In the bar on the corner of the Gaumont Cinema where he is going to present “The Desmardero”directed by Eduardo Pinto, where he shares the bill with Luciano Caceres, the waiter looks at him attentively and turns around until he dares to ask him: “What is your name?”, “Diego”, “But the last name is Cremonesi, right? How great El Cuis! And he leaves humming “The party is over, Piñata.” Because this actor from La Plata who rowed it for years in theaters, underground bars and events since he rose to popularity in “The Marginal” didn’t stop anymore. They all want it, it gives everything.
It was Roque, Lanzani’s brother, in “A rooster for Aesculapius”the prosecutor of “Monsoon”the son-in-law of “The Tiger Veron”burst in “Kryptonite”the guy who set the screen on fire in “Red” and a hallucinated soldier in “Santa Evita”. Soon we will see him embody a psychiatrist in “Misfit” (Paramount+) already a political bishop in “December 2001” (Star+).
But he will also be a bandoneon player in “Bye Buenos Aires”a family man in the film “own themes”a social worker in the independent film “Rhinoceros” and Rodolfo Walsh in the series “1956”. But before that frantic journey, today is our interviewee in NEWS.
News: You have previously worked with director Eduardo Pinto, but you are always involved in many projects. Why did you say yes to “El desarmadero”?
Diego Cremonesi: It is a film made very lung, it was filmed in 10 days. They are those almost guerrilla projects with which I feel identified. Because my training was in independent theater and there you have to do with what isn’t there, carry out an artistic act despite everything. Working with Eduardo and his brother Pablo is always a pleasure, I respect and love them, it is working with friends. I like genre cinema a lot to act. It seems to me that it generates artistic excuses so that the actors can expressively do some things that would be impossible in a more formal film. It amuses me to play with the monstrous.
News: You starred in the best episode of Santa Evita. That soldier obsessed with Evita’s body turned into a doll that he hides in his house, treads squarely on the fantastic. How did the horror of that story work?
cremonesi: For me the series was a very big challenge, I felt that a lot of trust was placed in me and I wanted to live up to such a product but above all a story so relevant to Argentines. I try to get away from the ideological when I act, because as an actor you need to empathize in some way with what you are dealing with.. At the moment of acting, I immerse myself in the sea of contradictions that a character like that poses to me. It was very easy to fall into a commonplace but at the same time I had the challenge of trying to understand that madness.
News: Madness must be one of the hardest things for an actor to play without going off the deep end, right?
Cremonesi: Madness is complex, it does not have a single facet. As a spectator I like things to challenge me and offer me a complete perspective, I’m not interested in having the world explained to me. So when a monster like this arrives, I think about how I defend him, I try to get into his personal and family dynamics. You have to dive in and find a level of darkness within yourself that makes it possible for something like this to happen.
News: In the film “Temas propios” he shares the cast with Noelia Vergini, his partner for years. How was that job?
cremonesi: Very funny because her character is a girlfriend that I’m starting to meet and we’ve been together for 16 years. Then suddenly I start singing love songs to her, I play cute… a beautiful game. The filming was right in the middle of the puerperium stage, our baby was just born, it was an incredible family experience.
News: He played El Zurdo, a violent and extremely incorrect character in “Entre hombres”, which borders on black comedy. That was a very cult series that was quickly taken down from HBOMax, what do you think of that?
cremonesi: “Entre hombres” for me will always be an unforgettable work. I don’t know why it was downloaded and I’m very sorry because it’s a great series. I think that at this moment they are trying to be politically correct with various issues and sometimes that ends up not being the best, Because when you try to make a thought and a way of seeing things in a literal way clear from fiction, you are necessarily going to have to start making more and more pamphleteering products. Sometimes one is the piece of an engine that is at the service of telling a story that transcends you and deserves to be told.
News: Tremendous was his scene in “Rojo”, the film by Benjamín Naishtat for which he won the Silver Condor for Best Supporting Actor. That start with his character was so good that he set the bar very high for the rest of the film. Is that an example that there are no boy characters in the movies?
cremonesi: There are no small roles in the cinema, because in all situations one can explore and go further.. Here the credit belonged to the director. He gave that scene a dedication that is unusual because that moment had to bounce off the viewer’s head throughout the film. There I was able to work with one of my favorite actors, Alfredo Castro. The profession gave me the opportunity to work with great actors like Alfredo, who has dazzled me since Tony Manero, also with Claudio Rissi and Roly Serrano among many other dear colleagues from whom I learn a lot.
News: The waiter attests that they still recognize him for his character in “El Marginal”, how many times do they sing “the night ended, piñata”?
cremonesi: (laughs) What a beautiful character! He is the one who gave me a real highlight, until that moment he had only done bowling on television, I appeared 40 seconds in all the soap operas of the last few years until El Cuis arrived. “El Marginal” was a tremendously popular product and that brought me recognition from the public. I play a lot with comedy, I try to defy the ridiculous.
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