Luxury casting to say goodbye to the year on RTVE. Yesterday, December 31, the public entity once again put the finishing touch on a year that ends with the traditional summary prepared by a team of professionals from its News News, headed by the network’s journalist Carlos del Amor.
The special format with the highlights of 2024 has been more ambitious than ever to say goodbye to a very informative year. Del Amor and his colleagues have brought together several of the most relevant names in culture, all ‘aspiring’ for a casting to be in 2024 and following in the wake of other great Spanish actors such as or , who have already given voice to past summaries.
The casting, which included, among others, the actors Eduard Fernández, Bárbara Lennie, Vicky Luengo, Juan Echanove and María Galiana, had .
The fiction begins with some of the candidates for 2024 getting ready to go to the appointment, while it plays on the radio My big night, by Raphael, and Joan Manuel Serrat and Iñaki Gabilondo appear on stage to give them the latest advice. Next, at the entrance to the casting, Daniel Guzmán is left at the doors due to a logistical problem that prevents him from joining the rest of the cast. Inside, in their seats, more familiar faces wait to be called, such as the badminton player Carolina Marín or the actors Antonio de la Torre, Pablo Pineda and Aitana Sánchez Gijón. Little by little, everyone hears his name and his audition begins.
It begins with Antonio de la Torre from Malaga, who confesses that he approached the 2024 role through comedy, only to realize later how difficult that is given the circumstances.
| First candidate: Antonio de la Torre. He wanted to approach the role of ‘2024’ from a comedy perspective, but he has realized that it is impossible: “There is almost no room for grace when taking stock of the year he has lived.”
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In Carlos del Amor’s summary, the tragedy of the Dana is not left for last. It is the actor and 2024 contender Eduard Fernández who takes on the most exciting and complex part of narrating, which has undoubtedly been the hardest news of the year in Spain.
| Eduard Fernández also wants to be ‘2024’, “a bad year, which ends in the worst possible way. “On October 29, when the sky fell on Valencia and turned everything into hell.”
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Fernández gives way to María Galiana, who addresses the dangers of climate change and denialism in her casting and ends her intervention with a plea against ageism (discrimination based on age): “I’m not worried about you, I’m worried about those who come.” later,” says the wisest and most experienced candidate.
They are followed, among others, by the auditions of Juan Echanove, who asks for “less war and more poetry”; from the always combative Victoria Luengo, warning against misinformation and hoaxes and waving her keys to focus on the housing problem in Spain; or Hovik Keuchkerian, a great actor who approaches his audition from small stories because, as he says, “the small often goes unnoticed.”
In short, a necessary and complete summary (that of TVE), also with the space demanded by the emotion of remembering those who in 2024 said goodbye forever, like Marisa Paredes, who died in December and whom Almodóvar himself remembers in this way in the casting : “With her death Marisa immortalizes the films we have made together”:
And in the end, so many important news, so much talent to say goodbye to the year, that the director from La Mancha finds himself unable to choose a single candidate for 2024 and opts for the wild card of the call, the advice of previous years among which is heard to Lola Herrera (the voice of 2023), sentence: “Let everyone replace me.”
