When he was a teenager, his dad, actor Ricardo Díaz Moulle, proposed a deal: “We are going to watch Yankees films, but then we have to go to Lorca or the cinema alfil and discover the others.” Julieta Díaz It is the perfect synthesis of that pact. Prestigious and popular, reckless explorer of cinema, theater and television, queen of melodrama without falling into the abyss, a beloved face of Argentine cinema, flows from the mainstream to the indie with the naturalness of its gestures.
His godager in the godmother, fearsome narco chief in “Gatillero”the Western Conurbano of Cris Tapia Marchiori, but just a few weeks ago he also headed the last film by Marcos Carnevale, “Heart Delator” next to Benjamín Vicuña. And while preparing his next July 19 show in Café Berlin with Diego Presa with Carolina Flechner, drummer you will give me a thousand children, guitarist Nahuel Roth and bassist Juan Ravioli, where they will present their two albums and also several new songs, throbs his return to the stage. It will be in Maipo, where Adrián Suar will debut as theater director with an Argentine work starring actresses. How many hours do Julieta Díaz have? The ones she wants, we accompany her.
News: This film is not called “Sicario”, that already made Benicio del Toro. His name is “Gatillero”, is such an Argentine title a declaration of principles?
Julieta Díaz: Some of this happened to me. Do you remember when people said: “I don’t look at Argentine cinema”? Some people prefer to feel identified with another identity. I consume cinema from the United States, European, Latin American, everywhere, but looking at our stories is important. “Gatillero” is filmed in sequence plane, it is pure independent cinema, it has an impressive force, an impeccable made and a total commitment.
News: His character, godmother, is a woman who holds power, women often embody care and love in fictions. How to escape the villain of Formula?
Díaz: You saw that if a woman is bad it is more bad than anyone! (laughs) In this case, he is a narco boss who inherits that Know How of his father. What I liked about this movie is that it is not one of those stories with drug dealers, here the interesting thing is that the threads are seen. And the people of the neighborhood are as protagonists.
News: In this film he works with his father, Ricardo Díaz Moullele. I know that he is happening a complicated health moment, how was his partner?
Díaz: We work several times together, in cinema and in theater, it is always very beautiful to work with my dad. The first thing I did was the series “tímar” and was going to do it with him, then he could not and his character went to another actor. 30 years have passed and I remember how he prepared for me for casting!
News: Strong start with “low tide.” Alejandro Urdapillata, Leo Sbaraglia, Germán Palacios, Patricio Contreras, were all! The true cult series.
Díaz: Nothing less! An advanced director Fernando Spiner, because at that time making a 4 -chapter miniseries, a rarely, thriller was crazy. They gave us the schedule of Monday at 11 p.m. on Channel 9, it was to send us to died, it saw few people at that time, but ten years later that strip became the prime time of the series.
News: Recently, Ariana Harwicz was news because the film based on his novel “Matate Amor” competed in Cannes. You did a work by Harwicz, “Early”, which demanded to put the body. How did he go through her?
Díaz: I entered the work for a while and was dragging, then Valeria Lois continued that that character was going to do from the beginning, but could not and Lorena Vega, who was the director, called me. I loved the proposal, I fell in love with the novel. It happened that in a moment my daughter was shot an epilepsy and “early” was amazing, but as I was in front of difficult circumstances, the work screwed up. At that moment I filmed in Uruguay and I returned because they had admitted my daughter after suffering a very strong crisis, from the hospital I went to the theater and I couldn’t.
News: I need to tell him that despite what the president expresses, when someone has a child with disabilities, it is not a family problem but of public health.
Díaz: It is that the world is armed for those who can everything, even socially, not just physically. There is a lot of cruelty, perversity and psychopateada in some things. The disability area was not good, with other governments it was also a precarious sector, there were always problems. But the idea was supposed to improve what did not work. That was also the subject of Incaa, right? Corruption must be sanitized, not being able to fire a person who works in the state is a total ridicule, there was much to improve, but I do not see what is happening. There is also corruption in the private sector, not only in state. Beyond the supporter, because it is already quite unleashed from everyone, someone has to govern. I wish a movement arose that took the best of each … I know that I look like the song “Imagine” (laughs).
News: Eye, Lennon would say “I can be a dreamer, but I’m not the only one”
Díaz: Something has to happen, now I have the feeling that it is like telling a patient with cancer: “Look, we are going to kill you directly because otherwise it is very complicated.” Not so, you have to solve, not destroy the few things that pointed to any solution, it is painful. The other day I saw a very interesting post, he said: “Retirees are a work, disability is a work, universities are a work, culture is a work, children with cancer are a work, hospitals are a curro, but $ Libra is not, it is a venture to enhance small investments in Argentina.” An extraordinary synthesis, don’t make me eat glass.
News: He mentioned INCAA and this year we didn’t have a single Argentine feature film at the Cannes Festival. The sector is practically standing, only 8 fiction films were announced now that will receive support from the Institute. How can we get out of this situation?
Díaz: It is very sad, but I feel that if we do not make a mea guilt, we do not recognize from the inside that there were failed efforts and institutional responsibility, we were wrong. If we fight and say: “In the Incaa there was no problem, they are a bitch children, they threw them out so many people!” … Be careful, perhaps some employees did not go to work, many things happened. So I am not going to allow me to tell me that I am because I defend the Incaa or that I am from the counter because I recognize that there were problems. It is also necessary to speak of the corrupt of white glove, do not take us for idiots. I have seen many people speaking pests of what is happening with culture, but without doing an analysis on how we let them destroy or corrupted without doing anything. I do not say it is easy or accuse anyone, but nothing changes making us bullshit. You have to look at the full photo and see how we can get ahead because this is an industry that moves.
News: You are a great interpreter in acting and in music. What is the best thing to interpret?
Díaz: Meet the same. I like to think, although perhaps pretentious, to interpret without judging is the deepest, most spiritual part of our work, that place where in the end we all want us to love us, we all want to lose fears, most people feel the same things. That fascinates me, understanding that in the back something in the mirror happens.
