Perhaps what best defines Jorgelina Aruzzi it is her admirable capacity for work, enormous creativity and fiery feminist activism. It is enough to review her recent past: before the pandemic arrived, the actress was representing “The truth”, together Juan Minujin, Valeria Lois and Hector Diaz, in the Paseo La Plaza. And had started filming “Ex married”the film by Sabrina Farjí, along with Robert Moldavsky. Although everything stopped, even in the long quarantine, he decided to manage to unleash his inexhaustible spark. From her house, where she complied with the mandatory isolation with her little daughter Ámbar, she began to generate content for her Instagram account, and created the funny character of Jacky Guzmán. A hilarious and resentful former member of the show business, who talked with figures such as Adrián Suar, Griselda Siciliani or Nancy Dupláa, live on the popular social network. “People thanked me for making them laugh,” she tells NEWS.
The current year finds her multiplied on open television, platforms, commercial and alternative theater, either in front of the cameras or behind the scenes. To begin with, in mid-February, as an author, she premiered “Thoroughbred, love is a monster”starring her great friend Griselda Sicilian, and co-directed by the singer and dancer Carlos Casella, at the Multiteatro Tabaris. An acid comedy about a girl devastated by social mandates, which generates a lot of empathy for the disaster she is experiencing and who is making a transition to find her uniqueness.
Later, it was his turn to present his monologue “The Woman in the Green Dress”, embodied by Dalia Elnecavé, and directed by fellow actress and singer Gloria Carrá, at the El Method Kairós room in Palermo. The piece was the winner of the Banco Ciudad 2021 Award and has the support of Proteatro.
News: What is “La mujer…” about?
Jorgelina Aruzzi: I wrote it two or three years ago, before the pandemic, and it is about a woman crossed by a historical event. She is immersed, like everyone else, in a system, a job, a routine and she thinks that she is far from what is happening in the world or in the country. But to her, like any of us, circumstances make us witnesses or accomplices of national or world events.
News: In what way?
Aruzzi: In this text I wanted to say that everyday life is always crossed by something bigger than what we are as a society. Whether we like it or not.
News: Did you think about starring in it?
Aruzzi: I have always written, directed and starred in my one-person shows, since my theatrical beginnings, but this happened in a different way: we went on vacation with Gloria, Dalia and Magela Zanotta. I shared the writing with them and there we shared the functions (laughs). At first it was going to be directed by Magela, who later couldn’t do it and this year I couldn’t be on stage.
News: Did the desire to interpret it remain?
Aruzzi: Do not! I am from another place that makes me learn and observe. I really like everything in the world of actors and actresses, even though I’m not on stage. I love that creation and also the possibility of being part of an entire show to tell what I feel, regardless of whether I or another actress does it.
News: Is that how “Thoroughbred” came about?
Aruzzi: In that case, it was promoted by Gri (Griselda Siciliani). She brought us together with Carlitos (Casella) with whom she had never worked. We had many conversations together and the three of us agreed to tell that story of heartbreak and how we went through it culturally as well. So I dedicated myself to writing the texts and joined the direction. It was and is a great experience.
News: How do you feel when you see these two friends?
Aruzzi: Seeing Dalia and Griselda perform phrases with feelings and ideas that I wrote, moves me, mobilizes me and drives me to continue doing it.
News: In recent years, does the prevailing discourse contain the words and voices of women?
Aruzzi: We still have to battle. In this time of historical revision we have the slogans, but when they have to be carried out they do not materialize. Not only to give more space to female voices, but also to give equal opportunities in many areas. Mainly that of sharing our affective feelings and how uncomfortable we all feel, all of us (he remarks) in a system that is still oppressive regarding how to love. If there is a point in common between these two works on the poster, it is that they speak of a social push towards something that diverts us from desire; that is, to reach what we really want and not what is imposed. Delve into the mandate of motherhood, that of romantic love and the importance of having a non-macho voice. Being a woman does not exempt you from being macho. It is a stage of great learning and the voices must be diverse to hear and see another type of desire.
Aruzzi participates in the telenovela “The First of Us”, the first original fiction produced in the country by Viacom International Studios, which is currently broadcast by Telefe, while each week’s chapters are available in advance on the Paramount+ platform. The production has a large cast, led by her and Benjamin Vicuña, Paola Krum, Luciano Castro, Damian De Santo and Mercedes Funes. It focuses on the friendship and unfinished dreams of a group of fortysomethings in crisis. Jorgelina plays Valeria Perell, a single clerk with a strong desire to become a mother.
News: How was the experience of the new Telefe strip?
Aruzzi: We started recording in the middle of a pandemic with protocols. It was a project that had been stretching because at first it was not known when and how filming could begin. Finally, it was possible to specify and make the character of the scribe who, although single, wants to be a mother. She loved and moved me equally. It is very moving to bet on a topic like this, because there are women who do not want to be mothers and it is totally respectable. The story itself is strong, but contains the humor. In another order, the cast was a pleasure, since I did not know many of them from work and we ended up friends. he
