Laura Sánchez in Fórmula TV

How are you facing the new season?

It is going to be a new season with loads of action, revenge, and new threads. Pepa is going to be very crazy.

Did you know that last season was going to end the way it did?

No, we knew Marian was leaving the show, but I never imagined that it was going to be like that, it was painful... Because the script was painful. And painful personally as well, Juan [Don Lorenzo] and I were really affected by the fact that that last sequence was the last one we ever shot with Marian. Because you know sometimes you shoot the end and then the beginning, but no, our last day of work was her death, and we had such a load of tension and feelings that were released and helped the characters.

Was it hard to shoot Silvia’s death scene?

Two whole days on our knees. You can ask Juan, we didn’t know how to stand anymore. It was really hot, it was July and they were really hard. The blood was getting dry on our hands so we had to get them wet all the time, it was really hard. Both days were really hard for that sequence.

What did you feel when you saw the episode?

I cried. A lot. In my house when I watched it. I knew the script by heart and I had seen parts of the episode here but anyway I cried. But I think I cried because I knew I was not gonna work with those “deceased” colleagues.

Are you aware of the repercussions of your love story on the Internet?

Yeah, we know it, we know it, and we get new information every day about new websites created to resurrect my wife, and well, we’re really aware of it and they are taking notes “up there” [meaning the producers and writers].

What would you say to the PepSi fans?

That they’re doing a great job and that I think maybe they can reap the fruits of their efforts.

That means that...

That means that... In the first episode you will see Silvia already, even if in flashbacks, and in my memories, and she’s going to be really present, especially in Pepa’s head... That is going to be Pepa’s plot for the new season.

So Pepa is not going to fall in love again, for now...

No, she doesn’t fall in love again. She’s thirsty for revenge, really.

What’s going to be Pepa’s situation in the new season?

Well, she’s gonna go completely crazy – if she was already crazy when she first came here, you can just imagine now. She’s going to have a foul mouth, the writers have pulled that off and... Geez! She lives with Paco, sleeps in Sara’s old room, and has a good relationship with Aitor, he has become her confidant, her accomplice in her crazy hooligan moments... She has a really good professional relationship with the new forensics, even if she doesn’t accept him at the very beginning, and a real love/hate story with my new sister-in-law [Commander Salgado?]... But she’s still really crazy and full of action, and violent.

How’s Pepa’s return to the precinct going to be?

I can tell you that when the new season starts, Pepa is not working as a cop. She asked for a six month leave after what happened. In those six months she has done unthinkable things... But now she’s coming back to the precinct, standing up to the new Inspector, and putting everything and everyone in their place.

With so many changes, don’t you feel as if you were in a different show?

No, no, it’s not a new show. It’s a show with new incentives – it’s really nice and refreshing working with new people, with young people. I knew Goya [Toledo, aka Reyes] already, but I didn’t know any of the boys, and it’s really good fun. It’s nice how they just arrived a month and a half ago but it was as if they were not new, as if they had been working with us for a while longer, and they get the same jokes. You so have to come one day when we’re shooting... But well, this is the season where we have been scolded the most because I don’t know why but we’re always laughing, the stupid laughter every single day... And they have scolded me and they had never done that before!

What do you like the most in the series, drama or comedy?

From the acting point of view, I prefer drama and action. As a viewer, I love comedy, and the absurd humour of Paco, Mariano and Don Lorenzo – that’s what I really like about the show.

Do you see any other Spanish TV shows?

Oh yeah, I watch Doctor Mateo, Sin tetas no hay paraíso, even if it clashed... Aída as well, when it starts again. I watch many Spanish shows.

What character from any other shows would you like to be?

I would have loved to be Paz, from Aída. I love her. Melanie is awesome.