The actor stars alongside Aura Garrido in the fiction ‘A Private Matter’, available on Prime Video
With correct Castilian Spanish with a French touch, actor Jean Reno (Casablanca, Morocco, 74 years old) makes his debut in Spanish fiction with ‘A Private Matter’, the new series now available in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video, produced in collaboration with Bambú Producciones , in which he gets into the skin of a nice butler who will accompany the young Marina (played by the actress Aura Garrido) on the way to become a police officer in a time, the Franco regime, where the woman was assigned to the work of the home. “He is a man who is part of the family. The basis is that he protects Marina because he considers her her daughter », describes the actor about her character, the helpful and cunning Héctor.
The action takes place in Galicia in 1948 and starts with a crime that reveals the existence of a serial killer who has been stalking the city for months. From a police family, Marina sets out to find the man who is terrorizing her neighbors. She is a high-class young woman who is not satisfied with the life of luxury to which she is destined. «It is a very interesting because in the year of the series, women could not be police officers. He knows that Marina’s passion is to investigate and he is going to get behind her out of love, because he is like a little daughter for Héctor and he is going to think of himself as an adventurer”, says Reno.
Because the character who Reno plays in the new Prime Video bet is a discreet and generous man, sometimes stubborn, but whose sensitivity and audacity always place him at the key point of the investigation. He, together with Marina, will fight against all obstacles to hunt down the serial killer, among which are the gender prejudices of the time or the resistance of the new commissioner to make things easy. The insistence of Marina’s mother, played by veteran Ángela Molina, for marrying her daughter to a full-fledged man, will also be mixed. But, to everyone’s surprise, the detective couple works. The cast of this eight-episode production is completed by Alex García (‘Times of war’, ‘Anti-riot’), Gorka Otxoa (‘Velvet’), Tito Valverde (‘Matadero’), Irene Montalá (‘El barco’), Pablo Molinero (‘La peste’) and Andrés Velencoso (‘Velvet Collection’, ‘Edha’), among others.
comic vis
Accustomed to seeing a Reno with characters that are more bitter than sweet in his films, the actor shows in ‘A Private Affair’ a charismatic butler whose particular innocence stands out intermingled with an interesting comic aspect. In the final season of “Who Killed Sara”?, a Mexican Netflix fiction, he was a psychiatrist who killed half the city. However, Reno defends that he never identifies with any of the roles he has given life to in his extensive professional career. “I’ve done over a hundred movies and you can’t have a hundred personalities. The key word of my trade is to interpret. Having a story and interpreting it, together with the rest of the team, technicians and other actors and actresses », he explains.
With ‘A private matter’, in addition, he debuts in a fiction filmed in Spain and with which he has known a part of the country that he did not know. «I discovered Galicia. That was charming and extraordinary. We stayed filming for at least three months and time passed in a formidable way, as if it had lasted a week. Vigo is a surprising city and it eats very well », indicates Reno, who has Spanish ancestry, because his parents came from the province of Cádiz and went into exile in North Africa, where he was born. For this reason, Reno reveals, that the language has not been a problem in this project. «I started with Spanish and little by little. I have arrived this morning from the United States and so I have a day or two left to start using the Spanish language more easily. In any case, he is a character who comes from France, so he may have difficulties with Spanish », he underlines.