“Filming in Barcelona is always complicated,” he points out. Jorge Torregrossaco-director and executive producer of ‘The body on fire‘, when I ask him about his favorite locations from the series that is currently sweeping the Netflix. The ‘showrunner’ expressed himself in similar terms. Jack Lothian when explaining the hard work behind ‘Who is Erin Carter?’, whose Barcelona ended up incorporating landscapes beyond Barcelona. And, in fact, something similar once happened to the team of the successful ‘thriller’ about the crime of the Urban Police, current number one series on Netflix: the Sant Jordi sequence was not filmed on the Ramblas, but in the Passeig de Pere III in Manresa.
But Torregrossa (relieved by Laura Mañá in the central part of the series) can boast of having captured the real spaces at many other times. “The real Rosa Peral [Úrsula Corberó] and Albert Lopez [Quim Gutiérrez] They met working at the Free Zone police station. It is an area that fascinates me, that seems truly cinematic to me. We were able to patrol the same streets where they patrolled.” Or, well, have lunch where they had lunch: “We filmed in a bar called Litoral [C/ de la Mare de Déu de Port, 14] where the real Urban Guard eats. While we were locating, the owner of the bar assured us that he knew the real characters, who used to go to eat there.” It’s in another bar, he Sidereal from the Joan Llongueras squarewhere Rosa shows her friends Pedro’s ring [José Manuel Poga] and Albert appears to make an abrupt marriage proposal: the famous “in case you’re thinking about it.” The agents dinner where Rosa sticks her tongue out at the camera was filmed in the restaurant PortinyolAt the port of Arenys de Mar.
In fiction, even more iconic and recognizable places appear, such as the Campus of the Faculty of Medicine (converted into the Palace of Justice, with interiors reproduced in the Foment del Treball headquarters in Via Laietana) or the amusement park Tibidabo, where Rosa enjoys in different sequences, with her little daughter or her lover, the merry-go-round, the Diavolo and the roller coaster. “It wasn’t in the script and I believed that at this moment we should take them to a place very iconic and representative,” explains Torregrossa. “It was difficult, because we also filmed on a day that was half open. But the sequences of Tibidabo They seem iconic to me.”
The antiheroine has a worse experience in the viewpoint of the Miramar gardenswhere he is assaulted by a homeless man and stabbed in the leg, resulting in a crude response from Albert.
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Other spaces with good views: on the one hand, the Horta viewpointwhere Rosa and Pedro, her official partner, have a moment of what seems like true intimacy, or the Mühlberg bridge, scene of a meeting between dangerous lovers after a fast motorcycle ride. A view from the summit before the worst fall.