“We are the love we leave,” says the actor Victorio D’Alessandro by expressing, with emotion, that he would like to be a dad. He grew up in Villa Urquiza and at the age of 14 he began studying theater while playing soccer, his other great passion. At 18 he threw himself into art and shared the bill with his father, also an actor, in the play “Special Fantasia,” where he played a squirrel.
He continued his career as a lawyer, did advertising and made his first appearances in small roles until he rose to fame with “Casi Ángeles”, produced by Cris Morena. Work would follow on TV fictions, several of them produced by Polka, in which he went from soft comedies to committed characters, such as the bisexual in “Heirs of a Vengeance”, where he fell in love with another man, or the dealer in the co-production Argentine-Spanish “Black Sunday” from Prime Video, filmed in Bilbao.
In theater, he accompanied Dalma Maradona in “It’s Good That You Are Here,” he played Irigoyen’s little canillita in “El Diario del Peludo,” an Italian immigrant in “Sangre Gringa,” an unrecognized son in “Filomena Marturano” and a musician in trouble. with the mafia in “Sugar”, among other works.
These days he is finishing filming the series “Her”, where he plays someone very close to the remembered Cris Miró, and is awaiting the premiere of the films “Lucía’s new boyfriend” and “The light of flares”.
Coupled with the beautiful model Julia Zanettini, he receives NOTICIAS while dividing his time between two continents. Upon seeing him, she realizes that he has the fragility of a child, the adolescent rebellion and the seduction of an adult within him.
News: Did you practice as a lawyer?
Victorio D’Alessandro: No. I was halfway through the degree process, but I finished all the subjects. I took them, I gave them, but I never took care of going for the title because I was already recording on television. My responsibility with the profession I had chosen, which was acting, led me to put all the chips there.
News: Did studying law help you?
D’Alessandro: Very much as a discipline, as a structure when it comes to finding order in the study, especially with general reading because it encourages the pleasure and desire to read. In my case, that was given to me by the faculty that took me to study in libraries and opened the universe a little to me.
News: Was it by family mandate or by own choice?
D’Alessandro: Own choice in the search to organize myself with a career and be able to study. But also, just at that time, I had already started with theater at Augusto Fernández’s school, with a great teacher who is Mara Bestelli; great actress and teacher. At the same time she studied English, she did body language and vocalization. The idea was to be as well prepared as possible for the future, although I recognize that my mother was a notary and perhaps there was something in the genetics that she transmitted to me.
News: But the performance prevailed.
D’Alessandro: Exact. The first thing I did was in Mexico, where I worked on a novel, then here, on television I was in “Son de fierro”, a little character in a program with Osvaldo Laport, Felipe Colombo, Manuela Pal, Calu Rivero and Mica Vázquez. When I was finishing those recordings, the possibility of a casting with Cris Morena for the character of Lucas Francini in “Almost Angels” arose. From there my career began to take off a little.
News: Despite your appearances on television, did you never stop doing theater?
D’Alessandro: Never. When we were students, at school, with Nahuel Di Pierro, today an established Argentine lyrical singer who is triumphing in Europe, we were very hard-headed and we were always determined that we wanted to perform. In the third year, we entered a contest with a creation that we made with a literature teacher, based on the book “Secret Ceremony” by Marco Denevi. She liked it and we won the prize.
News: Is football also part of your life?
D’Alessandro: Yes, when I was a kid, I played in the lower leagues of Argentino Juniors, I was signed in the AFA for Atlanta and I went to try out for Vélez Sarsfield and Excursionistas. But I had earned the performance, I said goodbye to professional football and now I only play among friends as an amateur.
News: Why do you like committed roles?
D’Alessandro: I always find them more attractive and interesting to work with from the pain they feel, what happens to them and how they express it. They have such strong roots, with some pain or some emotional disability, that as an actor they force me to take responsibility and generate an investigation process. For example, I was filming “Cuba libre”, a miniseries for Netflix in which I played Commander René Vallejo, Fidel Castro’s personal doctor, so I was summoned by a time, a process, a person who was working for the Cuban guerrilla and also a language that is Spanish, but with a very particular accent. I think these characters take me to a side, I don’t know whether to call it extreme, but to a super interesting edge that is not so close to my daily life.
News: Is it like a creation laboratory?
D’Alessandro: Of course, it is a search that makes me find even the way the character stands in front of life. I look for music for him, I try to think about his psychological character. I am quite responsible with my work, quite obsessed and I try to get water out of the stones. I am not just stuck with what the text says because they are beings crossed by their experiences, their pain and also their happiness.
News: And where do you feel most comfortable?
D’Alessandro: In the theater (categorical). For me it is such a unique and lively act where I believe that there are no good or bad actors, but only those who are alive and those who are not. For me, theater is that, it is an act so alive that it has to do with an external look at the moment that is happening and that is so unrepeatable that it seems almost a rite. It is a communion between the audience and the characters where, for seconds, you have the possibility of putting the audience in your pocket in that universe that you created to tell the story. It’s magical, even if you do four shows a week, each performance is going to be different because your mood can cause you to say the same thing in a different way. Your stomach hurts or you’re in a shitty mood and the show goes on anyway without the audience noticing that maybe you’re not having a good day.
News: What do you think of your professional colleagues when they take up a political flag?
D’Alessandro: I love seeing people who are involved with their ideals because it is great to have them. It seems great to me that everyone can take sides where their head, heart and life take them. Then it’s up to you to save it for your kitchen or want to share it. That depends a lot on how one wants or how far one wants to tell about their life. We are creative beings and at the same time we are people who are, today, in front of an audience that follows you and can replicate what you do or say. We have the possibility of choosing that, luckily, that is freedom in democracy. I think dialogue is good, although we must keep in mind that, in the virtual world, of social networks, you can encounter aggression or haters and then controversy arises.
News: He has one foot here and the other in Spain. How do you see the situation every time she returns?
D’Alessandro: It is incredible to think that we, in the golden age of Argentina, were the “breadbasket of the world.” Full of people who came from Europe to a rich place that opened its doors to them. Today we see a country that has been very hurt and socially divided for many years. It makes you a little sad and painful because we know that we have everything to get ahead, that there are many talented people in all areas. I think it was a years-long process until we found ourselves in a very complicated situation for all the people and the workers. It seems that we live in constant uncertainty and that is what happens to me when I come here, because I feel and will always feel Argentine. The raw material is there, I think we need a little trust, and banking on the processes. Above all, continue betting, although sometimes it seems impossible, you always have to do your part in Argentina, a country that has many resources and, above all, very qualified people in everything. You go to Spain and the Argentines who are working, doctors, programmers, artists, athletes, are respected again. Man, we just have to right the ship.
Thanks: Möoi Larrea Restaurant – Jessica Lekerman
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