Girls in Blue continues to be on our minds! After the tip of the primary season, we sat down to speak with Bárbara Mori and Fernando Rovzar, star and government producer of the present respectively, to speak concerning the significance of telling a narrative with clearly feminist overtones like Girls in Blue and to dissect that final scene that left us with our hearts in our mouths.
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Right here we go!
Contemplating every part that occurs within the final episode of the season of Girls in Blue, by way of every part that’s acknowledged professionally to María and the opposite Girls in Blue and every part that’s not acknowledged to them, along with what occurs of their private lives, Bárbara Mori and Fernando Rovzar shared their ideas on why the ending is so bittersweet.
Rovzar shares that she tried “to painting what actuality sadly is. It’s the reflection of what this sort of victory can be like in my nation, Mexico. As a result of we notice how rather more we nonetheless have to overcome and that the system we search to alter has secondary measures to proceed limiting an entire victory. A single victory doesn’t change the world and that could be a little bit of what I believe we needed to painting: this can be a struggle that, though María, Ángeles, Gabina, and Valentina started in 1971, ladies right this moment, in 2024, in Mexico, proceed to struggle. So I didn’t wish to conclude as if to say ‘and from that, everybody was completely happy,’ as a result of the truth is just not that.”
Bárbara Mori agrees with Rovzar and provides that “the truth of Mexico is that, right this moment, greater than 3,000 ladies are killed inside a yr and that could be a unhappy actuality that has been normalized. For everybody, that’s one thing that occurs generally in our nation. Again then [in 1971] it wasn’t like that, the quantity wasn’t that large and now we’re getting worse. So I believe that this sequence does painting many issues about our society right this moment, regardless of being a sequence that talks about greater than 50 years in the past.”
“It’s a sequence that touches on points that we nonetheless must resolve and that, as on this case, have worsened. So on that facet, it’s alarming, that’s why it’s necessary to speak about these issues. Then again, I believe that María, Gabina, Ángeles, and Valentina characterize these ladies who on the time have been the pioneers, they have been the primary feminine cops who created, let’s say, the bases, in order that right this moment ladies can carry weapons. So, the work they did in these years has been very important for our society,” she confessed.
Talking from this feminist perspective, which is impregnated in all of the episodes of Girls in Blue, like we are able to see in its trailer, Fernando Rovzar informed us the way it felt for him to replicate this feminine perspective and the way he labored to make it as correct as doable, along with every part he discovered from the expertise.
Rovzar admits that he discovered loads and is grateful for “the chance to have been on this challenge as a result of, regardless of having a mom who works and takes care of youngsters on the similar time — very very like Maria —, having a spouse in the identical scenario, and having two fantastic teenage daughters who’re attending to know the world of maturity, for the primary time I felt that writing wanted numerous that perspective to be taught, to have the ability to be open and to contribute to the plot, but additionally to have the ability to pay attention. And we had two phenomenal writers on this sequence. Wendy Rice, who’s considered one of them, is an incredible American author who labored on an enormous sequence in the US and fell in love with Girls in Blue. And in addition Sylvia Jiménez, an unbelievable Spanish author who lives in Mexico, with whom I used to be additionally within the writers’ room. And so I believe that what we lastly achieved was a perspective the place collectively we understood that the sequence is just not solely concerning the system that has conditioned ladies to reside a sure actuality however that very same system additionally conditioned males to reside a sure actuality.”
“Males are additionally repeating patterns that have been taught to them by their father, by their grandfather, by society. And we notice that not solely the 4 Girls in Blue, however all of the characters within the sequence have a chance to have a look at themselves and resolve in the event that they wish to be who they actually wish to be in life or in the event that they wish to proceed being what society dictates. So I believe that the attractive factor is that all of us achieved a sure empathy for all of the characters and tried to present them that chance to alter. The change that the ladies suggest, because the sequence clearly exhibits, has a type of domino impact on their private lives. Brothers change, dad and mom change, husbands change, kids change. As a result of it’s not solely the change of 4 ladies, ladies are the primary domino and the remainder of the world feels the impact of that,” he ended.
Talking with Bárbara Mori and Fernando Rovzar concerning the final scene that we see in Girls in Blue, which left us fairly intrigued and considering that the story might proceed in a second season, each of them gave us their impressions and confessed some behind-the-scenes secrets and techniques.
Mori feedback that the ending “is open as a result of something can occur.” As well as, she tells us how the filming of the scene was. “We spent the entire morning filming the scene. And simply 5 minutes earlier than the final take, when Goyo stood up and left, it was a sunny day, with the birds singing, and abruptly we did that final take the place the rain began to fall. And it was very thrilling as a result of it was nearly like a message from heaven as if stating that the story didn’t finish there and in addition all of the hazard that Maria was in at that second. In different phrases, there have been so many messages inside that occasion that it was very emotional for everybody.”
Rovzar agrees and mentions that “it was wonderful.” He additionally shares that “in the true story, in that interval from 1970 to 1976, there was a Mexican serial killer named Gregorio Cárdenas who killed 4 ladies within the late 40s and was locked up in Lecumberri for greater than 30 years. President Luis Echeverría was the one who launched and forgave him. And never solely did he launch him, he invited him to the Senate to present a speech about second probabilities and this exhibits us an necessary factor about Girls in Blue, which is that the very program geared toward making a workforce of feminine cops was a approach to distract folks. It was initially a program with no intention of advancing the wrestle of girls, however with the complete intention of constructing folks really feel that the police have been reliable and releasing this assassin of 4 ladies with none cause, merely to have the ability to inform yet one more story of how Mexico was on the suitable path, was one thing that shook the nation.”
“So, taking that inspiration, we notice that Maria additionally has to know that every one actions have penalties. And while you play in a system as deceitful because the Mexican political system of that point, it’s important to perceive that something you do can be utilized in opposition to you. For me, the ending of having the ability to free Goyo and his having this concept of ‘I’m mild or I’m darkness,’ on the finish of the day is slightly nod to the individuals who just like the present and, if sufficient folks watch it, then we will definitely be able to do a second season,” he identified.
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With tales of feminine empowerment and deep characters like these in Girls in Blue, Mori and Rovzar are leaving a mark on the leisure business, proving that girls’s narratives, informed with honesty and braveness, can and ought to be the focal point. Hopefully, they get the prospect to return again for a season 2!
Girls in Blue is accessible to stream on Apple TV+.