One of the biggest reasons why Netflix is so popular in our country is undoubtedly La Casa de Papel. The series, which won the appreciation of the audience with both its story and its cast, and which made the platform laugh a lot in terms of viewing numbers, appeared in front of the audience for the last time with its final season in recent years.
But did you know that there are many little-known details about La Casa de Papel, which includes quality players such as Alvaro Morte, Ursula Corbero, Itziar Ituno and Pedro Alonso? We have compiled these details for you that will make the series even more valuable and maybe cause you to start over.
Little known details about La Casa de Papel
10 interesting details about La Casa de Papel, which has locked the audience in front of the screen with the concept of robbery, has a huge fan base all over the world and has managed to get its name written among the legendary productions…
La Casa de Papel was actually a series that had a finale.
Although most people think of La Casa de Papel as Netflix original content, the series was originally broadcast on Spain’s Antena 3 television channel. The series, which started broadcasting in May 2017, has even caught 4.5 million views in its pilot episode. However, things did not go well in the following episodes and there was an incredible decrease in the number of viewers.
After the failures, the production team gave up on making the second season of the series. In fact, actors such as Alba Flores and Alvaro Morte, who were leading roles at that time, even published a farewell message. However, later believing in this project, Netflix bought the worldwide digital broadcasting rights of the failed series.
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The platform significantly increased the budget of the series and ordered new episodes. After that, we all know. La Casa De Papel managed to get its name written among legendary productions with Netflix.
Has the title of most-watched Netflix content in six countries
Netflix took a big risk and invested in the series, but it quickly reaped the rewards. La Casa De Papel, which has become popular all over the world, including our country, has managed to become the most watched Netflix content in France, Italy, Chile, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina.
In the beginning the name was different
Producer Alex Pina decided on the name “Los Desahuciados”, meaning the excluded, because the characters in the series were people who could not find a place in social life. However, after the perfect idea to rob the Spanish Royal Mint during the preparation stage, the name of the series was changed to La Casa de Papel.
However, Netflix, which bought the series and targeted international audiences, later added the name “Money Heist” to the production. The series is currently appearing in front of the audience with the names La Casa de Papel and Money Heist in different markets.
The producers asked the actors who auditioned for the role of Denver to laugh
Denver’s interesting smile, which was almost integrated with the series, was actually a part of the script. In fact, the production team asked the actors who auditioned for this part, which they described as ridiculous laughter in the script, to laugh ridiculously. Upon this, Jaime Lorente, who came to the audition, managed to get the role of Denver with both his acting and interesting smile.
All gang members would have a terminal illness
As it will be remembered, the Professor had chosen the gang members according to their abilities. However, the plan that the producers wanted to implement in the first place was that all gang members should be terminally ill. Therefore, the gang members would have nothing to lose and would concentrate completely on the robbery.
However, later thinking that this would have a negative impact on the audience, the production team changed their plans completely, except for the Berlin character. Thereupon, Berlin appeared as a character with nothing to lose.
The scripts of the series were written during filming.
In a normal drama, the writers write the scripts long before filming and ask the actors to work on them. However, the same is not true for La Casa de Papel. Because the writers of the series wrote the scripts instantly during the shooting. Considering the ingenious plans of the Professor and all his moves in which he almost turned the Spanish police into a wrong corner, the writers of the series should definitely be congratulated.
Interesting reason why characters are named cities
The entire gang has nicknames set by the Professor. The main purpose of this is to prevent the real identities of the gang from being revealed during the robbery. So, where did the producers think of choosing cities as nicknames?
Actually, this idea, which is a big coincidence, came to producer Alex Pina’s mind as a result of one of his team wearing a Tokyo T-shirt at a meeting he held. While the first city name to be determined was Tokyo, names such as Berlin, Moscow, Denver and Rio emerged soon after.
Famous football player Neymar also took part in the series.
With the rapid popularity of the series all over the world, many famous names took part in the series. Undoubtedly, one of them is the famous football player Neymar da Silva, who wears the PSG jersey. The football player appeared before the audience, albeit for a short time, as a monk in the third episode of the second season.
There were serious problems in the shooting of two scenes.
The production team had serious trouble shooting the two scenes. The first of these was the scene where the Professor rains money on people with an airship over the city of Madrid. This scene was shot many times due to the changing weather conditions, and each time hundreds of money-looking papers were rained down on the streets of Madrid.
The second was the scene where Denver scuba dived into the water-filled vault. Here the production team built the same vault in the bank inside a special shooting tank in the UK. In addition, the gold bullion we saw in the safe was also made of foam. Later, although these foams were immersed in water, they began to float in water due to their structure.
The production team decided to fix the foams in place after the foams floated in the water. However, this time, the structure of the foams deteriorated due to the pressure. However, as viewers, we did not see these distortions thanks to computer effects.
Did you know that the Professor has another nickname?
Did you know that Sergio Marquina, who chose Professor as his name, has another nickname? Although he does not appear in the series, Marquina, who also uses the name “Vatican”, says that this name is unique like Professor and has great power all over the world.