Malaga, 4th March. Seven days before the twentieth anniversary of the 11-M terrorist attacks, the largest jihadist terrorist attack that killed 192 people and injured 2,000, the Festival de Málaga exclusively premieres the first episode of the series Nos vemos en otra vida, the new Disney+ drama by the brothers Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo, centred on the figure of the first person convicted of the attack, Gabriel Montoya Vidal, who was also the only minor involved.

The 6-part drama is an adaptation of the book by journalist Manuel Jabois, Nos vemos en esta vida o en la otra, which is based on the interview he conducted with Gabriel Montoya Vidal, better known as Baby, about his links to the biggest jihadist attack committed on European soil on 11 March 2004. At the time, Baby was a sixteen-year-old teenager who, together with Emilio Trashorras, took part in moving the explosives to be used in Madrid. He was the first person to be convicted of the attacks, and his testimony was key in the 2007 mass trial.

Its creators explained in a discussion that they wanted to tell a story of 11-M that 'had never been told before'. 'Everyone knows the story of how the trains exploded, that there were people who left backpacks behind, but nobody knew where the explosives came from or who had taken them to Madrid. No one knows about the Asturian story, or why there was a minor involved in the case. We wanted to look at that', they said.

They also noted that it was 'complicated' to write the script, as they didn’t want to 'whitewash the situation or the protagonists', which is why they contacted the victims of the attack to let them know they were going to make the project.

'It’s a series about real victims, about a real case, which is why we shared our idea with them. We also wanted to give them a voice, to give them a time and a space that had been denied to them for a long time', explained Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo.

His brother also added that they were 'very clear' that they did not want to show the attack as such. We didn’t want to show blood. We wanted to be very respectful of the victims and not make the attack itself something sensationalist or to recreate it', he added. 

That’s why they had to do 'deep and extensive' research work that was not only based on Jabois’ book, but also on studying the 2007 mass trial in detail. 
'It completely blew our minds how the victims overcame, how they faced the task of telling what had happened to them with the civic duty of transmitting what happened so that it wouldn’t be forgotten. We found it moving, and the best way to tell the story. Moreover, when we showed the episodes to the victims, they themselves were overwhelmed', he explained.

The actors played real characters, some of whom are still in prison, and Pol López, who played Emilio Trashorras in the six episodes, confessed that at first he wasn’t sure whether or not to accept the role.

'It’s a character and a case that needs to be treated with a lot of respect. But in the end, I decided to do it, because in terms of acting it’s also a gift. To be able to play the role, I distanced myself as far as possible from reality. If anything was said about the attack, I stayed away, I didn’t want to hear anything, and didn’t I want to have any real contact with the person either. I based myself only on the script, which left you room to generate and do the work of an actor', he explained.

As for Roberto Gutiérrez and Quim Ávila, the two actors who play Baby, first in his adolescence and later in his more mature stage, they said that they had to have a kind of 'brutal connection' so that they both had the same essence.