Jose Coronado: "Television is a 27-headed monster" - ABC.es

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After a successful year in film, Jose Coronado returns to the small screen with a new series of Telecinco ‘The Prince’ , which will start shooting in the coming days. The actor Madrid got back into the skin of a corrupt cop working in the troubled neighborhood of Prince Alfonso Ceuta, which gives its name to the series and inspires the plot. Love, action, drama and detective genre elements will join in the new project of Madrid, recently recognized with the award Málaga South for his career.

“Television is a 27-headed monster where you have to save your life as you can,” says the actor. The same number of years that sum and in his long career during which he has done almost everything: “When I said that if you did you could not do theater film, television and if you did you could not spend the movies. I think we should do everything to keep forjándote long-term career and television is essential to reach the public. ” And so far it works the formula, because in the last year has shot six films.

The actor confesses that he chose this role “because it is an amazing story and at the cutting edge,” and does not care at all typecast in certain roles: “If within three years tell me they have the role Grandfather, because grandfather. What I want is work. ” Coronado is not alone in his return. He is joined in the series Alex Gonzalez , who plays Morey, an undercover agent CNI seeking jihadist networks in Spain, and Abouk Hiba, Fatima plays a Moroccan teacher and sister of a drug dealer. They star in the main love story in which culture, origin and social status are the barriers that prevent them from being together.

Special Effects

The novelty of “The Prince” comes on the heels of a resource that is not used much in the Spanish series: the visual effects. For the first time in a European production virtual recreation will be used to bring the streets of Ceuta to a set in Madrid, where he recorded all outdoors.

To do this, the series has the support of the international company Stargate, who has worked for shows like “The Walking Dead” or “CSI”. “The biggest challenge we faced was to play the Prince neighborhood without having to move there permanently. We managed to make a production that will surprise and like a lot “, says Cesar Benitez, one of the executive producers.

The result, on television screens in early 2014.