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Omar Ayuso Talks Repay to ‘Elite’ and the Moral Responsibility He Feels Playing a Gay Muslim Character
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The fictional high academy of Las Encinas continues to be a playground for murderous mischief as the Spanish teen drama Elite made its return to Netflix on Oct. 20. Now in its seventh season, the series has added new characters to the salacious mix — Brazilian singer Anitta being among them — and brought back a member of the original ensemble cast, Omar Ayuso, who starred as Omar Shanaa from seasons one through five.
“One daytime by chance, we were on a train, and I asked him if he would be willing to arrive back,” says screenwriter, director and producer Carlos Montero, who created the series with Darío Madrona. “We gave him a protagonist role and we felt in debt to Omar because he always pulled out all the stops with our demonstrate . We love his character very much and we wanted to give him the importance we think he deserved.”
Elite has been praised for its progressive representation of sexuality and identity o
Sexy Spanish series Olympo brings drama and intrigue to the world of elite young athletes
Spanish TV show Elite garnered many fans for the way each season based itself around a whodunnit murder mystery, all while probing dynamics of gender, class, race and sexuality with a cast of impossibly good-looking high school students.
Fast Facts about Olympo
What: An utterly ridiculous soap by the same producers behind Spanish smash punch series Elite.
Starring: Nira Oshaia, Clara Galle, María Romanillos, Agustín Della Corte, Nuno Gallego
Where: Streaming now on Netflix.
Likely to make you feel: Incredulous
Olympo transplants the action — with many of the same actors who starred in later seasons of Elite — from a private school into an exclusive High-Performance Centre (HPC) in the Pyrenees. Top-performing athletes are hand-picked and arduously trained with the complete goal of qualifying for world championships.
"A cage full of sharks, snakes and vultures disguised in perfect bodies," in one character's words, should be a stage primed for the exploration of the sam
New characters and more drama in Season 6 of “Elite”
The steamy, soapy teen drama, “Elite,” with its latest class of LGBTQ students at Las Encinas, returns November 18 to Netflix. Fans of this spicy hit series will surely be eager to see what is in store for their favorite returning characters.
This season picks up on some storylines from last season while also introducing novel characters and plenty of drama, drama, drama. (Only the first three episodes were available for preview.) The opening scene features a crime, which is part of the series tried and true formula. While Season 6 doesn’t not feature an investigation as earlier seasons did, there are some suggestions hinted at who committed the crime and why the incident in interrogate occurred. (It would spoil things to reveal either the victim or circumstance).
To recap, Benjamin (Diego Martín), the disgraced principal from Las Encinas, is in jail following crimes he committed in Season 5. He tells his daughter Ari (Carla Díaz) that she and her siblings, Patrick (Manu Ríos) and Mencia (Martina Cariddi), must go back t
If you are looking for a queer storyline with a happy ending (at least for now), I recommend checking out the Spanish TV series Elite, available on Netflix. Along with featuring two queer male characters, one being a POC Muslim, the series also has your usual dose of tall school drama and murder!
Minor spoilers about Elite queer storyline follow. You possess been warned.
While queer representation has been increasing in media, not all representation is well-written. Many TV shows and movies can’t verb to get away from the ‘sad queers’ and ‘bury your gays‘ tropes. However, after watching Eliteseason one, I am happy to report the queer storyline featuring Omar and Ander is well-written.
Omar (Omar Ayuso) is a POC Muslim who has a very strict father. Still in the closet, as far as his parents are concerned, Omar has been selling drugs to make enough coins to one afternoon leave them. He ends up selling drugs to Ander (Arón Piper). There is an instant connection between the two and the writers do an amazing job of making every interaction they have