The eldest daughter of the most universal chipionera claims that she has been a «skin issue» he hard and fascinating work that has been carried out, hand in hand, with the aforementioned platform, the production company Tesseo Productions and the director of the docuseries, Alexis Morante.

Rocío Carrasco is happy and very excited before the premiere of this docuseries. THE SPANISH has been able to chat exclusively with the universal heir of the artist, hours before the broadcast of The biggest. Rocío doesn’t want to know anything about wars, and she laughs them off.

He finds humor and open laughter when he sees the awkward, sharp question coming; That’s what it’s like to always know you’re immersed in the fray, sometimes originated by others.

The latest controversy? The autobiography that Rocío Jurado wrote years ago, and that today serves as the guiding thread of the docuseries The biggest. Rocío’s sister, Gloria Camila Ortega (30), has focused on that writing, and in what could affect it.

Rocío, on the other hand, does not see the controversy, especially considering that this handwritten volume of the Jurado, written in her own handwriting, addresses her life from the birth of the star until she meets and marries her first husband, Pedro Carrasco.

That is the time period that those lines cover. They have nothing to do, therefore, with the stage of the arrival of Rocío Carrasco’s brothers into the life of the interpreter of That man.

On the other hand, it is also made clear to EL ESPAÑOL that, in preparation for the recording of this documentary series, some relatives of Rocío Jurado -his brothers and his widower, Ortega Cano-, and these they declined to participate.

Next, this media chats with Rocío Carrasco.

Dew, How did you come about making this docuseries?

This project has been around for many years, and we had in mind to make the documentary. The thing is that we had not found the timely teamand give me feeling. It’s a matter of skin to put a story like that in someone’s hands.

It has been now that it has coincided with the 20th anniversary of his deathbut it was a coincidence. Marta MazanoApart from being the CEO of Tesseo Producciones, she is a personal friend. with her, with Movistar Plus and with Alexis Morantewe have made the perfect team, in the end.

It is important to put yourself in trusted hands…

There has been a lot of trust and feelingwhich is essential. For everything, but even more so for this type of things and events.

That biography has brought some controversy, that unpublished writing of your mother’s life that you found. Her life told by herself. How was it?

I’m going to put a sign here on my chest that says ‘I found it‘! (Laughs) Let’s see, I’ll tell you. My father died and, by reason or by reason, and for things that are already known, I do not have all the photographs that I would have liked of him, because they are not given to me.

And one day I came to my mother’s house and then she told me: ‘What’s the matter?’. I was a little sad. ‘Well, nothing, mom, this has happened to me.’ ‘Oh, don’t worry.’ So, a week or two goes by, I don’t know, in that time.

When I arrive at his house another day, he has a about prepared and tells me: ‘Take, Ro, photographs of your father, of your father with me, and something so that when you are well and you feel like it and you want, read and know who your father and mother are‘.

And you keep it safe.

At that time I was more bad than good, not to say very bad. I get home, I put the envelope in a closet. The envelope stays there. My life is going on as you know.

When my mother dies and I take some boxes home, since she had her boxes there, I say: ‘Oh, this envelope that she gave me, I’m going to put it in your thingsso that I could determine what each thing was.

And then I opened the envelope, emptied what was inside the box, without even taking into account what was there.

And now recently, looking for photographs for the documentary of my father and my mother, I began to empty the box to see those photographs, and I found the biography. And I’m aware of what it is at that moment.

I open it, clean the lid, because I thought it was dirty, and it wasn’t dirty.

I was old, it was yellowed from time. And when I open it, I’m like, ‘Holy shit, this is it.’

Her life told by herself since she was born, going through his trip to Madrid, until she meets and marries her father, Pedro Carrasco.

Of course, told by her. And also at that moment Alexis -director of the documentary series- was trying to figure out how we would tell the story, right? How could we do the narrative plot for that to be counted. And finally, we come to the biography.

I understand that condensing such an intense life into four chapters requires doing bobbin lace., No?

You have to do magic, yes.

