How to survive single: Emiliano and Sebastián Zurita confess to Infobae what it was like to work behind the scenes

Once again, the Zurita brothers surprise everyone and not because of the performances and films they have made in the cinema, but because they are now venturing into production and production.

And if acting is difficult, the production of a series for sure is quite complex, but for these brothers nothing is a challenge and they have shown that they can be behind and in front of the cameras.

That is why Infobae talked to Emiliano and Sebastián Zurita to share with us what this process of acting and executing “How to Survive Singles” was like, the new Prime Video series that will come out this April 15.

What has this process been like for you in terms of direction, production, actors?

Emiliano: I think that, for me, that I am on the other side of the cameras, as creator, producer and director of two episodes (along with my brother) is very different from acting, clearly, mostly because it is much more stressful, but I think that's because you have the opportunity to see a project grow and evolve, than for me that's the most important thing.

Since we started with the scripts, we saw what worked from the first season, what not so much, what we could improve and then go into production with all that learned, as directors also already have the characters anchored and understand what we want to tell through them, which was the funniest thing.

I think that, from there, for me, the most interesting thing was that the second season ended up being much better than the first season. You realize it from the lighting, the changing rooms, situations. Everything grew a lot and it is indicative that we are doing our job properly. We are learning from our mistakes and most of all understanding that we already have an audience that liked the first one and thanks to them we can continue exploring in the second season and I think they are all going to enjoy it much more and I am very happy with what we did.

Sebastián: I think that, being able to reach a season 2, you are already much more familiar, as my brother says, but what I really liked is that we were much more risky, even the way we directed: our “shots” were more complex, the way of looking for situations because you already trust your instincts, what you already tried when At first, in season one, but there is still a lot of trial and error and in the second you already have more confidence and I think in general that's why season 2 benefited so much.

Both the actors and the writers and the whole team that had already been working a year ago, who know each other, already know how to play more in our style because it means “How to survive single”.

In that sense, the interesting thing is that you always try to improve on the basis that already exists and at the same time you allow yourself to be able to play more because there was already an anchor of what the characters were before and now we have a totally different universe for each of them.

Then we put those universes together so that the comedy of each one is created, of their own situations.

You have “Addiction House projects” and you have done plays, films, television and production, but what has the work-family division been like?

Emiliano: I think it's easier. When you are creating a project, especially “yours” you still have to fight with a lot of people to be able to take your vision of the project, because being something half subjective in some ways such as “if this is funny” or “we want this character” there still have to be a lot of discussions, but it's very different when I'm with my brother because The difference is that we know where we want to go and we agree on that 99% of the time.

I think the only thing, which is different is the way we got to that. In the end, they are conversations that can be very direct so as not to waste time and in the end we end up with a product that is much better because it has the best ideas of both of us and that shows when we are directing together.

The episodes end with a dynamism and a very different way of telling them because we mix the best ideas of the two and for me it has been a great experience of having this project, that it is so big, that it is our baby and being able to share it with people and obviously with the great team that we have.

How was the process of “How to survive single?”

Sebastián: It was an interesting process, things seem to happen quickly, but they take a process. My brother and I started to write the first season, the pilot, our bible, etc. After we managed to sell we started to have our partners in Campanario, Americans, it includes Carlos Bucay who is our “showrunner” and the idea was to be able to bring it to the market and “Prime video” was that he bet on us, we were the first comedy of original Spanish-speaking, worldwide.

Now I can tell you and confirm that we are going out to 240 countries, we are going with dubbing and subtitles thanks to the success of the one.

I think that process is always interesting because season two, as soon as they give us a “green light” you're in a quarter of writers six or seven months because you know it's something that my brother and I care a lot about, creating that group of writers that sometimes doesn't happen so much in Latin America because there's no time, because there's no time, because there's no time, because there's no time resources that if we bet a lot and being able to always bring directors who can contribute something different.

A series like ours that has so many cameos, I think we are going to have the record for cameos of any series in the world, it's crazy how many cameos we have. That people allow people to be themselves in our series and play with an alternate reality makes for a very fun and unique series that they can confront.

It is always a challenge, but the key is that we have achieved a great team behind the scenes that take care of our backs in every way.

The cast includes Sebastián Zurita, Tato Alexander, Roberto Flores, Fabrizio Santini, Octavio Hinojosa, Lucía Gomez-Robledo, Pamela Almanza, Paulina Washington, Mario Alberto Monroy, Gustavo Egelhaaf, Marcela Guirado, María Castañeda, Paulina Gil and Lucia Toro, and some of the cameos of the second season include talent such as Fárdoba Daisy, Edgar Vivar, Paulina Vega and Vadhir Derbez

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