Flamenco actress and dancer, at some time she was a driver to “pure chemistry.” Owner of a trajectory integrated by remembered cycles such as “I am a gypsy”, “They are loves” and “champions of life”, Laura Azcurra It is submerged in full theatrical activity. Walk the country with the show “Frida Kahlo Long live life”a unipersonal written by Mexican playwright Humberto Robles and directed by Laura Morgado.
In a well -deserved pause between constant hustle and intense traveling through the extensive Argentine geography, Laura Azcurra takes a repairing coffee to chat with news about this present without dead times and without place for boredom.
News: What is the experience of turning around the country with Frida Kahlo?
Laura Azcurra: It is beautiful, many years ago I wanted to travel by theater in different places in Argentina. I am very Buenos Aires, I love Buenos Aires, but I was very anchored to the city. First because my frame son who is already 18 years old was growing and also because I was doing “Toc Toc” for seven years, in that success we did in the multiteatro. The opportunity of a format like that of this work, which is a monologue, is ideal to turn, I think we have to continue doing theater every time it is possible.
News: It is the first time that a historical character has to embody, did that intimidate her a little at the beginning?
Azcurra: Yes, because he is such a global and dear character! It is a challenge and facing it with great respect is a way of honoring the woman so impressive that she was. Obviously I was intimidated and a little still intimidates me to be Frida because it is very powerful, there are many emotions and a very lived life full of suffering and love. It is intense and beautiful that she has allowed us to show that vulnerability, I think that is what we most admire. In the work this Frida speaks to the dead and the living, remember their trips, the link with Diego Rivera, quotes many people and shows his side of actress making the voices of all those characters.
News: Do we discover the Frida actress on stage?
Azcurra: She was very theater, extremely charismatic, there was something acting that was part of her personality, I discovered it as we were investigating and documented about her life and her work. The public empathizes a lot with Frida.
News: He mentioned that his son is already 18 years old and is a boyfriend. What is it in your mother -in -law?
Azcurra: Divine! (series). I think I am a good vibes, I also integrate all the people that Marco brings home, they are good guys, it helps me to see that new generation closely. I learn all the time of Marco, it is my great teacher, I enjoy that I am bigger and we can share at the same time.
News: What is it like to be a young man of 18 at this time?
Azcurra: It is challenging, you need a lot of listening. It is essential to understand that times always change, they happened to us with our old people with our grandparents. On the one hand we have to aggiornar ourselves in certain issues and on the other, connect with our roots. I do not say it in the most conservative sense, but in the roots as a livelihood to be able to accompany the values of what is really important in life: knowing how to love, respect, listen to the need of the other, work anguish and sadness when there are things that do not come out as we expect and understand that this is also part of the learning. I feel that parents are learning all the time and need to let ourselves be permeated by what is coming, but also leave a legacy, there are fundamental things that support a person’s axis. Being there wishing the good of the other although sometimes it is not exactly what you want for your future, accompanying what mobilizes our children from love, health and passion seems important to me.
News: Marco inherited the artistic vein or is it on the other hand?
Azcurra: It is in the CBC of Agronomy. Let’s see what happens. He is a graduate of Esnaola who is a music training school. He is looking for his own destiny, we come from a family of artists. I accompany it wherever I go, if you want to be scientist, mathematician, astronaut or musician there we will be.
News: You started your career at age 15 in the Eliseo movie Subiela “Dispute love.” Since then, the medium changed a lot?
Azcurra: Yes, very flatly. Now the focus is on the other hand, they are chosen to tell other things, before the content was more formative and educational, in addition to entertainment there was debate and was our wonderful Argentine fiction in a preponderant place. Since the time of Samuel Yankelevich he first supported the radio with the readioteatros, to the television fictions and our film industry with a very important audiovisual growth. In that sense, Argentina had a very interesting peak that was diluted. I had the joy of sharing it being a theatrical training actress who found a way of telling stories and a source of work on television, that no longer exists.
News: How do we get to this?
Azcurra: Unfortunately, I accept that at this time we must assume the agony of air television, production and the public moved to the platforms. We can discuss whether the person responsible for that was the system, the fact that the producers did not want to continue betting on doing Argentine fiction or now works otherwise. All I know is that there are incredible people in the audiovisual who continues to do wonderful things, but in other areas. It has not been possible to find a way to continue growing the industry on air television, at this time everything that decides to count are tragedies, morbidity, anguish and crumble other people’s lives. I do not explain what happened to the training, with the information, that is decimated, it is sad. There is a whole generation that does not know or light television, they are only with their cell phones and tablets, they may not imagine what it was to meet with the family to see together a program. We are standing in another paradigm.
News: He mentioned that success that was “Toc Toc.” Did that give you financial stability to self -manage your shows?
Azcurra: The economy of an artist is always very unstable and I learned that surfing that instability is part of the work, I had a lifetime. Those seven years of “Toc Toc” organized me a little, but I did not become a millionaire, that would not be precisely the title of the note (we laugh) always the workers of art we are juggling, it is a trade that requires you to be prudent.
News: You are part of the Argentine Actresses collective who closely accompanied Thelma Fardín in the trial and condemns Juan Darthés. In his case he also started working being very small, how was his experience?
Azcurra: I lived it closely with a lot of professionalism because I saw how my old woman unfolded with her laburo and my old man in the theater, understanding very well what the roles of each one are in their places. My mom was a makeup artist, characterizing, she talked a lot in cinema and my dad was dedicated to theater, teaching and the staging of very large things such as national folkloric ballet. They have advised me and I have always been very professional, but knowing that everything has colored mirrors. Thanks to my training and being clear that, I feel that I could sail very difficult waters understanding that what happens on the surface is not reality in depth. Then the roles of abuse of power and hierarchies obviously saw them and suffered them as it happens in all the works, I am not telling you anything new. Perhaps our laburo is more exposed, but it happens to most women in all areas.
News: Is there a lot to change?
Azcurra: We are moving forward, before you were naturalized things that could not be carried out today. We are trying to make it visible to turn it, be able to recognize when a certain treatment does not correspond or when a joke is not a joke. We live an awkward moment, especially for many men who question how to be courteous and approach a woman properly. I feel that there is a paradigm shift that asks us to listen to us, to transmit what we need and respect ourselves as people.
