49 Fun Facts About Money Heist

What is Money Heist's original Spanish title?

La casa de papel means 'The House of Paper'. Netflix gave the series its English title when it re-edited and dubbed the episodes for a worldwide release in December 2017.

What is the Professor's real name in Money Heist?

Sergio Marquina is also 'Salva' Martín, the mild stranger whom the police inspector on the case meets in a bar and falls for.

Who plays the Professor in Money Heist?

Álvaro Morte came from daytime serials and spent two months auditioning; the script's Professor was about 50 and, in his words, 'more of a Coronado', after a veteran Spanish star.

Which character narrates Money Heist?

Tokyo was the writers' third try: the first draft had the Professor telling the story, the next an older gang member, before they found it worked best told by a woman.

Who plays Tokyo in Money Heist?

Úrsula Corberó was a teen-drama star in Spain before the role, which carried her to Hollywood: she made her debut there in the G.I. Joe film Snake Eyes.

The first heist in Money Heist targets which institution?

The Royal Mint of Spain is chosen because the plan is not to empty a vault but to make money: the gang means to hold out for 11 days and print €2.4 billion.

The second heist in Money Heist targets which institution?

The Bank of Spain holds the national gold reserve, which the gang sets about melting down; the raid is also meant to force the release of a captured comrade.

Hostage Alison Parker's father is which country's ambassador in Money Heist?

Britain's ambassador is her father, so of the 67 hostages Alison Parker is the one the intelligence colonel on the case most wants out: her rescue is his priority, to head off a diplomatic crisis.

How does Money Heist's gang escape the first heist?

Through a tunnel: the gang's former miner leads the digging, and they get away with €984 million of the €2.4 billion they set out to take.

The robbers in Money Heist wear masks depicting which artist?

Salvador Dalí beat Don Quixote, the other face considered: the makers found the painter more iconic and much more modern.

What colour are the robbers' jumpsuits in Money Heist?

Red is the show's signature: its makers build each series around one primary colour, and the jumpsuits went on to be worn at carnivals and protests around the world.

Which Italian clothing brand restyled the robbers' jumpsuits for part 3 of Money Heist?

Diesel's design team remade the hooded jumpsuits for the third part, and the brand then brought out its own clothing line based on the series.

Which Italian anti-fascist song recurs throughout Money Heist?

Bella ciao, the narrator explains, was taught to the Professor by a grandfather who fought the fascists in Italy; the series made it a summer hit across Europe in 2018.

Which robber is Denver's father in Money Heist?

Moscow goes into the first heist with his son beside him; he is hit by police gunfire near the end and dies before the gang gets out.

What is Money Heist's theme song?

My Life Is Going On is sung by Cecilia Krull, whose English lyrics were inspired by the first episode, where the Professor offers a lost fugitive her only way out.

At the start of Money Heist's second heist, what does the gang release over Madrid from airships?

Banknotes rain down on the city centre, and the chaos, with the army called out to contain it, gives the robbers the cover they need to get inside.

On which Spanish network did Money Heist first air in 2017?

Antena 3 showed it as 15 episodes of about 70 minutes between May and November 2017; Netflix later re-cut them into 22 shorter ones for the rest of the world.

Which Money Heist documentary did Netflix release alongside part 4 in 2020?

The Phenomenon, made with the cast and producers, asks how a series that had finished its run in Spain became Netflix's most-watched show in a language other than English.

Whose capture by Europol pulls Money Heist's gang back together for the second heist?

Rio is traced through an intercepted phone call and held illegally; the Professor launches the new raid to force the authorities to give him back.

Which earlier Álex Pina series gave Money Heist several of its writers and directors?

Locked Up (Vis a vis) shares four writers and two directors with the heist series; its makers left their old company as soon as it wrapped and took that team with them.

Which production company did Álex Pina found to make Money Heist?

Vancouver Media was set up in 2016 so that Pina and his team could work without interference; Money Heist was its first production, and an exclusive deal with Netflix followed.

A Spanish newspaper compared Money Heist's city code names to which Quentin Tarantino film?

Reservoir Dogs gave its thieves colours for names, Mr. Pink and Mr. White among them; the daily ABC went further and called the Spanish series inspired by the film.

Which character shoots Nairobi dead in part 4 of Money Heist?

César Gandía, the security chief held hostage in the second heist, breaks free and executes her during a truce; she had only just survived a police sniper's bullet.

Mónica Gaztambide takes which city name when she joins Money Heist's gang?

Stockholm suits her: she begins the first heist as a hostage, and Stockholm syndrome is the term for captives who bond with their captors, as she does on falling for one of the robbers.

After surviving Money Heist's first heist, hostage Arturo Román reinvents himself as what?

