with the prizes Martin Fierro weeks away—the ceremony is scheduled for May 18 at the Hilton Hotel and will be broadcast on Telefe—, the chroniclers take advantage of each intersection with middle figures to extract an opinion from them. TO Alfredo Casero They asked him and Casero responded as always: without filters and without much respect for the conventions of the artistic world.
In dialogue with the program The Always Professionalsthe actor told what he did with the statuettes he accumulated during his career. The response was as unexpected as it was characteristic: “I have a Martín Fierro. I threw another one in the sea in Puerto Madryn, because a friend of mine died and nothing, I gave it to him”. Puerto Madryn, the Patagonian city where Casero found refuge away from the Buenos Aires environment, was the scene of this intimate and theatrical gesture.
Asked if it bothered him not to appear in the APTRA shortlists, he was blunt: “I never stopped being grateful that they chose me, it doesn’t bother me that they didn’t choose me, it doesn’t bother me that I’m not on a shortlist”. An indifference that, coming from someone who threw a prize into the Atlantic, sounds completely coherent.
But the sharpest thing came later, when Casero took the opportunity to take aim at the current state of Argentine television. “Today everything that was good was distorted. They absolutely killed beauty, they put an end to acted television, they put an end to actors and ways of acting”he sentenced.
