wow Juan’?
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Or ‘Viva Juan’. There will still be an unused vee verb. We always end the seasons in a self-contained way, in case we don’t come back. And the third is the most. If it is successful and the chain wants, we would return, of course. But I would be very comfortable if it ended at the point where this third one ends, leaving Juan and Macarena in a beautiful place.
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