The series 90 minutes starts with a ball rolling on a court in Ecatepec,but soon it makes it clear that what is at stake goes far beyond football. Although amateur sport works as a starting point, the series created by Joe Rendón and starring José María de Tavira uses humor as a tool to explore contemporary issues: gentrification, migration, identity and complexity of masculinities.
“The series reflects the complexity of masculinities in different ages and stages, but ther are also female characters who have their own struggles. Explore the drama of migrants returning to Mexico, those who went to the United States and they return to a country, to a community that is no longer what it was. And of course the issue of the gentrification and defense of the territory, of the physical space,” said José María de Tavira to MILLENNIUM.
“I wanted to highlight the Mexican resilience,” said Joe Rendón, who found inspiration for this story in the life of his grandfather, a mechanic who founded amateurs football teams where his children played. Under this look created the character of Don Gil, an endearing and combative figure that represents the affective memory of the neighborhood, that space that the series treats as a dispute ground, when foreigners want to appropriate it.
A series recorded in Ecatepec
With an agile tone and a critical look, history makes each game a metaphor for daily struggles, making the neighborhood not only an action scenario but a character in his own voice:
“Ecatepec is a good reference of what is the life of Chilango and life in the peripheries of Mexico City, I wanted to highlight that, how we put good face to things and how we rely among all. That was the goal,” Joe said about history.
Series ’90 minutes’ | Courtesyalso born from the absurd Amateur football, “the dissociation between how you look inside the court and how you look from outside, that is already comic”, his character is a former football star marked by an accident that left him with a physical and emotional disability, isolated in his pulquería, until the time comes to reconcile with his past to guide The razors.
Series ’90 minutes’ addresses songs “canceled”
In the series, comedy becomes a powerful tool to address issues that, in another tone, They could be canceled, “Joe meeting a cast capable of being casual on the set, of generating the space for us to improvise and felt free to say how much we came to mind,” said José María, about the creative process; The result is a series that plays with the limits of humor and political correction.
“The series addresses masculinities and heteropatriarchy, portrays men who are learning to be better with their masculinity,” added the actor, which could be seen as “a string of watermelons” becomes an uncomfortable mirror of a masculinity in the process of review, with jokes that “pass through the line, they hit the post”, but that, thanks to the intelligence of the script With the public without losing depth.
What will the ’90 -minute’ series deal with?
90 minutes Follow the Las Navajas Club, an Ecatepec amateur football team which seeks to win the League tournament to save its family court from the progress of a casino backed by real estate interests. In his search for the triumph, he decides to recruit ‘El Veneno’ (Tavira), a former team of local football whose life took an unexpected turn. Along with Chema de Tavira, the cast also includes teresa Ruiz, Raúl Méndez and Álvaro Guerrero.
’90 minutes’, a commitment to empathy with street football
The actor Mario Alberto Monroy plays the range in the series which says is “a story that has not been seen” where the leading team Las Navajas is street.
“It is a llanero team that practices on the ground, which is not professional but amateur, that plays football to find its pack, its tribe, and that they do not want an empire like the casino to come to invade to take away their space,” he revealed from the plot.
Mario said he was delighted with the script since he first read it While he was on a long flight,he even toured the libretto completely at that time.
Aware of the fanaticism in the country for sport, considers that the informal and urban aspect that It will be reflected in the project will connect with all those who have played with their friends in the most improvised stage.
“When you are close to football, you experience that if a glass comes out on the court it is indeed better that you do not bark so much, it is also a sport to which you can change the measure of the court, lack a ball and replace it with another object, put two backpacks or stones as a goal, change the rules as the ‘goal wins’, I think those aspects make this sport powerful,” he