(Alexis Morante, director of The Greatest, speaks): With magic and patience. Well, I think that a character like that is beyond reach, but we have to build a team and make the pieces fit. The pieces are there.

In a documentary like this, I like to make a audiovisual archeology with a magnificent documentation team that we had, with the help of his own daughter, who is giving us things. And suddenly something appears that is goldwhich is the autobiography.

(Keep talking Alexis): I am a big fan of people not telling things, that there are no talking headsI was clear that I wanted to make an immersive narrative with the archives.

The icing on the cake was telling the story through Daniela Vega, who is a wonderful Chilean actress. A narrator who tells us the story of Rocío Jurado as if it were a fable.

Dew, with so much audiovisual material that has been discovered, Is there anything that surprised you about your mother?, that you didn’t know?

No not at all. I knew my mother perfectly. There have been no things that have surprised me because I didn’t know them. I have always said it, that there are things that are told and that are in the collective imagination in a way that is real, but that a part was missing.

And within that biography appears that part that was missing. So, maybe that did surprise me because it has completed a story for me. But nothing that has to do with her in feeling; I know that well.

Rocío Jurado was a woman who worked as a donkey, lot. So much so that she fell ill at different times due to that frenetic pace.. Yes indeed, He never neglected the family and neither did he neglect love.. for her, family was the most important thing.

Yes, I have always said that. For her the most important thing was her profession, but she always wanted to have her home, have your family. When I say family I mean her husband and her daughter, to its innermost core. I have never missed the figure of my mother.

In other words, I believe that she achieved this conciliation perfectly, because She knew that I was covered both emotionally and sentimentally.like materially everything. And I wasn’t going to miss anything.

When she went to work I stayed with one of the most important people in my life, who was my father and my uncle. Juan de la Rosa. So in the end she was calm.

My mother stayed sleepless in the United States waiting for the time change, for me to get up at 8 in the morning to go to school. Then he would pick up the phone and say, ‘What? Shall we go to school now?’ It was a mother. It didn’t matter where I was, but my mother was there.

Rocío had a first love, Enrique García Vernetta. A story that ended because she said ‘Enough‘ when he put off getting married.

He would have had to give up certain things because she asked him to marry her. So he ignored her in that sense. He was dragging his feet. And then the other one stood up and said: ‘Look, handsome, if we don’t get married on that date, I’m leaving here and flying.’ He didn’t get married, well it flew.

In the second chapter, Rocío speaks, with great pain, of an abortion she suffered while with Pedro Carrasco. Did he confess it to you?

Let’s see, I have had a thousand conversations with my mother, but At that time I was very small. So, at that moment they don’t tell you: ‘I have lost a baby‘.

What happens is that it is true that when you grow up and you have conversations with her, she tells you this, that, he is telling you.

Let’s talk a little about your father, Pedro Carrasco. He has a great role in this documentary, how could it not be otherwise. What was he like?

He was someone wonderful. He was endearing, he was good people. I don’t know anyone who has said a bad word about him or a bad gesture to me. was someone very specialvery special.

Have there been any red lines in this documentary series? Anything you’ve agreed not to touch or address?

With reference to his life, no. Not at all. It wouldn’t be fair for the viewer. Nothing can or should be omitted.

(The director of the docuseries, Alexis, speaks again): That can’t be done. I think that these types of documentaries, when approached from a more cinematic perspective, the red lines must be left aside. You have to talk a lot beforehand. You have to talk a lot with the family.

So that they trust in what is being done, everyone knows what is being done and from there there is no red line, because if not, they restrict your creativity and that’s not good for the art we’re making, what is cinema.

So, I think they have been generous there. It is a very honest documentary and very true.

Your parents must be very proud of you with this documentary…

Yes, well, from me, yes. But I think that in the end they have to be proud of themselves too. Because if we are here and we can capture what they were or what they are, because for me they still areIn the end it is because of his career in life, both personal and professional.

To finish, Rocio Carrasco, How are you feeling?

I’m good. I’m good, I’m happy. I am very satisfied with what we have managed to do. Very proud of the entire team we have formed. I’m very well, I can’t tell you anything else. Thank God.