The acclaimed Mexican director Manolo Caro returns to the comedy genre in his new project “Snakes and stairs”, a series that will be available soon in Netflix and that marks a return to the scathing humor that consolidated him as one of the most recognized creators in the Spanish -speaking world.
In this new production of black comedy, Caro seeks to portray the double standards of Mexican high society, as well as to leave a reflection on power, status and human contradictions.
In exclusive interview with Forbes Mexicothe director tells us more in detail of this new series, its evolution as a narrator and the creative impulse that continues to take to break molds, now worldwide.
Throughout his career as director, Caro has managed to explore various genres such as musical, romance, drama, among others; However, comedy is comfortable, but not from “a Comfort area, but I feel more comfortable to be able to investigate new universes, to be more punctual, more incisive in certain characters, certain stories.”
With this, the director says that he has always been considered a comedian, and therefore, in his projects of this genre, he seeks One of my pending subjects always, and I have done it from “La Casa de las Flores”, “The immoral life of the ideal couple”, and now in “Snakes stairs.”
Precisely, since this production is a black comedy that mainly addresses morality, Manolo Caro says that this issue in society “has become very absurd (…) has a price and has a cost. It has how far it affects you and how far you allow it; suddenly we see each other very permissible with people who by a social or political or power impact, it is convenient for us to turn a blind eye”.
Likewise, because of the same problem portrayed in his project, he says he feels nervous about the premiere, since before a comment on how some characters make direct references to political and social characters in Mexico, he realized how that idea had passed to be alone in his head, to be reflected on the screen, and how this could be considered an act of courage in several situations that currently lives the country.
“I believe that if one does not put the finger on the sore in what he is doing, if there is no nerve, if there is no discomfort, what we do does not make sense. I like to laugh at myself, I think it is the best starting point to make comedy (…) and from there I obviously interest me to speak and open the dialogue of injustices or critical things that happen in my country in this case, because ‘ A microcosm that speaks of how political and social behavior is in Mexico, and how absurd it can be. ”
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Its closeness and creative process next to Cecilia Suárez
The winning actress of the Ariel Prize, Cecilia Suárez, again joins Manolo Caro in “Snakes and Stairs” after not working together since 2019 on the set of the movie “Someone has to die”, something that he considers a “beautiful reunion”, because Suárez and Caro share a unique complicity every time they collaborate, since in the words of the director “when I write female characters, and when I write characters Intiring where your acting process will go, I know your work tool very well, I know very well your way of making the characters.
He also mentioned how the shooting process being together is accelerated thanks to how they manage to combine their ideas and discuss them when there is something that the other considers to be modified.
“Suddenly we have discussions (…) she tells me ‘This is already too too much to me’, and sometimes there is something that does not. We reach very fast conclusions, we move very quickly on the set. I always say that that should be appreciated a lot because we are very agile to work,” said Caro, adding that Cecilia Suárez is “an actress who is getting more and more tuned in her instrument. unreferent in the world of Mexican and Latin American action. ”
Manolo Caro is committed to exporting Mexican narratives
“Making cinema is one of the most wonderful things that has happened to me,” he describes his experience in this art, however, he says that his greatest success has obtained it thanks to the television format, because it is cataloged as “an animal of consuming television” from a very young With the viewer and I have a lot of fun having a longer tour and a tour of characters. ”
According to the element of precisely the characters, the director has a badge in them when characterized by being histrionic and exaggerated, although mainly it seeks that the audience empathizes with them despite the extravagance they can show; This undoubtedly achieves it thanks to the television “gives time” to develop them in a deep way.
And without a doubt, characters who are in an enveloping and critical plot have defined the style and success that Caro currently consecrates, now taking it to the international sphere where it considers that it is “a necessity” to continue telling Mexican stories. “And even more than a need is what I can put on the table. I don’t know other idiosyncrasy, I don’t know other ways of behaving in societies.”
In this same thread, the director assured that, being currently working on a project in the United States usually has some criticisms about the behavior of their characters: “They are very Latin behaviors, they are behaviors from a place where coexistence, where education is different (…). Then I believe that my position is to continue creating these characters.”
“Snakes and stairs”, the new Manolo Caro series, will premiere on May 14 through Netflix, representing its commitment to social criticism with a unique sense of humor and aesthetics that defines the director.
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