He is one of the most successful Spanish artists of all time and has been in the media spotlight for almost five decades, but Miguel Bosé, the person hiding behind the myth, is, in many ways, a mystery.
His fascinating story, from his origins within his famous family and the beginning of his brilliant career; The complicated relationship with his parents, the ups and downs of his love life, his most unknown partners, his brightest and also his darkest moments constitute the plot axis of Bosé, an authorized biopic about the artist’s life, which Telecinco will soon premiere openly. readapted to four episodes, within the framework of a programming event that the network has called La noche de Miguel Bosé.
Produced by Paramount in collaboration with Shine Iberia (Banijay Iberia), Elefantec Global and Legacy Rock, with a script by Boris Izaguirre, Ángeles González Sinde, Nacho Faerna and Isabel Vázquez and under the direction of Miguel Bardem and Fernando Trullols, Bosé features the actors Iván Sánchez and José Pastor embodying the artist in the two timelines in which the story takes place.
Completing the cast are Nacho Fresneda in the role of Luis Miguel Dominguín; the Italian actress Valeria Solarino as Lucía Bosé; Alicia Borrachero giving life to La Tata, a key character in the artist’s life; Ana Jara, playing Rosa Lagarrigue, his great friend and manager; the Cuban interpreter Mariela Garriga as Giannina Facio, with whom she had an affair while she was the partner of Julio Iglesias (Miguel Ángel Muñoz); Raquel Salamanca and Gabriel Guevara in the roles of Ana Obregón and Nacho Duato, Miguel’s partners with whom he maintains a great friendship today; José Sospedra as the couple with whom he had a long-lasting relationship and formed a family; Óscar Higares playing Domingo Dominguín, his favorite uncle; and Ana Torrent, as Rosario Primo de Rivera, her father’s partner in his final years.
Her seductive, rebellious and transgressive personality; her enigmatic, chameleon-like and mysterious appearance; her eventful love life; and, above all, his music and his unquestionable and multifaceted talent, turned Miguel Bosé first into a sex-symbol and a mass idol; later in a legend.
The four episodes of this biopic are named after a mythical song by the artist: Captain Trueno’s son, Don Diablo, Bandido and Morenamía. Each title works as a common thread of the events that are narrated: from the beginning of his career and his years of youth and debauchery, in which he broke all the molds despite the conventions of the time and the opposition of his father, to his stage of artistic and personal maturity, during the tour of his album Papito, in which he makes the decision to be a father. All this with the story of his successive romances and the most important moments of his career.
The first chapter begins in May 1996. Miguel Bosé receives the news of his father’s death while he is filming a film in France and undertakes a long journey to reach his funeral in Sotogrande. During the journey he remembers his difficult relationship with the bullfighter and how he abandoned work in the family business to try his luck at first in film and later in music.
Her first big hit is Linda, a version of an Italian song by the group Pooh. His chords take the action to 1977, when Miguel’s extraordinary debut occurs on live television for all of Spain from Florida Park.
The recording of his first album takes place while Miguel resides in Rome, where he maintains a love relationship with the young actress Barbara Nascimbene, who becomes pregnant. While they plan the wedding, Miguel has numerous affairs with other women, such as Elsa Martinelli, a co-star in a movie; and with men, like Marco Panella, an important political figure in Italy.
After an incident with dramatic consequences, the relationship with Barbara ends. Decades later, Miguel decides to become a father through surrogacy, but the first attempt will be a failure.