“El Cover”, a Spanish film dedicated to Amy Winehouse.

“The entire film is sung live”

This was one of the essential conditions of the film. Secun de la Rosa is a man of theatre, live performances and musicals, and he wanted the music of his film to sound the same. The actor and director worked on many musicals and directed performers Today I can’t get up and musical 40s. In addition, he wanted the supporting characters to be authentic, so he chose actors and performers who usually perform in Benidorm. This is the case Jorge Calvo (who plays Liza Minnelli), who has her own show. “These are fighters who have to do everything for 40 euros.“, he said in an interview with RNE.

own Alex Monner had to interpret and learn to play songs he didn’t know.. In the case of Carolina Yuste, she really liked to give life Amy Winehouse, whom she looks incredibly similar to in the filmand whom I greatly admired. In addition, the actress who received the Goya Award for Carmen and Lolahas been saying for some time that he really wanted to play in a musical and show how well he can sing. Something that he will also demonstrate in the film Know This, where he gave life to the Catalan artist Conchita, wife of the popular comedian Eugenio.

Shirley’s versions received the artist’s approval.

Topics Rod Stewart, The Killers, Nena Daconte or Mocedadesbut Secun de la Rosa, in addition to the most popular artists usually imitated in these night bars, was looking for a profile that would be widely publicized, but in England. “Lola Flores is for the English,” he said. That’s what he thought Shirley Bassey

from which the famous theme is usually interpreted Goldfinger. To deviate from expectations, Sekun wanted the song to be less known. Yesterday when I was young. To get the rights, the director plucked up courage and decided to try to find her. Through his representative and after talking to several people, he managed to send the translated script. Shirley liked the idea so much that she even offered to compose an original theme for the film.

Most exciting scene

Of the entire film, the director has a special passion for one of the final scenes, an episode showing one of the musical duels from the cover of El. They repeated the shot three times, but the first one was so special that they didn’t hesitate to keep it. After finishing filming, Secun de la Rosa was very excited to see that about 200 people from the team present there were also delighted. The same scene was recorded again a cappella, all in unison, and included in album and vinyl which they also released with the soundtrack which includes versions performed by the film’s actors.

Where to watch the film El Cover

movie CoverSecun de la Rosa, You can watch it right now for free on RTVE Play.. The film, starring Marina Salas, Alex Monner and Carolina Yuste, joins the extensive catalog of Spanish films offered by the platform, where you can also watch recently added films such as Objects, Suro, Pig, Blind sunflowers…And also wonderful international films such as Bad Streets, 65 Close

or November plot.