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The Spanish national broadcaster TVE has started this week the filming of their new historical TV series about the life of Charles, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Castile and Aragon, called Carlos, Rey Emperador.
The series comes as a sequel of their very sucessful and multi awarded Isabel (thread), about the life of Queen Isabella I of Castile, Charles' grandmother, and will have an only season with 18 episodes, to be aired on September 2015.
From the same writers as Isabel, and with the same directors, producers and crew, the series will have a new promising cast featuring some 'big' names of the Spanish acting scene such as Juanjo Puigcorbé, Laia Marull and Nathalie Poza, and Álvaro Cervantes and Blanca Suárez on the leading roles of Charles and his wife Isabella of Portugal.
From TVE:
Álvaro Cervantes - Charles of Habsburg
Blanca Suárez - Isabella of Portugal, Charles' wife
Marina Salas - Eleanor of Habsburg, Charles' sister
Laia Marull - Joanna I, Queen of Castile, Charles' mother
Nathalie Poza - Germaine of Foix, Dowager Queen of Aragon
Helio Pedregal - Willem of Croy
Félix Gómez - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
Alfonso Bassabé - Francis I, King of France
Susi Sánchez - Louise of Savoy, King Francis' mother
José Luis García-Pérez - Hernán Cortés
Eusebio Poncela - Cardinal Francisco de Cisneros, regent of Castile (only member of Isabel's cast in the new series)
Francesc Orella - Adrian of Utrecht
Juanjo Puigcorbé - Mercurino Arborio di Gattinara
Alex Brendemühl - Henry VIII, King of England
Article from TVE: https://translate.google.com/transl...ey-emperador/1091562.shtml&edit-text=&act=url
Article with interviews to some members of the cast: https://translate.google.com/transl...ro-cervantes/1091660.shtml&edit-text=&act=url
And photos from the set:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B81Lvp2CAAEPLBp.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B81NVGsCcAA2DnK.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B81NX6MCIAABS8W.jpg
Seems like TVE wants to repeat the success of Isabel. This one looks even more ambitious, albeit shorter.
We'll see what it's like. I'm pleased with the cast so far, just have my reservations about Blanca Suárez that is not my favourite actress by any account and happen to play one of my favourite queens of Spain's History, the lovelly Isabella.
The series comes as a sequel of their very sucessful and multi awarded Isabel (thread), about the life of Queen Isabella I of Castile, Charles' grandmother, and will have an only season with 18 episodes, to be aired on September 2015.
From the same writers as Isabel, and with the same directors, producers and crew, the series will have a new promising cast featuring some 'big' names of the Spanish acting scene such as Juanjo Puigcorbé, Laia Marull and Nathalie Poza, and Álvaro Cervantes and Blanca Suárez on the leading roles of Charles and his wife Isabella of Portugal.
From TVE:
Main cast:TVE started filming their new commitment of historical fiction: Carlos, Rey Emperador. A careful production starring Álvaro Cervantes and Blanca Suárez that tells the story of one of the most powerful men Europe has ever known, governor of an empire of such extrordinary proportions as its diversity. Made in collaboration with Diagonal TV, over 100 historical characters will go through the series. The first sequences that have already been shot take place in Tordesillas, where a young Charles comes with his sister, Eleanor, to see their mother, Queen Joanna, confined there.
Through the History of Charles of Habsburg since his arrival in Spain, viewers will discover how the heir of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgundy, the Netherlands, Franche-Compte, Artois, Nevers and Rethels, the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its Italian linked possessions and the Castilian, North-African and American territories of the Catholic Monarchy grows as statesman and how is stregthened to respond to the threads that surround him with his and his advissors' successes and fails.
Álvaro Cervantes - Charles of Habsburg
Blanca Suárez - Isabella of Portugal, Charles' wife
Marina Salas - Eleanor of Habsburg, Charles' sister
Laia Marull - Joanna I, Queen of Castile, Charles' mother
Nathalie Poza - Germaine of Foix, Dowager Queen of Aragon
Helio Pedregal - Willem of Croy
Félix Gómez - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
Alfonso Bassabé - Francis I, King of France
Susi Sánchez - Louise of Savoy, King Francis' mother
José Luis García-Pérez - Hernán Cortés
Eusebio Poncela - Cardinal Francisco de Cisneros, regent of Castile (only member of Isabel's cast in the new series)
Francesc Orella - Adrian of Utrecht
Juanjo Puigcorbé - Mercurino Arborio di Gattinara
Alex Brendemühl - Henry VIII, King of England
Article from TVE: https://translate.google.com/transl...ey-emperador/1091562.shtml&edit-text=&act=url
Article with interviews to some members of the cast: https://translate.google.com/transl...ro-cervantes/1091660.shtml&edit-text=&act=url
And photos from the set:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B81Lvp2CAAEPLBp.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B81NVGsCcAA2DnK.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B81NX6MCIAABS8W.jpg
Seems like TVE wants to repeat the success of Isabel. This one looks even more ambitious, albeit shorter.
We'll see what it's like. I'm pleased with the cast so far, just have my reservations about Blanca Suárez that is not my favourite actress by any account and happen to play one of my favourite queens of Spain's History, the lovelly Isabella.
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