They hired the largest transgender cast in the history of Spanish cinema.
The directors of the groundbreaking HBO series "Veneno," about a transgender TV star of the 90s, tell Brut why it was so important to hire trans people in front of the camera, and behind it.
The directors of the groundbreaking HBO series "Veneno," about a transgender TV star of the 90s, tell Brut why it was so important to hire trans people in front of the camera, and behind it.
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00:00We said, this series can only be made if the cast is made up of trans people
00:06and in the technical teams there is at least one trans person in each department,
00:10otherwise it can't be done.
00:11I don't understand how a director or a producer would like it not to be like this.
00:31I think it goes against the project itself, against the characters themselves, against everything.
00:37I think that putting a cis man to play a trans woman is going against the narrative itself
00:43and that if we had done it, we would have lost beautiful things.
00:48I think we have only had positive things because they are the ones that have guided us.
00:52Because Javi and I are two cis men leading a series about a trans woman, about many trans women.
00:59So we needed to have a lot of information, a lot of support, where to raise our doubts,
01:09where to really talk about the script, talk about the experiences and where to be sure of what we do.
01:15Do you know why you don't want to be bothered? Because she is very depressed.
01:30So she doesn't want anyone to bother her.
01:32She says, no, no, who are you? No, get away from me, I don't want any poison.
01:39She's not there.
01:41Having all those differences of experiences, of faces, of experiences, of looks, of truth, of grace, of talent.
01:51When we were in the West Park, we only had to say,
01:54so get in this car and how would you get close?
01:56And many women who had experienced that in their lives would say,
01:59well, we come to this one and we say, I don't know what, you son of a bitch, stingy.
02:03And it was already gaining life.
02:05So it was a reality and it was a time that we did not know
02:08and thanks to them it was able to gain life with a brutal wealth,
02:14because they helped us and how they spoke, how they expressed themselves, how they informed us.
02:22I don't know what director would like to lose all that.
02:26Already from a point of view, even selfish, they would have to do it.
02:29And then everything that has to do with research.
02:34If you are going to talk about a topic, what better way than to do it accompanied in the technical team,
02:40in all departments, have people who know about that topic.
02:43Who wouldn't want that, right?
02:45It's absurd.
02:46Basically, not having done it means that there was transphobia.
02:51Because everyone wanted it.
02:52It's like if you are going to do something about a topic,
02:54who wouldn't want all departments to know about that first-hand topic?
02:58All of them.
02:59It was not being done because we were in front of a glass roof.
03:04It was not being done because we were in front of a glass roof.