Actor, comedian and singer, Alfredo Casero He is the kind of artist who does not need extensive introductions or long presentations. Faithful to his principles, ideals and convictions, he is not shy when it comes to expressing his opinions, he takes risks and is willing to pay the consequences.
News: What will the farewell be like? “Cha Cha Cha” What will happen at the Movistar Arena near the end of the year?
Alfredo Casero: “Cha Cha Cha” is a concept that is already part of people’s heritage and now I am seeing a younger audience that follows us like an otaku (laughs), they are hooked by their parents. Notice that most of us did very well, beyond Fabio Alberti and me, who are with this show, Capusotto works a lot, Vivian El Jaber came to Hollywood! It is a joy to see the people who worked with one like this, for me it is an important achievement. Returning to what we will do at the Movistar Arena, it is something that is on another level, it has choreography, a band, dancers, we don’t put together anything, I give a lot of attention to music, think that I had a band called Halibour Fiberglass Sereniders in which Javier Malosetti, Lito Epumer, Cristian Judurcha played, it was a milestone. At the Movistar Arena we are going to have a very good band, there will also be Tano Ranni and maybe Alacrán who is living in the United States will also come. It is a happiness to be able to do it in an area where no one is going to say no to you; All those who told me no on television are already retired.
News: Can’t you go back to television like Mario Pergolini?
Home: Pergolini said that television was dead and I believe that is true. The channels, the people who work in the medium, the producers, they are all complicated. I haven’t worked for thirteen years, I worked once in a Suar program, “El Host”, and I was only in two films, so I went out to do shows in modest spaces, we had no chance of something big. And not because of lack of public, but because of the cancellation. I have a collection of Alfredo Casero Cancelado, Salta, Tucumán, Córdoba…
News: Who canceled it, the media or Kirchnerism?
Home: Kirchnerism. In fact, it is so true that the Argentine Association of Actors sent a letter everywhere, they read it to me when I went to do a casting in Spain. It is a pimping network where some people work, those who are friends. When I came out to say that I was voting for Adorni, two theaters told me no, this micro-militancy continues breaking the eggs. Be careful, it doesn’t come from above but from a simple pimp who has me angry, unfortunately it was a cycle of thirteen years stick and stick.
News: You could also say that you now have a great present and Cristina is imprisoned…
Home: (Laughs) I already finished what I wanted, simply for justice to exist for all of society. You can’t do just anything, you come to Corrientes Street on a Monday at seven in the afternoon and there are people lying around hogging in an aggressive manner, I say the things that seem wrong to me, to whomever it may concern. I hope that the City Government urgently changes everything because the smell of ass in the street is terrible, not to mention women, children and dogs lying on the sidewalk. Before that was unthinkable, it is a pretty shitty management, there is a lot of dirt, if we live here and do our best, is it too much to ask for it to be reflected in some way? I don’t think so.
News: A curiosity, is your name Alfredo after Alfredo Palacios?
Home: My name is Alfredo because yes, I have no idea. But I’m going to find out! (laughs) With the names we are like this: Nazareno was chosen by his mother, I saw Minerva’s face and said: “You are Minerva.” They are both clear that self-management is the most important thing, that is the spirit of all of us. Minerva has now also gotten into music, she releases her album, invests and starts making her own productions, she has an incredible level in everything, she works outside and is an excellent actress. My two children have much more discipline than me, but the truth is that the people who worked with me are sweet, I’m talking about technicians, directors, the team with which you interact every day. The same thing happens with Nazareno, he is an upright kid, a hard worker, they love him, he doesn’t arrive anywhere late. All walking the same path, starting from the bottom. And we are preparing my oldest grandson! He works with us in the theater, it’s the stage, he is 19 years old and he works very well. With “Cha Cha Cha” there is so much love from the public! They hug you and we go down to the audience to say thank you to them. They have been banking on us for thirty years.
News: I see that the link is better with the people than with the media. When the famous incident with Majul happened, did you feel used?
Home: Look, I’m very sorry for having gone through that ordeal. But hey, it happens with all professions, being Dr Rímolo is not the same as Favaloro, now if the neurosurgeons endorse Rímolo we are opening the door for them to screw us. There are a lot of very good journalists, but they are very tired, very hanged, both in television and in print, because that way of doing journalism is disappearing. Sometimes I hear embarrassing people trying to convince you that you are irresponsible, that you are a son of a bitch, the dead man is scared of having his throat cut. They are not going to convince me of anything, I am not just an actor, I have been in business all my life. It’s not that we smoked a cigarette and went out to work, I know what it’s like to really work. In fact, with “Cha Cha Cha” we did a very complex and successful job… Until Tinelli arrived and broke everything.
News: It took a lot of work to make the public believe that they were free spirits
Home: Miles Davis said that the hardest thing about making music was making people believe you were improvising. We must not forget it, those actors who say: “I don’t feel anything in a love scene” without realizing it kill an illusion, destroy a myth. The same thing when you play a drunk or a drug addict, the interpretation has to be present, I have never drunk alcohol in my life and I was a father at a very young age, I was not going to spend my money on groceries (laughs) My children were my best investment, now that I am old I feel like I have more than what I need.
News: He created a small stir with his statements about Julio Chávez and “Farsantes”. I think you apologized to him, right?
Home: In reality I should never have said what I said, but in “Farsantes” we had a very bad time, I had a terrible time and with a lot of pain, because it was the last big job I had in Polka. Working at Polka was like being on a university campus, you stopped to have breakfast, to eat, to rest, people couldn’t live better, but the employees themselves drowned that out by inflating their balls. If you feed 150 people as if they were kings and three of them fight because there are no dishes for vegans, there comes a time when you rot, that’s how the production company fell. Everything is a topic, the unions, Actors… in parentheses to Actors who loves to send letters, he sent one saying that I was almost a Nazi for putting the last recovered grandchild on trial because he was in his sixties and had appeared in photos inaugurating a tap…
News: Maybe there you know that you are getting involved with a very sensitive issue like that of the missing and the recovered grandchildren.
Home: The missing people or the recovered grandchildren have nothing to do with it. Do you know what Human Rights are for? To protect the people from the State, which is the first victim of people. What are you doing from the government attacking me because I don’t think like you? You become a political force when you should be absolutely neutral, that seems unfair to me. Because there are many people who need to be protected without being a Kirchnerist, what happens is that I issued an opinion on issues that no one gets involved in. When Cabandié happened they wanted to kill me! Luckily he also fell, a kid who when he was an official always made shit, Corrientes caught fire and I had to go out to get donations, we collected forty tons of things thanks to the people who helped. Meanwhile, Nelson Castro said not to bring food or medicine, I don’t know if in his life he has seen a field fire with all the fences burned and the animals completely injured…then he goes to the war between Russia and Ukraine to say: “Turn off the camera, this is the darkness of kyiv”, what tremendous nonsense! Journalism is there to shed light on the facts, not to show the darkness. It’s an insult to my intelligence, I’m tired of it.
News: What tires you?
Home: This television where only four or five people who are the new stars work. Guys who come in with ideals and end up wearing cheap shoes with crappy pants, you see how they change and start going to the barber four times a day. I never asked nor will I ask for anything, I swear on my life.