A self-help guru: he fills halls with talk of his own heroism, then gets himself taken hostage a second time, hoping to win back his former lover.

In Money Heist, who plays the Professor's older brother and second-in-command?

Pedro Alonso and his co-star invented the blood tie: the script never made the two men brothers, so the actors slipped in small hints until the writers gave way.

Which Money Heist actor came up with Denver's trademark laugh during casting?

Jaime Lorente found the laugh in his audition; the casting director said Denver 'existed as soon as' he played the part, down to the cackle he lets out in a tight spot.

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

Nairobi did not exist in the first scripts: the creator realised his gang had only one woman and rang Flores, whom he knew from an earlier series, to offer her a new part.

Helsinki and Oslo, cousins in Money Heist's gang, are army veterans from which country?

Serbia: the two fought in the Yugoslav wars and serve as the gang's soldiers and weapons experts; Oslo does not survive the first heist.

Which actress plays Inspector Raquel Murillo in Money Heist?

Itziar Ituño, who acts in Basque as well as Spanish, plays the police negotiator who falls for the man she is hunting and ends the story on his side of the law.

The actress behind Money Heist's Raquel modelled her on which film character?

Clarice Starling, the FBI trainee of The Silence of the Lambs, was her model for an inspector who is tough on criminals, messy in her family life and able to fall for her rival.

What city name does Raquel take on joining Money Heist's gang?

Lisbon becomes her name after she tracks the Professor down, a year after letting him go; in the second heist she helps him run the operation from outside.

Rodrigo de la Serna joined Money Heist in part 3 as which robber?

Palermo, real name Martín Berrote, drew up the second heist with the Professor's brother and commands it from inside; de la Serna noted the echo of Argentine striker Martín Palermo.

Najwa Nimri joined Money Heist in part 3 as which character?

Inspector Sierra takes over the case while heavily pregnant and hunts the Professor down; when she goes into labour, it is her prisoner who helps deliver her daughter.

Which footballer filmed a cameo as a monk that was at first cut from part 3 of Money Heist?

Neymar, a declared fan, plays a Brazilian monk who says he dislikes football and parties; Netflix held the scenes back until a criminal complaint against him was shelved.

At the end of Money Heist, what does the Professor hand back in place of the stolen gold?

Brass bars coated in gold: with the markets in freefall, the colonel in charge chooses to play along, because exposing the fake would wreck Spain's economy.

Which condition does Raquel's mother live with in Money Heist?

Alzheimer's disease: she writes down a phone message that would expose the Professor, then rings the man himself to pass it on. He comes to silence her, cannot go through with it, and simply deletes the message.

Where does Money Heist's gang prepare for the first heist?

A hunting estate near Toledo serves for five months as the Professor's classroom, under a rule of no real names; the scenes were shot at a farm estate in Torrelodones, outside Madrid.

Which robber begins Money Heist's second heist planted among the hostages?

Manila, a childhood friend of Denver and the godchild of his father, poses as a captive so the gang has eyes inside the group.

Tokyo begins part 3 of Money Heist hiding on an island in which country?

Panama's Guna Yala islands play the hideaway; the crew had to pick an uninhabited island, clear it and build a hut, several hours away by jeep and boat.

From what kind of vehicle do the Professor and his partner direct the opening of Money Heist's second heist?

A motorhome kept on the move lets them broadcast to the gang until a tree snaps the antenna and the wheels sink in mud; they end up in an ambulance.

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

Palawan, Philippines: she finds him there a year after the heist, by working out coordinates he had written on a set of postcards.

Which pair make off with the gold behind the Professor's back in Money Heist's final episodes?

Rafael and Tatiana, the son and former wife of the Professor's late brother, take the bars for themselves; they give them back for a promised share of the haul.

Which award did Money Heist win at the 46th International Emmys?

Best Drama Series, in 2018, was a first for Spanish television, and it went to a show made as a limited series whose run at home had already ended.

Money Heist's 2022 remake, subtitled Joint Economic Area, moves the heist to which country?

South Korea: the remake imagines a reunified Korean peninsula and stages its hostage crisis in a shared economic zone set up there, hence the subtitle.

Which Money Heist character was given a spin-off series in December 2023?

Berlin dies at the end of the first heist, so his series is a prequel: it goes back years to a €44 million jewel robbery in Paris.

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

Stranger Things was Netflix's flagship when the Spanish import, re-edited, dubbed and released with no marketing push, passed its streams in the US and worldwide.

In 2018, hackers replaced the cover image of which record-breaking YouTube video with Money Heist's masked gang?

Despacito had just passed five billion views, the most on YouTube, when attackers briefly took it down and swapped in a still of the robbers pointing guns at the camera.

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

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