Leonora Balcarce One of those terrifying moments has just passed, as he defines theatrical premieres, in which the theater goes black, he listens to the audience’s breathing and his nerves seem to win the battle. Until he walks out onstage and reconfirms that yes, that is where he wants to be. In “Don’t go with love or without it” (Paseo La Plaza), a work by Norman Briskywhere she is directed by her friend Romina Richieshare poster with Lucilla Mangone and it is played with a book that was never on the commercial circuit.
The week before the debut, Covid got in the way and he had to suspend the last rehearsals. Things that happen in life and also on stage. “Theater is like that, there is one’s body, you have to solve it at the moment, if it doesn’t come out you have to move on. The theater is literally alive”, he assures.
News: The concept of power appears in the work. What was it like messing with something that crosses so much the human?
Leonora Balcarce: It is a text that says from the absurd. It is, above all, the story of a woman, who is my role, who is very afraid of being alone, of going out to see the world and face the street; she has a son who has problems, he can’t see the world and he can’t live alone. And the character of Lucila, she is her employee, she is everything to her, someone who gives her affection, she is a support. And when Lucila’s character decides to leave, she realizes that she is going to be left alone and does everything possible so that she doesn’t leave her. And later, when the other one comes back with a lot of experiences, she also wants to go out and we have to see if she can. It is difficult to make people laugh, but the work is grotesque in itself, and it will also leave you thinking.
News: There is a power struggle between the exhibition and the performance. You have been working since you were a child, has that relation of forces changed for you?
Balcarce: Whenever I made contact with the media it was to talk about some work. I never had a conflictive relationship, I mean, I need people to see this movie or this play, it’s part of the process. I was never very interested nor do I feel comfortable telling anything that has to do with my personal life.
News: In life, is it to surrender to what is happening or resist some things?
Balcarce: When I was younger I was more of a grumblingbut part of growing up is realizing that things happen, there is no other choice but to be in what is happening and live it… and you have to try to do the best you can and try to give those who are there the best you can. around.
News: It seems that he did a great internal job, to tame his own beast.
Balcarce: I did a lot of therapy and I also suppose that the years have to do with starting to try to be nicer to myself, to others, I don’t know if it works out the same for me, huh.
News: What things take it out?
Balcarce: Sometimes patience with children is difficult, I am not a very patient mother. Started the day and I try to be sweet as much as I can until I have a “well, enough!” (Serie). That is what most confronts me with myself. I still have friends who tell me that I am re-patient. I do everything or better, but well, sometimes mom gets a little out of it (smiles).
News: Were you an intense girl?
Balcarce: No way. I was very quiet, very lonely too and talked a lot alone. I have a sister 11 years older, we have different parents, and when I was very young, I already lived with her father. I armed my little world. It was another time too, like parenting wasn’t so sweet before, or empathic.
At the age of 15, he dropped out of school—he finished years later in an adult college—and started working in a bakery. Later, she was a waitress in an American-style bar, from Thursday to Sunday, all night. “People put me in a very bad mood, because they came from going out, and sometimes they surrounded you. I told the manager: ´I can´t serve people because you are going to have problems in your business,´ ” she recalls. They sent her to the bar. She went from the bar to a salesperson in a shopping mall. her until she arrived “Roller coaster”.
News: Why did you go to work from such a young age, did it have to do with not going to school anymore and doing yours?
Balcarce: Yes, well, it wasn’t “I don’t go to school anymore”, it was “I’m going to go to work, I don’t go to school for certain situations” and, well, I also leave home a bit, to earn money. And while I was at the mall, my mom had signed me up at an advertising agency and there appears this call for the program.
News: Going back to your role as a mother, how did motherhood affect you internally?
Balcarce: I always thought that I would like to be a mother and with my first child, I was very devoted to the baby, then it started to happen not to sleep and over the months, you get saturated. But I really like newborn babies, I really like to breastfeed. And with my second child, I wanted to have another, but I wasn’t that relaxed. She had another, and with diapers. The day I came to my house with the little one and the other one was running around the house excited, I remember it was a Sunday and I was giving birth… you saw when you feel that the walls are falling on you… well, afterwards it’s great, I I love the sleeping baby on my chest.
News: Neither of them sleeps on his chest anymore.
Balcarce: That also kills me a little, because I’m not going to have another one, the baby is already there. But all stages are good. You share other things, suddenly you see that they have a thought, they have an opinion, they remember what you say to them and I don’t know if that’s so good (laughs), like: “Dad, mom told me the other day that I was going to throw all the balls off the balcony. That’s wrong, isn’t it?”
News: Gives for the stand up, the mother very taken.
Balcarce: There are a lot of works now in that style.
News: It is that they usually describe her as an actress with an enigmatic profile, with a certain indecipherable halo. But when talking about her, she is funny and she has said that she really likes doing comedy.
Balcarce: Yes, it happens with people who don’t know me, who think I’m a different type of personality, the typical one is “oh, you’re much nicer”. People build something about one that is not true out there.
News: You came to acting at the initiative of your mother, when did you choose the profession?
Balcarce: I always had that histrionic, I watched Gasalla’s program and I loved it, I imitated it, and when I started in “Montaña”, I liked it. They put me in the bad character, surely it was made of wood. And I started studying with Julio Chávez and well, I guess I’ve improved a bit. When I left the shooting of Martín (Hache), while I was waiting for the taxi, I said: “I love this, I would really like to do this”. It was the first film I did, at 18, they treated me so well, I had filmed all day, I felt it there.
News: How does the applause live?
Balcarce: The applause is a huge relief.
