Several years ago, when the streaming it wasn’t a reality and Netflix was still a DVD rental company, Valentina Bassi (49) broke into television as a repeated unitary figurethose fiction closer to the cinema that aired once a week and differed from the daily strips.
Today the unitary series and all the productions that are made up of episodes are called series. And Bassi, who in these two decades has never stopped working on the small screen, is venturing into the incipient TV platform.
After a small participation in Supernova -from Amazon Prime Video and Channel 9- the Trelew actress has a bigger role The fanthe new Argentine series joining these hybrid transmission times: premieres its first two episodes on Wednesday 12 on Elnueveand the next day it will be fully available in Flow.
Directed by Alessandro Cianciothe same director of El marginal, The fan has that imprint of police and peripheral characters who had the prison fiction of Sebastián Ortega, The pointer and many others of the kind that he inaugurated squatters at the beginning of 2000. A theme that, despite its long history, Bassi had never been on board.
“I have wanted to work with Ale Ciancio for a long time, I love him as a director. All I had seen The fringe It seemed to me to be of the highest quality, so that already turned me on, “says the actress who shone Consequence Truth, first fruits, I’m a gypsy Y Murderous women, among other fictions. Then clarify: “I had made police, but not placed in the marginal”.
The 8 chapters of 45 minutes are centered on the story of Rodrigo (Vittorio D’Alessandro), a young man of wealthy class, the son of a businessman (Luis Machín), who again meets Marciano (Martín Slipak), an old childhood friend who manages some clandestine activities in the barrabrava to which it belongs.
Rodrigo enters that world little by little and, in the midst of envy, betrayal and a past that beset him, grow up to be the new head of the bar. For this he will have to deal with Látigo (Nicolás García Hume), the current leader, and his trusted group.
Nancy, the one at the bar who wants her slice
Bassi plays Nancy, a bar employee who works in a clothing workshop. of clothes and makes club shirts.
“The character is fantastic, he attracts me a lot. Nancy is like the last one at the bar, the last apricot in the jar. She is the one who makes the T-shirts and has the sewing workshop there in the neighborhood. And, when you start to understand that you are dealing with a lot of money, he wants his slice. And will do everything to achieve it. I loved his strength, his drive, I’ve enjoyed it since I read it, so I threw myself into it, ”he says.
-How much did you know about the issue of bars and football-related mafias?
-Zero. I’m not a football fan at all. And I liked that too, because as an actress it’s really cool when you enter worlds you don’t frequent in your real life. I’m zero football, except when the World Cup arrives. I had a lot of fun.
-Being so alien to that world, is there something that identifies you with Nancy?
-Obvious. Because we are all human beings. I think the drive he has to want to live better identifies us all. What happens is that everyone, from their environment, from their environment, from their history, does what he can. And he does what he has at hand. Later, the world of betrayals, of personal ambitions, is typical of everyone. It’s a super human series.
-What do you mean?
-We are all very individualistic in this. Everyone wants the of him. In the series they are also very ambitious, and the betrayal is there, to the touch, to achieve the objectives. This is his world, and he’s super human. So it’s not like I had to do a lot of field work. It is enough to relate a little with how we are.
-How is the world of bars represented? Is it exposed, is it reported?
-Be a genre it leaves no moral. I have a feeling you show humans what we are like. There is no good or bad. We are both. And that contradiction seems super attractive to me. It is not judged. They are the characters. And I love it. I think it’s a character story.
Theater, strip and streaming
Bassi began his career with a high profile role: she was María Soledad Morales in Héctor Olivera’s film on the raped and murdered Catamarcan. Since then she has become an actress always in demand by film and television directors and producers.
“I’ve always done more unitary, and they weren’t all that different from the series that are happening now,” he replies of his adaptation to this era of streaming. But he does not deny his experience with the daily novel.
“The few strips I did, on the one hand, burned, because it took a long time, but on the other hand, they were very funny. Since you didn’t have time to prepare anything, the books came out and were recorded, you had to give a lot of space to spontaneity, to what went out there, “she recalls.
“Sometimes beautiful things come out that don’t come out in a unit because everything is more thought out, the shot is more careful. The streak is a redevelopment. It also superficializes you, because you have to do everything quickly. But I always see the bright side of things”, He confesses.
At the last moment, Bassi turned more to the theater. Without going further, he dedicates his days the barbaric gesturesthe work written by Laura Nova and directed by Cristian Drut, which is presented on Thursdays at the Picadero Theater.
“Last time I retired to the theater. Y when I went back to audiovisual everything had changed“, bill. And analyze the new television.” It has its pros and cons. It seems to me that the eye is very focused on the quality and I celebrate it. The fact that you know your character’s journey from start to finish is also positive, “he acknowledges.
“The downside is that there is less aerial fiction and we have lost space for the actors. I loved it when there was aerial fiction. That less air is consumed TV makes me sad. But, well, everything is turning towards the platforms, ”she weighs her.
-Usually you appear in large productions and suddenly drop your profile. Is it a conscious search?
-No, I don’t see it as something conscious. I do not know. I have been working for many years. I have internships in which it is not that I have lowered my profile, but that I have dedicated myself more to the theater and not so much to the audiovisual for a matter of natural logistics that it allowed me to spend more time with my son. I’ve never stopped working because I can’t stop working. I really enjoy acting. This has always been clear to me.
Source: Clarin
