Juan Echanove is not afraid of anything that is put in front of him. His mantra is that he has "everything left to do." He directs in the theater -Pan y toros- and since tonight, with many months of delay since it was recorded and already broadcast on Prime Video, premieres on Telecinco (23.00 hours) the second season of the series Desaparecidos, where he returns to play Inspector Abad.

It's not an easy role. He faces the search for missing persons and, as always, puts himself in the shoes of his characters. This time it is the turn of a policeman who has to manage a complicated police brigade and above all the pain and anguish of the loss of a loved one: "It is unimaginable what must be suffered".

The new season starts two years after the last events that marked Group 2 of the Central Brigade for the Investigation of Crimes against Persons, its troops, commanded by Chief Inspector Abad, face a new period marked by changes and new responsibilities on a personal level, a part that surprisingly stands out in Echanove's interpretation. Inspector Abad is not a typical policeman.

How do you manage a role in which you have to face the harshness of a disappearance? I am facing a character who, in addition to having very important human traits, in addition to the life he leads and the work he leads, needs, to sustain all this, a lot of precision. The way to approach a character like Inspector Abbot is to be as meticulous in the composition of the role as in the understanding of the character.
In the series you put yourself in the place of those who live these terrible situations. How would you react if it happened to you? By making this series you get closer to this drama. But no matter how much you are close because you work it, because you investigate it, because you prepare it... No matter how much you get a little closer it is impossible to imagine so much suffering
Desaparecidos now premieres on open television after having premiered months ago on Prime Video, is it a model that works or does television live increasingly subject to the new industry of the platform? Is it positive?
I can not give you a real and well-founded opinion because right now in the world of what is the exhibition a premiere is something that is so far from the shooting. Before you knew when it was released, today I really think that a lot is produced, but that makes the chains make the compromises they consider so that the products go ahead. Honestly, when they call me to do a job I never know the date on which it will be able to be issued with what I just live and enjoy it. And I tell you more, it is impossible to know what is best for a production. But if it is released first on a platform and then open, if it is done it is for a reason.


In this new season and after a dramatic and open ending, the effort to discover the whereabouts of the disappeared will lead Chief Inspector Abad and his team to sometimes confront the police and judicial authorities, while trying to clarify a wide range of cases, such as that of a teenager whose trail has vanished on the way from home to school; an elderly man who has lost track and whose life is in danger if he does not receive his medication; a man who disappears in strange circumstances on his wedding day; and an evicted drug addict whom her son is incessantly looking for, among others.

The new season of Desaparecidos promises to continue with the cases that remained open, such as Carmen's and her titanic struggle to recover her son Pablo. Probably the case that impacts the most and for which the entire brigade suffers the most.

Would you dare to direct a series like Desaparecidos? The direction is very complex and in a series like Desaparecidos much more. I dare everything, but I feel more comfortable in the direction of the stages. You've done comedy, thriller, now police, you're still directing Pan y toros... Which one do you choose? With everyone. Basically, all the work I do has to be consistent. I don't care about comedy, action... What I try to do is to do my job better and better. And for this I see things, I feel and do things that open my ability to do my job well, which is none other than to direct and interpret. It doesn't matter what it is because the goal is to present a story to be told and for people to vibrate when you tell it. I like to perfect traits of my work that I have identified by seeking and refining them whenever I have the opportunity. To renew oneself, to always renew oneself. In addition, now the renewal requires a lot of dedication, so in order to metabolize everything that is created in the scenic art, which obviously runs that peels, you have to be very clear that renewal is not the future, it is the present.
What roles do you have left to do for Juan Echanove? Everything, but everything, everything. Right now I feel the same as I was 25 or 30 years ago. I'm waiting for life to surprise me and have any opportunity.Is it time for televisions to bet on good fictions? What does good fiction have to have? They have to have something that moves, that the story moves, that interests and the better the story the more engaging. It doesn't matter if it's comedy, drama, dramon, apocalyptic, on all that scale the key is to move. It is a good moment of creation because there is a good moment of production. There are people who say that it is a bubble, but the truth is that the production of recent years is very good.
Better now than before, then? How when Canal Plus existed? I do not know from what point a criterion can be made to compare. Platform television has more tendency to the style of movies per chapter, all pull. It has a more content there and has to do with seeing everything. However, in free-to-air television, the trend of lifelong television series continues to prevail.


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