You Would Do It Too (Tú También lo Harías)’ Season 1 Postmortem Interview with Actor Pablo Molinero

Pablo Molinero in "You Would Do It Too (Tú También lo Harías)," now streaming on Apple TV+.

We’re not done yet with coverage regarding the epic season finale of You Would Do It Too (Tú También lo Harías) on Apple TV+. Simply because that twist was one for the ages, and who better to speak to regarding it, than the man who chose to become the Justice, than Pablo Molinero, the actor who plays Fran on the show.
 
John Betancourt: I would like to start by getting to know what it was that attracted you to the role of Fran in the first place.
 
Pablo Molinero:  So not to reveal too much about the character, but I really found his journey interesting, extremely interesting. It really gets you thinking how one person can really change their mindset and perspective about things, about truth and justice, when life gives you the adequate circumstances to do so.
 
John Betancourt: I'm also very curious, because every actor in this story has just such depth to the character that they play, and that's a testament to your work, because you created someone that's very real. And I'm curious how you made Fran feel so real as an actor.
 
Pablo Molinero: I think just David Victori’s way of working, his methodology really facilitated creating all this… new reality, what he wanted was to make the scenes really dynamic and to pick up momentum. So, we didn't shoot with a lot of cuts. We actually shot as if they were sequences, even if they were edited afterwards. For us, for the actors, we just didn't stop rolling. We acted as if we were in theater when it all really has this flow.
 
John Betancourt: So, I have to ask, if you were aware of the twist in advance.
 
Pablo Molinero: So, I knew, but the others didn't. For example, I knew that there were going to be eight episodes, and I knew what the finale was going to be, but my co-actors like Anna Polvorosa and Ana Wagener, who played the chief, they didn't know. They didn't know that what the last episode was going to be, and they were shooting without actually knowing what the end was going to be. They found out while they were watching something on television in one of the scenes, and they saw my character appear.
 
John Betancourt: Then as a follow up into my question about building the character. How did knowing the twist in advance help you build and flesh out Fran?
 
Pablo Molinero: So, what happened to Fran actually, is what happens to many of us as we go through life, and we come across a crisis. For a person who is very rational and very organized and has this very structured way of thinking, they experience a full loss of control, so they no longer really know what their life is. They don't know what being a cop is. They lose sight of the fact that they're working to serve others and in the benefit of truth and justice. And Fran experiences a full change in his personality. He becomes chaotic. So, it's not really that I thought what this was going to be like. I actually had to experience and live through this crisis. So that's not something that you think through, and you that you think out, but you actually live it.
 
John Betancourt: That is very insightful, and obviously this is a very, very intelligent show. It has a lot to say about choices we make. Great example is Fran’s journey. And I'm curious what you kind of hope from a message standpoint audiences take away from this season.
 
Pablo Molinero: With so many twists and turns, I don't think that… well... I don't have an intention myself, and I don't think that the writers had an intention of either in providing a message or an answer, but rather to really get us to question our role in what society is like now. What is truth? What are all these truths, especially in this time when we see fake news, how easy is it to manipulate truth? Do we each have our own truth as individuals? How does the media interfere in creating this truth? So, if anyone comes out with lots of questions, I'll be quite satisfied.
 
John Betancourt: The last question that I have for you today, what are you most proud of with what you accomplished here?
 
Pablo Molinero: Well, I could say that we had this one day when we were shooting, and it was called -- the whole day was called the opera. It was just shooting straight from the attack on the bus to the cops arriving, to the interrogations, to transferring to the police station, to the prison, and these were all sequences that were shot together. It was nonstop from when they yelled action to when they yelled cut. It was two hours, which included the transfers from like the scene of the crime to the police station, when we must have shot straight through about 200 pages of the script. So, it was almost theatrical, as I was saying, and just the show must go on. So, it was really nonstop. It was a full trip.
 
This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.