Entrevista con Rick Riordan, el autor de los libros de 'PERCY JACKSON' y cocreador de la serie

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Rick Riordan nos habla de mitología, superhéroes y la segunda temporada de 'PERCY JACKSON Y LOS DIOSES DEL OLIMPO' en Disney+.

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00:00Bueno, Mr. Riordan, es Gonzalo de Hipertextual.

00:02Bienvenidos a España.

00:04Muchas gracias.

00:05Congratulations.

00:06The season is, again, so fantastic, so amazing.

00:08Thank you.

00:09I would like to start by asking you,

00:13is it easier for you to write books,

00:15as you are the creator of the novels,

00:17or is it easier to write a TV show,

00:20to create it in another format?

00:24Well, I mean, it depends on which way I look at it, I suppose.

00:29It is easier for me to write books,

00:31because when I'm writing books, it's just me,

00:35and I don't need to have meetings with executives

00:39and have, you know, notes, calls, I just write the book.

00:44So in that way, it's easier.

00:46Now, if I were trying to write the TV show myself,

00:50that would be impossible.

00:52I would find that so hard, and just, I couldn't do it.

00:55So I'm very lucky that I'm not responsible

00:57for all of that writing.

00:58We have a wonderful team, a crew,

01:02we have a writer's room,

01:04and my job with that is simply to kind of be a guide,

01:08to be an advisor on the world of Percy Jackson.

01:12So I read everything.

01:14I read all outlines, every version of the script,

01:18and when needed, I will give notes.

01:20I will say, maybe Percy wouldn't say it that way,

01:24maybe he would say it this way.

01:26Or if it's a mythology thing, I might say,

01:29oh, no, we can't do that,

01:30because Artemis doesn't have children,

01:32so you can't say that.

01:34So that's my role in it.

01:37So in some sense, it's easier to advise than to write.

01:41But in other ways, you know,

01:43at the core, I'm a writer of books,

01:45and I enjoy that.

01:45So that's the thing I wanted to ask you,

01:48because on one side I wanted to ask about

01:50how many times do you have to kind of give in

01:53when you need to do some changes from the book?

01:56And also, what do you have to keep in mind

01:59in order to translate the...

02:00Yeah, I often compare it to learning another language.

02:05For me, anyway, when I'm going from book writing

02:09to learning about television,

02:12it was very difficult for me.

02:14I had to learn a lot in a very short amount of time

02:18and learn a new language of how stories are created.

02:25And it did not come naturally to me.

02:27So I'm very fortunate that the crew was patient with me

02:29and that they helped me to learn as much as I did.

02:33One thing I have to keep in mind

02:34is that when I'm writing a book,

02:38the writing is the final product.

02:40It is the goal of what I do.

02:43When someone is writing for television,

02:46writing is never the final product.

02:48It is only a way to get to the screen.

02:53And that was a revelation to me.

02:55It's like, oh, that's why when they look at a book,

02:58they don't see something that needs to be exactly like this.

03:02You know, it's like a script to them.

03:03It's like, okay, we can change this however it makes sense to us.

03:06It's like, oh, that's why.

03:09But I think as long as the tone is correct,

03:11as long as the major story is what it is in the books,

03:17I think that's okay.

03:18I don't mind changing small details.

03:20I understand that we can't do everything,

03:22as long as Percy Jackson feels like Percy Jackson.

03:27That's really interesting, actually.

03:28Now you're releasing the second season.

03:31You are also developing the third one right now.

03:33Do you feel that you have changed as the creator of the series

03:38from when you started with season one?

03:41Oh, I think so, yes.

03:43One thing that has changed is I'm learning to be more efficient

03:48in the ways that I help.

03:50The first season, for me, I was on set a great deal,

03:56and I was trying to learn about everything

03:58and trying to advise about everything,

04:02about costumes, directing, lighting.

04:05I don't know anything about directing.

04:07So I finally learned that it's okay to let that stuff go.

04:13I don't know those things.

04:15I'm only going to concentrate where I can help,

04:18which is mostly with scripts and to a degree with casting.

04:23I can advise on which actors I like the best.

04:28That's great.

04:28Talking about the actors,

04:30I would like to know if you guys have talked about

04:33something that is kind of natural,

04:36but from season one to season two,

04:38and I guess from season three,

04:40your actors are growing up.

04:42So I don't know if for you guys it's kind of,

04:45I wouldn't say a problem, but an issue?

04:48Yeah, I think that's fair.

04:51It is an issue.

04:53I mean, for me, I guess I was naive.

04:58I thought, oh, you know, television will hire the actors.

05:01They'll start at the right age,

05:03and then we'll just do a season a year.

05:06No problem, because the books are that way.

05:08They age one year.

05:10I did not realize how slow

05:12the television-making process is,

05:16how complicated it is to make a season of television,

05:19especially a difficult, big show like this.

05:23It takes a long time.

05:25And so, yes, it is startling

05:27when you see how much the actors have grown in season two.

