Screenwriter Leonardo Padrón: Pálpito was my passport for becoming an international writer

Pálpito, produced by CMO and written by Leonardo Padrón for Netflix, has been the passport for him to become an international writer, according to the Venezuelan author and screenwriter who attended Iberseries.

“Pálpito was in first place in 81 countries for more than a month and I recently realized that a large number of people in the industry saw it. I felt here in Madrid, where there are writers, directors, industry executives, that Pálpito was a passport to internationalization,” Padrón pointed out during an EN VIVO with Ríchard Izarra.

He noted that the second season of the series “will be better” with “much higher production values.”

“A second season always requires raising the bet. Without a doubt, after the success of the first season, there is no time for complacency and simply preaching to the choir, you have to go much further. There are going to be new characters, the plot has some new turning points, I even demanded myself as a writer that the plot twists be more and more surprising and intense. It was a challenge for me as a writer, to overcome myself, that’s what it’s all about, to surprise the audience and move them,” he said.

He also mentioned his experience working with Roberto Stopello, Netflix’s VP of Series in Latin America. “Roberto is an executive who has the virtue of being, essentially, a writer and he knows about the needs and concerns of a writer, about the creative freedom that he needs. I think he is the best interlocutor to unfold what one wants to tell. He is a fantastic guy, with a great vision of the business, with a great nose for detecting stories that are potential successes. I’m very grateful to have an interlocutor of the caliber of Stopello,” he said.

To conclude, he talked about the challenges Latin Americans have. “To tell stories with increasing rigor and level. The objective is to write stories better and better, to continue exploring the universe of themes that we have in Latin America, of which I feel there is a lot of potentials. There are still many stories to tell and with which we can surprise the world if we look where we have to and develop them with the rigor needed in order to reach the level of the products that are being made in other latitudes.”

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