‘Sin huellas’ is a series for you to look the kellys in the eye (and that flees from ‘Sky Rojo’)

For a few days the series can be seen on Amazon Prime Video ‘no footprints’, his latest bet made from Spain and with a very Mediterranean flavor. His story is two ‘kellys’, two hotel and office cleaners, who lose their job and agree to clean the house of a mysterious client. What seemed like a stroke of luck, a job to recover some money, turns into the beginning of a nightmare: they find a body and, since then, they have the mafia hot on their heels for a bag of money that they have accidentally taken. . They are Desi and Cata. Or what is the same, Carolina Yuste and Camila Sodi, who have told us what this series has to become the next seriéphile obsession.

Yuste, who won a Goya for ‘Carmen y Lola’, defines this proposal as “rooted nonsense”, and elaborates: “it goes from the most crazy comedy to the action parts, but then goes down to earth to connect with the emotion and the discourse. All this amalgamation is nonsense, and we as actresses play a very daring line, but when we have to take root in the truth, we take root”. His partner, a well-known Mexican actress who comes to our country for the first time for work, points out why we should see ‘Sin huellas’: “We are living at a time when the world is falling apart, opening the newspaper is catastrophic and what we will save is to laugh. Lighten the soul and give us permission to laugh. So, what does this hold? I’m going to make you laugh and you’re going to have fun”.

Nothing to do with ‘Red Sky’

Although the premise of some female protagonists running away from some guys who want to kill them could remind us of ‘Sky Rojo’, the showrunners from ‘Sin huellas’, Carlos de Pando and Sara Antuña (‘El vecino’, ‘¡García!’) were clear that their series was going the other way. “If I I remember watching it on Netflix and thinking: ‘everything but this’. And it’s nothing against ‘Sky Rojo’; It is a different type of product and it goes to a different audience”, Sara replies, “When it comes to counting the referents it is also important to see what we separated it from. For us, our characters weren’t two girls who in the middle of the season have become empowered and go with a rifle like in a video game. We didn’t want it to be that, but two women in an extraordinary situation but who want to return to their normal life at all times, go home, take off their shoes, grab a piece of pizza and see the Benidorm Festival. Aesthetically, ‘Sky Rojo’ has that Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, constant third act… We had something else in mind”.

They also took off from ‘Nasdrovia’, another national series with common characters involved in trouble with the mafia. “’Nasdrovia’ also separated us by tone, it was crazier, it broke the fourth wall… For them it’s perfect, but we wanted to separate ourselves from that comedy because we wanted to stick more to the characters”. His partner adds: “We wanted to stick more to naturalism. We told the whole team: we do not want epic and there can be no slow cameras with the characters walking, shot ‘Armageddon’”.

Two actresses who met by video call and powerful message

If the series succeeds, it is, among other reasons, because of the chemistry that its two protagonists show together. However, unlike what happens in other projects, they were not able to test together in the same room. “We did the casting through Zoom, but in Mexico the internet is very bad and it got stuck and I was pixelated all the time”, recalls Camila, “I was stuck in the faces of Groucho Marx which was just what we needed. But there was something energetic that I don’t know how to explain to you that, since we started reading, it was very easy and organic”. Once they had their papers secured, Camila flew to Spain. “In fact, we met 20 days before we started shooting, for rehearsals,” says Carolina.

They agree that what is difficult about the series, and also its great virtue, is the balance they make with the tone, which moves between action, western and comedy, but always “with one foot on the ground”. Carolina Yuste explains: “What I most wanted was to be able to dare to look for something new for myself and to reach a limit where if it happened to me, I would go to hell a bit. The serial code line is very fine. That left me a space for creative freedom, not giving myself so much importance and playing a lot.. And then there are new things that suddenly I don’t control so much and that’s cool in our work. And then I really liked how from comedy we can talk about all these other issues that I consider important, which are the emotional part of the series.

Sodi points out that “Who ends up cleaning up the shit, literally, is the people who are more who are more vulnerable and who have all this amount of prejudices from society and fewer opportunities”, such as Desi and Cata, and that is in the series “the engine to look for another exit”. And he adds:This series talks about that, that nobody is invisible and there is no minor story”. Yuste highlights more virtues: “For me the great victory of the series is not giving up giving a message or laughing; we do both. The love of friendship is also very important. In fiction, sometimes it seems that the only love relationships we see are affective sex, but here the journey is to bring friendship to the fore.”

But, above all, a message remains from ‘Sin huellas’: “If we manage to ensure that the next time someone goes to a hotel or a restaurant and look into the eyes of the person you are cleaning and don’t walk by as if you are invisibleso we have done our work”, concludes Carolina Yuste.