05:32There's not much we can do, you know,

05:35except just do the best we can.

05:37And I do tell myself that, well, you know,

05:40I remember when my children were growing up,

05:42and when they go away,

05:45like when they have the end of the school year,

05:47and they have summer break,

05:48and they come back at the beginning of the year,

05:50everybody says,

05:51oh, you're so much bigger and taller.

05:54You know, so that does happen.

05:55So I guess we just lean into that.

05:59That's great.

05:59That's actually great.

06:01Are the expectations different from season one to season two,

06:05because season one was a success?

06:07I guess there was kind of a...

06:09Now you are more secure about it,

06:11but have the expectations changed for you guys?

06:14I think for me personally,

06:17the expectations are simply that I always want to improve.

06:21I think that we are learning,

06:23all of us that are in the show,

06:25the actors are learning how...

06:27They're literally growing up,

06:29but they're also growing into their roles.

06:32They're learning how to do these roles better and better.

06:36We as writers are learning how do you take the book

06:40and translate it in the best way into scripts

06:44so that we're giving the actors the best possible lines.

06:47The whole crew is learning.

06:50So my goal, my expectations are simply,

06:53I want every season to feel better and faster

06:56and more interesting than the one that came before.

06:59That's great.

07:01If season one was about self-discovery in a way,

07:04I feel that the second book and the second season

07:07is a bit, I don't know, maybe darker.

07:10So what would you say is the lesson from The Sea of Monsters?

07:14The Sea of Monsters, I think, is about trust and friendship.

07:20We know...

07:21The characters know who they are now,

07:23but how do they react with one another?

07:27How do they learn to trust one another

07:29and to be honest with each other?

07:32There's a scene where, for instance,

07:35Annabeth has a prophecy.

07:37She knows a prophecy that Percy doesn't know.

07:41And Chiron tells her,

07:43you can't tell Percy.

07:45She struggles with that.

07:46She says, what do I do?

07:48And she tells Percy,

07:49I have information.

07:51I don't know if it's a good idea to tell you or not.

07:54So that's what it's about.

07:56It's about trusting.

07:57That is great.

07:58That's a great lesson, actually.

07:59I don't know if you can tell me anything about Season 3.

08:03How is it going?

08:05Sure, sure.

08:06What can we spend about it?

08:08Oh, it's amazing.

08:09I've been to set a couple of times already.

08:12They're well underway.

08:14They're filming,

08:16and I think they're over halfway through,

08:18I would say, the principal photography.

08:20It's looking incredible.

08:22I think that my expectations have been fulfilled

08:25when I talk about each season getting better.

08:28I think this is the best one yet, Season 3.

08:30I love the scripts.

08:32The sets that they have designed

08:35just blew my mind.

08:39You know, I look at them,

08:40and they say,

08:40do you have any suggestions?

08:42And I'm like, no.

08:44Do that.

08:45That's perfect.

08:46And the actors are incredible.

08:48So I'm so excited.

08:50That can be the biggest compliment

08:52from the writer of the book.

08:54Yeah, yeah.

08:56You're one of the greatest writers

08:58of mythology in the modern era,

09:00because you are.

09:01So I would like to ask you,

09:03why do you think that mythology

09:05still resonates nowadays?

09:06Yeah, it's very interesting.

09:09It's thousands of years later.

09:12And for some reason,

09:13we are still telling these stories.

09:15I think it's because mythology

09:17is really a way of looking

09:20at the human condition,

09:22but at a distance,

09:24so that it doesn't feel as threatening to us.

09:27The gods, the demigods, the monsters,

09:32you know, the psychologists like Freud

09:34would probably say,

09:34these are all things from our mind, right?

09:37But it's true.

09:39I mean, we have forces in the world

09:42that we can't control,

09:43not only outside,

09:44not only storms and the sea

09:47and droughts and all these things,

09:49but inside, anger, love, emotions.

09:53And they do sometimes feel like

09:55they come from outside us

09:56and they are affecting us.

09:58So the myths help us explain that.

10:01And the heroes give us models

10:03of what to do or what not to do

10:06to face these things.

10:08So I think that's why.

10:10There are ways of teaching ourselves

10:12what it is to be human.

10:14That's lovely, actually.

10:16I would like to end with a final question.

10:19Nowadays, a lot of people say

10:21that superheroes are like the modern mythology.

10:23Do you agree with that?

10:25Yes, absolutely, I do.

10:27I remember very early on,

10:30I was doing an event at a school

10:33and I was talking to the children

10:35about Percy Jackson.

10:37And I started with the question,

10:39if one of your parents was a god,

10:43who would you choose?

10:45And they were all so excited

10:46and one young boy went,

10:48Batman!

10:49And I said,

10:51very good answer!

10:53Because that's the same thing.

10:55It's a person who is bigger than life.

11:00So yes, absolutely,

11:02superheroes are just an extension of mythology,

11:06what we've always done.

11:07Completely agree with you.

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