House of Cards: fourth season approaching fiction and reality – Daily News – Lisbon

Weft returns today to the TV series and comes Sunday Netflix Portugal. Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright talk about similarities with current US policy

The first few minutes of the first episode of the fourth season of House of Cards are anything but political. To be embarrassing for the more sensitive viewer. Rest the reader and follower of starring series by Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright: only will make the spoilers essential to realize what you can see today, at 23.00, in the TV series (and, from Sunday, Netflix in Portugal).

the time of the series created by Beau Willimon is accidentally or maybe not, the time of the US political agenda. Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) is in full electoral campaign for the primaries. Reelection is the goal, but the US ruthless and corrupt president is faced with several weight obstacles: Heather Dunbar, the other candidate of the Democratic Party and the newcomer Will Conway, Republican candidate who lives a particularly positive moment with the electorate and the media. To further stoke the perfidy of Frank, Claire is not willing to follow the outlined plans and wants, so to speak, make wings and fly. The character played by Kevin Spacey is in a political and personal crossroads.

In international press conference, in which the DN participated Spacey carefully avoids comparisons with the US policy today. “There is the real world and the world of fiction and I work in the world of fiction and I’m not interested in engaging me in these matters. I think there are already too many attention focused on these issues,” he stresses. When asked about the popularity of Donald Trump in the race for the presidential, Robin Wright points out: “The reality is stranger than fiction at this point let me surprised Of course, in fiction there are dramatic things that leave us..” Oh my God, this is crazy …. “we are ficcionar a political drama. But still, we see this kind of things in the real world.”

Barack Obama is one of many politicians who have publicly expressed predilection for House of Cards . Robin Wright reveals the purpose of the political class viewers, a curious episode, always without revealing the name of the character in question.

“This is a very important political and known who was sitting next to me . an event soon after the first season was released, he told me: “I love the series is the best series ever. I and my wife watched the marathon in episodes at night when the season was launched “,” recalls the actress, continuing the story: “I asked him:.”? How likely do you think that is the series “And he said: “Oh, about 99%” And I:. “Really ?! Wow! What is that 1% “.. I was thinking that he would not kill a journalist, not would shoot for the metro line [reference to the murder Zoey Barnes, in the second season] And he answered me:” Good the 1% that seemed far-fetched was the law of education. would never be approved with that quickly. “And I could not stop laughing because he had nothing to do with the murder,” recalls Wright.

Thursday guaranteed season

in January, Netflix, which produces and owns the House of Cards , confirmed that the political drama will, in 2017, a fifth season. It was also revealed that Beau Willimon, creator and scriptwriter of the series, abandon the project to devote himself to writing a play. “I’m going to miss him. I can understand that he is tired. It’s been a marathon for him, be the showrunner and main scriptwriter. Our work will now be doing everything we can to honor the series he created. we will miss him, “bail Kevin Spacey.

One of the strongest attraction of the House of Cards (which has earned six Emmy awards and two Golden Globes, gold) has been the dynamic, often schizophrenic, so often cruel, the relationship of Frank and Claire. “It’s been an amazing journey to create the relationship that these characters hold over so many years. And the pleasure that the public has had, due to the complexity of this relationship. At the end of the third season, they had a discussion. And we will see them discuss with these problems and to discover whether they are together or apart stronger, “explains Kevin Spacey. The dynamics of the presidential couple is also reported by Robin Wright. “The fact that Frank and Claire are an alpha male and an alpha female requires and cause conflicts and interesting dynamics. And that’s what is so fantastic duo, is that they are a team. And if they always get along and do always the best for each other, there was not much drama in the series. They feed and grow with one another, “explains the actress.

” television has become a very interesting space to tell stories, “says Kevin Spacey, regarding the importance of House of Cards had, to mark a before and after in television fiction production (it was the first Netflix’s own design). From tomorrow, the series will now also be available on Netflix Portugal. It is recalled that, so far, House of Cards was passed in our country only by the cable channel subscription TV Series.