Actress, singer-songwriter, eternal learner in the universe of social networks, Romina Gaetani It is an unmistakable presence for a large part of the public that has accompanied her in recent decades.
Your participation in “Good guys” It has allowed her to renew the bond with an audience that knew how to enjoy her in television fictions such as “Chiquititas”, “Verano del 98”, “Soy gitano”, “Botineras”, “Mujeres assassinas”, among many others.
A cafe in Cerviño and Ugarteche serves as a favorable terrain for meeting NEWS. Good time to delve into the eternal radiance of a mind with many memories, with genuine enthusiasm for the present and with various concerns for the future.
News: Viviana, her character in “Good Boys,” deals with the issue of alcoholism. Is the script alone enough to compose a role like this or does it require prior research?
Romina Gaetani: I loved that I received the proposal of Viviana, a separated mother with a teenage daughter and this addiction to alcohol, as a character I thought it was a wonderful combo to act in. Of course, I met people who went through alcoholism and I even met with a therapist specializing in addictions so that they could give me their views, ways, sensations, to understand what those depressions and the need to relapse into consumption are like. I met with each one and wrote what they were telling me, then there is the work that one does as an actress. I live surrounded by mothers with daughters and what I learned about constructing the maternal role is something that I spoke with Adrián Suar and with which I agree: she has a problem with alcohol, but she is not totally consumed by it, we did not want her was a very down character in a youth strip. She assumes her difficulty, but at the same time she is impulsive, hyperactive, verbose, a woman who is still in her adolescent stage in some way, which is very interesting as an actress.
News: Unlike other fictions like ATAV2 that was broadcast finished, you continue recording. Does that give you the possibility to gauge reactions and make changes?
Gaetani: They add some little things, but I don’t know if to change the story or for some other reason. We call the scenes modified or added to the chapter daughters.
News: “Good Boys” has a cast with many young actors. Does it remind you of your beginnings? Do you feel that it has things in common with those first works of your litter?
Gaetani: It is a cast with very responsible people in their twenties, I see them as very professional in their work and at the same time very respectful of the older actors. We pass advice, I often ask them for things like advice on Instagram (laughs), or we also talk about current affairs and I end up asking them a lot of things, whenever I have the opportunity to have lunch I go to the kids’ table! youths!
News: In “Five Women in the Same Dress” you had the opportunity to be directed by Norma Aleandro. What memories do you have of her?
Gaetani: Beautiful! I admire her very much, for me it was shocking to have her as director and at the same time she is very demanding but she is always a teacher. She is very rigorous with the lyrics, she is always attentive when something doesn’t work out.
News: When one studies there is always that dichotomy between theory and practice. You trained with Alejandra Boero at Andamio 90, did what you learned there help you for what would come in your career?
Gaetani: I believe in artists who study and also in those who do not have any technique. I am not orthodox on that point, above all I believe in talent, in gift, in the star and in the angel that one has. That’s all, later you can polish a lot of things with technique, without a doubt, but talent is essential.
News: Now you play a mother but other actresses have played your mother. Who were the best mothers you had in fiction?
Gaetani: The first one that comes to mind is Betiana Blum. With her way of letting me be, she was a teacher without needing to direct me, that’s what great people do. Sometimes she would simply throw colors and tessituras at me and she was obviously right every time she suggested something to make the scene grow. I am very grateful that, since she is a great actress and I am one who likes to improvise, especially in a daily strip where it is good to know the lyrics but also let the moment go beyond the screen, that we have been able to create a bond.
News: You were part of “Mujeres assassinas”, one of the first programs that put issues related to gender violence on screen. Do you think it was a precursor in that sense?
Gaetani: It seems to me that he put on television issues that we suffer and have been suffering for years, things that are happening to us. For some time now we have been fighting to recover our rights and that program showed what many women usually experience. Then there was this connotation that many ended up killing, I don’t know if it was ahead of its time, I think Suar was able to hear something that had been in the air for a long time and fictionalized those real events.
News: In “Good Boys” Facundo Arana participated, with whom he had a public dispute. Did that represent some type of conflict for you?
Gaetani: No not at all. I consider that it is work for him and for me, I think it is good that they have called him to participate.
News: So an outdated topic?
Gaetani: That is all what I am going to say.
News: You don’t usually avoid topics. If you were ever on vacation in Brazil and you ran into Juan Darthes by chance, would he say something to you or would he pass you by?
Gaetani: When I had to talk to Juan, I did it. It was when we were making “Simona,” I chatted privately and told him that I believed the women who told everything they had experienced with him. I told him all this in person because at that moment they were taking notes for me and I wasn’t going to act distracted. We did not have a good relationship in “Simona” and I took care to whitewash those aspects, not only my discomfort with him but my support for the other women.
News: Something more pleasant. Agustín Sierra works in “Buenos niños”, you had shared Chiquititas, where he was part of the children’s cast. How was this reunion?
Gaetani: Yes, we were in “Chiquititas” and now he is a real man! …The man who teaches me how to manage the networks (laughs). He is a very good actor, I love working with him, he is very relaxed, my style, he likes the lyrics to flow, he works very well with Agustín.
News: I imagine that in the interviews they will mention many of your works, but do you have any that you remember with special fondness?
Gaetani: I treasure everything I have done in theater because it works in a different way and they were difficult works to do either because of the theme, the text or the approach. Converting a period piece like “Triste Golondrina Macho” to the contemporary was not easy, making “Recordando con Ira” at the San Martín was also very difficult… “Seda” by Alessandro Baricco directed by Francisco Javier, with that wonderful actor who is Jorge Suárez and Antonio Ugo, who unfortunately has since passed away, was another beautiful experience.
News: We talk a lot about acting but you have a very strong connection with music, how is your musical career today?
Gaetani: I am currently working on many projects, my third single as a soloist came out on November 3rd. Also now I am pre-producing my video clip. Being independent, I am not only a singer-songwriter, I also produce the songs, I am on par with the team in the preview, in the mixing and in the direction of the videos. I feel music is something very much mine, there I have the luxury of expressing my opinions on life, I feel it more personal than acting. Not only for the lyrics I write but for everything that frames a song, I like to choose every detail, surround myself with people who know more and understand what I want to convey. In music it’s me.
by Leonardo Martinelli
