I can’t judge the character because, obviously, I have to interpret him in the best way and accompany him on his journey. I looked for certain subtleties to humanize him so that people would feel empathy for him amid the significant pain he has gone through while also carrying out this grand mission. Do you consider Alex to be a vigilante hero?
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This series challenges the idea of justice, and how you get it. In the second season, there’s an interesting turn because Álex finds out things he didn’t know before, information he didn’t have in the first season, and it is going to alter quite a bit what he thought his motivations were and how he is going to start re-entering society. We first meet Álex when he is preoccupied with finding out what happened to Sara and detaching himself from the Lazcano family. But, after what happens to his sister and the aftermath, he has this whole personality change and practically becomes another person. How, if at all, has your perception of Alex changed from Season 1 to Season 2?Īs a young man, Álex is charismatic, good-natured, innocent and has a good vibe. As far as computing, I had some prior knowledge, but I studied certain sequences and algorithms and topics like hacking for many months, to make it as current and as believable as possible. So, I had to train for many months to get in peak fitness shape. I also had to do a lot of physical work because Álex Guzmán is a personal gym trainer, that is how he meets Rodolfo. I spoke to many psychiatrists and psychologists regarding certain mental illnesses and disorders that transpire in some people who have been in prison for many years that have been accused of something that they did not commit.
I was able to chat with people who had those kinds of experiences - who had convictions that had gone in their favor and those who had been wrongfully convicted. The work I put into the character was done over several small stages, and it involved researching and mostly talking. Did you have to learn any computer skills for the job of playing your character? How about action sequences? José Ignacio Valenzuela is incredible at writing multidimensional characters who go through dramatic mood shifts along the way of finding out what happened to Sara. I think that is what makes the dramatic arc of the character compelling. I found him to be a fascinating and multi-faceted character - and many of those facets evolve or come forth over different stages of his life in the show.
And it's true, the show is not based on any specific voyage or real life murder case.What did you think of your character and how he handles grief when you first read the script? It's a wild premise that seems like it would be more at home in The Twilight Zone or an Agatha Christie novel than in the real world. A woman is murdered, but there's a twist: her name does not appear on the passenger list, and no one on the ship remembers her. Niera, High Seas is set aboard a 1940s transatlantic luxury liner traveling from Spain to Brazil. High Seas (aka Alta Mar) is Netflix's fourth original Spanish language project from Bambú Producciones, the studio behind several other lavishly decorated shows like Cable Girls, Velvet, and Grand Hotel. While High Seas is not based on a true story, the production has some historical inspirations that may give viewers some insight into where the story is going.
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Who can resist a story about a group of strangers isolated in the middle of a vast ocean, forced to figure out if there is a murderer in their midst? Netflix's High Seas is one such tale, described by Netflix as full of "love, intrigues, and many lies". Murder mysteries set aboard a ship have captivated audiences for as long as humans have been traveling the seas.