One night, coincidence throws the fates of Alicia, Emily and Diana upside down. With very different personalities and origins, they will decide that night that the man yelling at them in the street is right. That they are sluts and very proud. And as such they will behave from now on. Together they will explore their sexuality and make those fantasies come true that they have never dared to realize before.
The new Atresplayer series “Zorras” (premiering on Sunday 16 July with two episodes) adapts the novel of the same name by author and journalist Noemí Casquet, who specializes in sexuality. The Zorras, Malas y Libres trilogy was released in 2020 and became an instant bestseller. “If I could describe this story in one word, and I know it’s a very worn word, it would be revolution and freedom. It’s a revolution about female sexuality and female freedom. In fact, I’d say it’s the first series that has a real and non-romantic approach to what it’s like to free a young woman,” says the author.
Featuring the frenetic rhythm typical of the Tiktok era, urban music with vengeful and provocative lyrics, explicit scenes, and plenty of humor and sass, the half-hour episodes tell a tale of female friendship and empowerment through the power that brings pleasure and sex, self-discovery, in short. “It’s also a series full of tenderness,” points out Andrea Ros, who plays the protagonist Alicia, a young woman who moves from her hometown to Madrid in search of the job of her dreams and, along the way, with the monotonous relationship that binds them, has broken up with her boyfriend. “It feels like an erotic series, but there’s a lot of tenderness in it,” Ros continues. Mirela Balić, a Spanish actress of Serbo-Croat origin, agrees and goes further: “Watching her made me think about how funny she is from a human pathos perspective. When someone falls on the street, you laugh because you have compassion, because it could have been you and it has happened to you before. Awkwardness is part of life and there is awkwardness in relationships with friends, in sex…” he asserts. Tai Fati completes the trio: “With this series I have learned to look at myself from a different perspective, with more affection and more self-determination.”
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The three actresses and the author of the books talk to EL PAÍS in a room at the Atresmedia headquarters at the end of June. Recalling the shooting, Andrea Ros, who worked on series like Amar es para siempre and Mar de plástico, points out that most of the department heads were women. “I’ve never worked with so many department heads and it has an incredible impact on the way we work. In terms of maintenance, it works much better. I’m used to more aggressive, violent sets with more stress. In Zorras everyone was happier. One day I wanted my kids to come to the set and the ones who lent me the stroller seats were the production manager and the production manager. Children were always welcome on set as many of us were moms and dads. There was always room for reconciliation. I asked for a day off because it was my children’s first day of school and not only did they give it to me, but this day was filmed at night so the others could go to school with their children. When caring is the focus, everyone is automatically happy.”
The journalist and writer Noemí Casquet, in the Atresmedia headquarters.Samuel Sánchez
In a series where sex plays a fundamental role, intimacy coordinators Lucía Delgado and Tábata Cerezo were integral characters on the set. “These scenes are being edited from a very secure location to give them and the whole team full coverage. We’ve had a few previous rehearsals where they addressed that intimacy and bonding with the scene partner before choreographing the scenes, with exercises like holding the partner’s hand and asking permission to touch each other’s bodies and committing red, green and yellow zones .depending on what you like to show or not, where you are touched or not,” explains Balić, who will join Elite season 7 in October. Ros adds the importance of coordinating with other departments: “They take care of the wardrobe, that our genitals are protected, that they are protected from contact with other people, they coordinate the cameras… It’s not just choreography .” , but they make sure that the whole world is in harmony.
Both the book and the Zorras series have an educational intent, and some characters break the fourth wall to speak directly to the viewer and explain concepts related to sexuality. Casquet, who served as a consultant on the series and has a small part, wanted the audiovisual version of her novel to show “real sexuality.” “We tend to talk a lot about pornography, which is a place of struggle, but another aspect is conventional cinema, which continues to fictionalize at unreal levels what our sexuality and female pleasure looks like. I wanted women’s sexual freedom to be portrayed from the natural and real point of view found in books. And that essence has been retained. The series leaves the same feeling as the book. You think, “I want that with my friends because I want to break free and I want to know who I am because it’s my right and I deserve pleasure.”
Andrea Ros, Tai Fati and Mirela Balic, in an image from “Zorras”.
Finally, what about the sexual liberation of women in Spain? The answer is preceded by a soft chuckle. “Complicated because we still feel like we have to put up with things over and over again. “Women have endured a lot of suffering and we never thought we deserved joy until feminism and the revolution we support and demand,” says Casquet, who defends the power of social media and the internet to build communities and alliances create the stronger. “We still have a long way to go and the focus must not only be on young people but on all possible generations, from 70-year-old women who can still feel joy to six-year-old girls who want to.” are, as a consensus, to educate power, strength, body diversity, self-esteem and knowledge,” he concludes.
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