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Luis Fernández Starring in the Spanish-Serbian Thriller Series “Scar”

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Luis Fernández is revealing his scar…

The 38-year-old Spanish actor is starring in the Asacha Media-backed Spanish-Serbian thriller series Scar (Cicatriz) has taken shape.

Luis FernándezFernandez stars alongside Milena Radulovic and Juanlu González in the scripted series, with Stefan Kapicic, Mladen Sovilj, Goran Susljik and Julen Serrano also attached.

Cameras are already rolling in Spain on the European co-production from Plano a Plano, Dopamine and Adrenalin.

Scar is billed as follows: “An enigmatic woman with a mysterious scar across her face, Irina (Radulovic) has lived with the emotional scars of tragedy since she was a young child and ever since, has been intent on exacting revenge.”

Fernández is known for roles in Antena 3 fantasy series Los Protegidos, and other shows such as A Tres Metros Sobre el Cielo, Desaparecidos and Servir y Proteger.

Radulovic is known for Serbian-British drama series Besa and Russian thriller Superdeep, while González starred in Netflix’s Valeria and the popular Spanish TV crime series La Caza, La Otra Mirada and features including Operación Camarón.

González will play a gifted IT specialist with no social skills who meets Irina through a dating app and falls head over heels in love with her, drawing him into her dangerous and complex world.

Fernández will play his best friend and business partner, a charismatic and frivolous extrovert who acts as his connection to the real world.

Growing European production group Asacha Media brought about the co-production between Spanish-language producers Plano a Plano and Dopamine and Serbia’s Adrenalin. The series was made in association with Spanish pubcaster RTVE, Prime Video Spain and Telekom Srbija.

Filming has begun in Bilbao, with Miguel Ángel Vivas, Manuel Carballo and Alejandro Bazzano directing. Fernando Sancristóbal, Pablo Roa and Verónica Marza are the writers.

Orozco Starring in Sony Pictures Television’s Crime Drama “Anonima”

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Veronica Orozco is going anonymous…

The 35-year-old Colombian actress has landed the lead role opposite Ramiro Rocha in Sony Pictures Television’s Anonima, a drama about a mother and son forced to assume a criminal lifestyle in order to survive.

Veronica Orozco

The 70-episode series, which has begun production, will air on Colombian network RCN later this year.

Other recent Sony series filmed in Colombia include the narco drama En la Boca del Lobo and Metastasis, the Spanish-language version of Breaking Bad. Sony also produces in Mexico, where it’s currently producing the original series Senorita Polvora, starring Camila Sodi.

Anonima is shooting on location in Bogota.

Orozco’s credits include the film A Ton of Luck and the television programs Los Protegidos and A Corazón Abierto.

Iglesias to Star in Gonzalo Bendala’s Upcoming Spanish Thriller “Innocent Killers”

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Maxi Iglesias has landed a killer role…

The 23-year-old actor, one of Spain’s rising sex symbols, has joined the cast of Gonzalo Bendala’s upcoming thriller Innocent Killers, alongside Aura Garrido and Luis Fernandez.

Maxi Iglesias

The suspense drama, produced by Aralan, is scheduled to shoot at the end of the month, with backing from pubcaster Television Espanola, the film institute ICAA and regional broadcaster Canal Sur.

Bendala’s directorial debut is Aralan’s follow-up to Patricia Ferreira’s The Wild Children, which won best film and best screenplay at 2012’s 15th Malaga Spanish Film Festival.

Iglesias and Fernandez have both become pop idols in their native land where their television characters on Los Protegidos propelled them to fame. More recently they have starred together in Sony‘s thriller XP3D.

Garrido is a rising star in Spain, following her film debut in Oriol Paulo’s The Body. Audiences can see her in theaters in Spain now in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Stockholm.

“A suspenser, echoing elements of Hitchcock,” according to Aralan CEO Marta Velasco, “Killers tells of a university student (Iglesias) who receives an job offer to kill his psychology teacher (Miguel Sola).The twist is that the offer comes from the psychology teacher.”

Producers said the story is inspired by a series of strange and unsuccessful attempts on the life of New York’s Michael Malloy, an ex-firefighter and legendary alcoholic in the 1920 in New York.