50 Fun Facts About Money Heist

What is Money Heist's original Spanish title?

It translates literally as 'The House of Paper'.

Who created Money Heist?

He and director Jesús Colmenar set up Vancouver Media to make it.

Who plays the Professor?

Producers had first pictured a 50-year-old Harvard type resembling José Coronado.

Which character narrates the series?

Úrsula Corberó's voice is the first the audience hears.

Who plays Tokyo?

Producers had first wanted an older actress with nothing to lose.

The first heist targets which institution?

The gang plans to stay inside for 11 days printing money.

The second heist targets which institution?

The goal this time is gold, and rescuing Rio.

How many hostages are taken inside the Mint?

The gang planned to stay 11 days.

How much money do the robbers escape with from the Mint?

Their original target was €2.4 billion over 11 days.

The robbers wear masks depicting which artist?

Don Quixote was considered and discarded as the alternative.

What colour are the robbers' jumpsuits?

The red echoed the yellow prison uniforms of Pina's earlier show Locked Up.

Which Italian clothing brand restyled the jumpsuits for part 3?

It also launched a clothing line inspired by the series.

Which Italian anti-fascist song recurs throughout the series?

It became a summer hit across Europe in 2018.

Which writer brought the Italian partisan song to the show?

He had been listening to it at home to cheer himself up.

Who sings the theme song My Life Is Going On?

Manel Santisteban composed it; Krull wrote English lyrics.

The title sequence shows the series' settings rendered in what material?

A nod to the 'House of Paper' title.

On which Spanish network did the series originally air in 2017?

Its 15 episodes ran from May to November 2017.

Into how many episodes did Netflix re-cut the original 15?

The Netflix episodes ran around 50 minutes each.

What was the series' working title during conception?

It means 'The Evicted'.

Which earlier Pina prison drama did many of the creative team come from?

Alba Flores and Najwa Nimri had both starred in it.

What is the name of Pina and Colmenar's production company?

Money Heist was its first project.

Spanish newspaper ABC compared the city code names to which Tarantino film?

That film used colour-based code names.

Which two characters did writers first try as narrator before choosing Tokyo?

The first five lines of the pilot took a month to write.

Roughly how many script versions did the pilot go through?

Later scripts were finished once a week to keep pace with filming.

Which actor was offered the Professor but was committed to the film Campeones?

Casting directors then pushed for Álvaro Morte.

From which long-running soap did the casting directors know the Professor's actor?

His prime-time experience was limited at the time.

Who plays the Professor's brother, the gang's leader inside the Mint?

The Professor–Berlin family link was added at Morte and Alonso's suggestion.

Which actor developed Denver's trademark laugh during casting?

Lorente also starred in Elite.

Alba Flores was asked to play which robber without an audition?

Pina realised late on that the gang needed another woman.

Moscow's actor had starred in which 2005 Pina series?

Moscow is Denver's father in the show.

Itziar Ituño plays which police inspector?

She later joins the gang as Lisbon.

Ituño drew inspiration for Raquel from which film character?

She saw parallels in an FBI student with a messy family life.

What alias does Raquel adopt when she joins the gang?

Mónica Gaztambide becomes Stockholm.

Which Argentine actor joined in part 3 as Palermo?

He noted the name's link to football legend Martín Palermo.

Najwa Nimri joined in part 3 as which character?

She gives birth to a daughter named Victoria in part 5.

Which footballer filmed a cameo as a monk that was initially cut from part 3?

The scenes were restored after legal charges against him were dropped.

Which three colours were forbidden in the production design?

Red was the signature colour against grey sets.

Which institution's headquarters stood in for the Royal Mint's exterior?

Producers liked its passing resemblance to the Mint.

Where was the robbers' hunting-estate hideout filmed?

In the story the estate is in the Toledo countryside.

Which newspaper's printing presses were used for the money-printing scenes?

The scenes were shot at its Torrejón de Ardoz plant.

In which country was the robbers' island hideout for part 3 filmed?

Preparing the uninhabited island took hours of material transport.

Netflix's first European production hub, used from part 3, is in which town near Madrid?

The new set was three times the size of the parts 1–2 set.

Where do Raquel and the Professor reunite at the end of part 2?

She finds the coordinates on postcards he left her.

How many household accounts streamed part 3 in its first week, per Netflix?

44 million had watched within the first month.

Which award did the show win at the 46th International Emmys?

It was praised for trying to innovate Spanish television.

The South Korean remake carries which subtitle?

It was released in two parts in 2022.

Which character got a direct spin-off in December 2023?

Pedro Alonso, Itziar Ituño and Najwa Nimri all reprised roles.

Which US series did Money Heist surpass in streams in April 2018?

Netflix then signed a global overall deal with Pina.

Which Paris wax museum added statues of the robbers in 2018?

Their costumes were also worn at the Rio Carnival.

Which video game hosted a Money Heist in-game event on its Bank map?

Hostages on the Bank map wore the show's outfits.