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On Saturday, October 4, the Costa del Sol was the unlikely setting for a British comedy classic when Ketchup premiered at the Marbella International Film Festival.
The Red Dog Cinema was buzzing with excitement as Kevin McNally and Sandra Dickinson arrived to launch this expat-themed adventure.
The show, created by Joe Cawley and based on his best-selling memoir More Ketchup than Salsa chronicles the real-life chaos of a British family trying to run a Spanish bar.
Ketchup is a cocktail of Benidorm sun-drenched absurdity, Cheers barroom banter and It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia edge. Cawley’s fiancee Joy and Cawley who wrote the scripts, served as producers, glowed on the red carpet. “This is our tale, with hilarious mishaps and cultural clashes. Now exploding onto screen.”
UK sitcom classic “Ketchup” is already winning prizes
McNally is best known for his role as Joshamee in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series. He not only stars, but also directs the show. He said he was “thrilled” to be directing the series with such an amazing crew. It has that rare edge. It’s going be massive.” Dickinson is also joining him. Dickinson’s role as Trillian, in the miniseries Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy from 1981, remains a scifi classic. After winning her first ever “best actor” award, she exclaimed, “Marbella is magic!” “First red carpet award, scenes full of twists and turns, and joyous chaos.”
The first season of filming is underway, with the crew hopping between Marbella’s flashy streets to UK studios. The project, backed by Ketchup Productions Ltd. and New World Films focuses on the couple’s 1991 move from Bolton, England to Tenerife, where they had no Spanish skills, no bar knowledge, but a lot of grit. The British Guild of Travel Writers has praised their story as “hilarious and painful” but also as being “un-put-downable”. Now, the tale is used to support a coproduction that hopes to highlight Marbella’s growing movie scene.
