Viviana Porta tried, as many women do, reconciling career with motherhood. But each time she left her one-year-old Pedro in the dressing room of the novel I will resistHe felt his heart tighten.
“I understand that there are many women who can’t stop working, but I was lucky to be able to make this decision and I don’t regret it for a second. I would do it again, because I know that I didn’t miss anything about raising my children,” says Viviana Puerta, actress, star of the current show Madres, which can be seen every weekend at the Teatro Metropolitan Sura, together with Sabrina. Garciarena, Laura Conforte and Anita Martinez.
She returned to the stage after many years, having given birth without regrets or haste, taking care of her children together with her husband for 20 years. Today shines in this work that de-romanticizes motherhood and shows its B sidea comedy that makes you laugh but also excites.
And besides, he’s already part of filming the second season of the super hit by The one in chargethe comedy with William Francellaon Netflix.
A story on television
Puerta was in great moments of Argentine television, such as little ones or The Golden Rocket Gangbut his history as an actor had begun much earlier.
-How did your career and your vocation for acting begin?
-I was younger than my daughter today, she was 16 and acting was a hobby for me. But the reality was, I didn’t really know what career I was going to pursue once I finished high school, so I found out about the existence of the National School of Dramatic Art. My parents, especially my darling dad, didn’t like this at all.
So I signed up for several competitions, none convinced me, the idea of acting kept spinning in my head. In the end, I managed to scrape together some money and secretly enrolled in a theater school go on Saturday morning. Mom knew, I was afraid to go somewhere and no one would know. But dad not. And he was very angry when she found out. But today they are both very happy with my choice.
The story then is that in that school I auditioned for a program that was going to be called Billiken TV, on Canale 13, and they chose me. Among many girls. The program didn’t air, but a few months later Cacho Mele called me to do it so are mine and there I started.
The car that made her famous
What happened next was the absolute success of The Golden Rocket Gang. It was the year 1991 and that trio that was already famous Adrian Suar, Diego Torres and Fabian Vena, launched this youth comedy that would last two years on the air. Viviana was Bárbara and she enjoyed this novel as well as all that huge cast which made her shine in anticipation of a teenage audience who didn’t miss a single chapter.
Subsequently, she won the hearts of boys by playing Gaby Morán little ones. she was the sister of Gabriel Corrado in fiction and Mili’s mother, the role of Agostina Cherri. During the first three years of the novel, the story focused on the intense search of the teenager who dreamed of finding her mother. In 1995, Puerta appeared on the scene.
“My ride little ones It was important. Every time I meet people they remind me that I was part of their childhood. The character was beautiful and I think the story of Milagros was stronger than fiction. I am very happy that I participated ”, he recounts many years later.
When I arrive I will resistViviana was already a mother and that’s where the click occurred in her head and in her career.
The return was not easy
“There have been many years away from the medium. I didn’t start from scratch now when I get back but it cost me a lot“Gate explains.
“My first job, when I resumed my profession, was at the Teatro 25 de Mayo with a child by Manuel González Gil, Robinson crossed the seawith Nancy Anka and Celeste García Satur, on a winter holiday. And from there, things flowed again, but it happened to me often I’ve talked to producers, to directors, who believed I was retired for good or that I had left the country.”
“I’ve never moved from here. I was just a mother. But it shows that it’s a costly price to pay. Even in these times, where there are already female CEOs and everything seems to have changed. No man would stop working to become a father, but other things happen to women. I’ve been working since I was very young, but if you’re not on TV it feels like you don’t exist,” she says.
“The only time I walked away was when I dedicated myself to motherhood, but the system is very crazy and if you are not there you are a ghost”, he says now that that time is over and that he can finally feel part of the environment again.
In recent years, once it resumed, important things reappeared. Done Lezama Parkdirected by Juan José Campanella, with Luis Brandoni and Eduardo Blanco for almost two years. Another hit for your collection. But she also had the luxury of San Martín: with an enemy of the peopleby Henrik Ibsen, went on a national tour.
In 2018 he participated in the film Lostwith a story by Florencia Etcheves, directed by Alejandro Montiel.
The present
Today her children Pedro and Miranda are 20 and 17 years old. “They don’t give me much more than a ball,” she says and laughs. The man lives with her father and the girl lives with her and the famous film and theater producer, Carlo Mentasti. I have been a couple for 8 years.
“Several years after my divorce from the father of my children, with whom I was over 20, I met Carlos at a party I went to with my daughter. A few days later, he asked one of the organizers for my phone number. I hesitated a bit because I was in a very quiet phase of my life raising the kids. But he called me and we talked a lot and most importantly we laughed a lot,” he says.
“We survived a pandemic, living together and with Miranda, so that’s it. We continue to laugh and talk a lot about work, like that first day,” says Puerta happily.
Carlo Mentasti and Valentina Berger are the producers of motherswhich Puerta read at the heart of the pandemic, when they still didn’t know if the theaters would reopen.
“As I read it, I laughed out loud and eventually tears flowed, which I almost never do with a script,” he says for a while before preparing to go to his dressing room at the Metropolitan Sura, to a show that will fill every weekend and will interview women of all ages.
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Source: Clarin
