“Can I ask you something? Are you going to be a candidate or not?” he asked. Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro to Stephen Lamothe in a video in which they play with their similarities. The actor, posing as the Interior Minister, dodged the answer and did not confirm whether or not he is present. Humor without definitions.
Peter’s he told more than once that he is often confused with lamothe so he invited the actor to film a one-on-one in which they make jokes about it, talk about politics, reflect on exposure and discrimination.
They are both 46 years old, fit between 44 and 45, wear a size 42 shirt, are 1.81 meters tall, and neither of them grows beards. The resemblance seems to surprise both of them.
Wado by Pedro and Esteban Lamothe on discrimination
The actor asked the minister what happens to him when he hears discriminatory comments about his stuttering. “Bullying or someone telling you that you can’t sometimes is also an incentive,” Lamothe reflected.
The minister agreed and said that the controversial statements by Gabriel Levinas prompted him to resume the speech therapy sessions. The journalist had disqualified him saying that “society is not prepared” to have “a person with a stutter” as president.
“When a journalist said “Wado I couldn’t be because he has to give speeches, because in journalism we talk…”. There I called a singer that you surely know and I said: ‘Hey, can you lend me your speech therapist?’ Last week I got together with her and she helped me. It still hurts,” said the minister.
Wado by Pedro and Esteban Lamothe about the exhibition
The minister and the actor also exchanged views on what it means to be a political person. They made parallels between politics and acting and stressed that you have to differentiate the person from the character.
“The problem is when the person believes the character or when the character eats the person. It seems to me that there is the balance that one must have,” said De Pedro. “In politics I always say that this is the minister Wado, but I am the militant Wado, the Mercedes Wado, the family Wado that has its values. This is conjunctural,” added De Pedro. About power he said something similar: “Managing power confuses, dizzy to cope with it.”
Wado by Pedro and Esteban Lamothe on politics
Peter’s and lamothe they focused on only one political issue: the concentration in the City of Buenos Aires. The minister defended, for example, the stadium that was built in Santiago del Estero and questioned the national media for having a purely Buenos Aires agenda.
“You don’t love what you don’t know and we need more of this type of investment and decentralize Argentina. Knowing Argentina to love and defend it,” added the minister.
