Being an artist is your cover letter. “I have the heart of an artist, the look, the depth, the madness and the sensitivity of an artist,” he says. cecilia milone. She also says that she has the soul of a teenager and that allows her to continue playing and displaying her art in her different facets: singer, actress, author, director.
Right now he is planning to say goodbye. She is saying goodbye to “Dracula the Musical” —now with the addition of the word Farewell— the most important success he had in his career. The show, created by Pepe Cibrian and Angel Mahler and premiered at Luna Park in 1991, with several seasons here and abroad, is touring the country and has performances scheduled for October 6, 7 and 8 at Movistar Arena in the City of Buenos Aires.
The actress once again represents Mina, her emblematic character, and heads the cast with Juan Rodo Y Josephine Scaglioneamong others. Married for five years to Nito Artaza, the actress says that she is in a moment of peace and fullness, that marriage improved them both and that they hope to confirm their vows in 2024 to drive away the dreaded itch of the seventh year .
News: What are your strengths?
Cecilia Milone: I am a person of faith and that gives me extra strength, but my greatest strength is lashing out at my weaknesses. I face my fears and my pains, I observe my weaknesses, I don’t block them, I don’t deny them.
News: And what are its weaknesses?
Milone: Sometimes I put too much heart. Showing some softness in a world so strong and so voracious makes you lose your place, but then my strength rescues me. I am to collapse and get up. When I am very distressed or going through a grieving or loss process, it seems that it is the end of my life. And suddenly my strong part lifts me up. yesI am like my own wounded child and my own mother.
News: In addition to faith, who does he lean on?
Milone: I rely on endearing affections, which are my friends. Today my family is my friends, my husband’s family and four or five relatives. But I rely on myself a lot. I am very resilient. At the age of 19, due to a situation between my parents, I was left in charge of my house, my mother and my finances. That got me used to it. Sometimes when I’m sad, I wish I didn’t have that stronger protective figure, but it made me stronger. I am a survivor. It was either that or die.
News: When he was 22 years old, he found out that he had a sister — his father’s daughter — and he only met her when he was 47. How did such news impact your life and what is their current relationship like?
Milone: Today we are sisters. In that meeting each one brought the best of dad and that was very beautiful, we already knew the bad. Dad’s big mistake was depriving us of that brotherhood for so long. And we grew and strengthened our bond and it is very impressive how today we are sisters. We have similar ways of treating animals, similar ideals, even things in our humor.
News: What do you see when you look in the mirror?
Milone: I see everything, I dare to look. I am very brave. I recognize myself, I see the scared or hurt teenager I was, the powerful young woman who was encouraged to give the Dracula auditions and I see the adult woman who has joy, strength, but who has lost the shine of innocence. Looking at that is much more resounding than looking at a wrinkle.
News: Are you satisfied with the person you are and with the life you have built so far?
Milone: One always has to have a balance of conformity and non-conformity to continue improving, dreaming and being an entrepreneur of one’s own life. LWhat makes me happier is that I gave that sad teenager who was half lost the life she wanted to have and more than she dreamed of. And that makes me feel really good about myself.
News: How is this moment of your life?
Milone: Very full, it is probably the most peaceful moment in my entire history. It is something that we rescued with Nito. The two of us have achieved a peace that we highly value at our ages. The feeling that in my house there is no danger, that there is emotional security. I lived in a family home with a lot of emotional insecurity, a lot of bombardment between my parents. And having this fullness allows me to enjoy my life much more in general.
News: How do they get along together?
Milone: Very well, we complement each other. We are both night owls, we have similar tastes in training and food, and we share our home with family and friends. That also strengthens us.
News: And when do they have to work together?
Milone: It’s where we argue the most. There appears the discipline of one, the organization of the other and, on the other hand, we are two very powerful creative heads and that is where the confrontations are. A friend of ours says that we both say the same thing. So, sometimes, to reach an agreement we need discussion.
News: Did the marriage benefit them?
Milone: Yes, we are much better together than apart. It benefited us as a couple and as individuals. Nito says that I linked him to his children, it is not like that, he was always linked. He is terrible, he calls each of his children three hundred times a day, he is aware of everything. What I did was organize it, and the same thing happened to me with my emotional environment.
News: Did you not have children by personal choice?
Milone: When I dreamed of having children with Nito, it was a very uncomfortable moment between us. Although he was already separated, it was a process that was not yet fully accepted by him perhaps. When you love someone so much, you feel that a child is the culmination of that love, but the adversity of everything else and having an adverse family history, that also made me withdraw. Then life passed, but it did not remain as a wound or as a pending issue. When something doesn’t happen, I accept it and release it. And I know how to say goodbye, I know how to say goodbye.
News: Speaking of goodbyes, Dracula’s goodbye is going through. What is it like to do this work that he premiered in ’91 and that he did at other times in his life?
Milone: It is a very strong and very rare experience. I am also in the process of farewell. I had a beautiful conversation with Ángel Mahler, where I told him that if Dracula was ever made again, I would never do it again. Mina is the character of my youth, I dragged and brought her, but I feel like I have to drop her for the character of adulthood to appear and I want to leave her in a sublime moment. She is an endearing character and she has so much of me. She has that courage, that purity, that innocence that I had at 22 years old and that I still have. Mina taught me to put on makeup, to wear heels, capes, to go down stairs without looking. We did together. I was the muse of Pepe (Cibrián) but I was also my own muse.
News: Have you ever thought about making your career abroad?
Milone: No, not at all. It wasn’t something I worked on, something I worked hard on. It has not been a dream. Yes, I would love it if I get a job abroad, singing tango in Japan, for example. I find it fantastic, but go back and forth. I never saw myself succeeding in another country.
News: Nito did not transmit the political vocation?
Milone: No, nothing, it’s not my thing. My political vocation is to be such an artist. That makes him understand his political vocation. Because an artist can never stop being an artist. He can’t help but try to make the world better. He needs to produce sensations and well-being.
News: And why is he an artist?
Milone: Because I had no other choice. Because I am an artist. I didn’t choose it.
