This Tuesday, January 3, exactly twenty years since the end of the first season of they are lovesone of the most popular polkas in those golden years of Argentine fiction.
The story marked an entire generation of children – and not so children – and marked the leap to stardom for Nicolás Cabré and Mariano Martínez, the brothers Pablo and Martín Marquesi which today reappear in Instagram videos in terms of emotional redemption.
Is that some time ago the actors announced it in the networks they worked together again in the comedy Tom, Dick & Harry -preview on Wednesday 4th at Multiteatro-, this time with once “The Sun King” as the main protagonist under the orders of Cabré, who makes his directorial debut.
A few days before this comedy – with Bicho Gómez, Yayo Guridi, Mercedes Oviedo and María Valenzuela in the cast – goes on stage, clarion He spoke to the duo that everyone has seen grow and mature on TV. Today the two cross a quieter stage, closer to their children and the theatre.
“We haven’t worked together for eleven or twelve years. Since when The only ones”, begins Martínez, recalling that other strip of Adrián Suar’s establishment that after the success on the screen -as they are loves– had its stage version.
“This stems from the desire to work together again. To find each other, to see where we were and what we could do”, adds Cabré, sitting in an armchair on the stage of the Multiteatro, with the scenography ready for tonight’s rehearsals.
There they will talk about how this business meeting came about, they will recall those years of youth, hormones and TV marathons, and they will explain because the present keeps them further away from the audiovisual and closer to the tables.
The reunification of the Marquises
A year ago, Cabré and Martínez met for dinner and expressed the desire to do something together again. Back then, Cabré was the star of the comedy a woman hurts meby Manuel Gonzalez Gil.
But I had read Tom, Dick and Harry and thought of Mariano for the role of Tom, the protagonist of this one absurd English comedy about a married couple who want to adopt a child and when the woman representing the adoption agency arrives, she has to face and deal with the disasters caused by Dick and Harry (Gómez and Yayo), Tom’s brothers.
“Eventually, if the idea is to work together, I can direct it. But one way or another you have to do it,” says Nicolás that he told his friend about him at that dinner. Everything was closed when it became known that the rights to the work were held by Juan Manuel Caballé, the producer of It hurts…the work Cabré was doing.
-Did you have a hold on directing?
-I will adapt: I don’t know if I had that as an outstanding account. I knew it might get my attention in the future. When I act I’m involved, I’m there wandering and asking. And I’ve been lucky with Manuel González Gil, who from the top of the stage lets me change things, try things out. I’ve always been involved and they’ve always given me the opportunity to get involved a bit. The technicians also saw it, so I don’t think it seemed so strange to them when the proposal was for him to act and I to direct.
-Did the fact that Mariano was the protagonist have a lot of influence when it came to encouraging you to direct for the first time?
-I will adapt: Hundred percent. For me it is essential. It’s the pillar. Knowing that he’s there, that we know each other, and knowing where I can lean… It was essential for me that my first experience was with him.. The team, the cast, the technicians were chosen, taking into account that it was my first time. So I’m surrounded by people I know, who kind of know where I want to take it.
“The assistant director is Christian Grassi, who did everything with us: The only ones are the loves. So if the slap came, I knew where to ask.”
-Martinez: Yes, there are confident and talented people who love what they do. All the guys Nico has surrounded himself with are all people who live off this and love it.
-How is Nicolás as a director?
-Martinez: Spectacular. The truth is that it is a pleasure, a tranquillity. I wanted to be on stage with him, I wanted to do a comedy, and be together with his first directing experience. For me it is a privilege. She broke everything, she did everything brilliantly: He expresses what he wants well, he guides us, he guides us all, it’s fun, it’s fun. The whole process could not have been better.
The memory of them are loves
-What happens to them when they see that twenty years of Son Amores have passed and the audience still remembers the Marquesses?
-I will adapt: Of everything. It’s rare. When we started with this job, we started communicating that we were going to be together and uploading some videos, I was surprised by people’s reaction. It is somewhat inexplicable to understand what the nonsense we did meant or what it meant to many people.
“We were just talking about how when we’re apart people look at us. But when we are together we are like Carozo and Narizota: people point at us and laughs,” acknowledges Cabré.
-What memories do you have of that strip and that stage?
-I will adapt: The fastest memory I have is that we grew up together at a turning point in our lives. Because we have become very popular and we could have shot anywhere. And even though we had hits and misses, because we were assholes, What I always saved is that we were healthy and good children. ruinsometimes.
“But we worked 12 hours, then we went to eat, then to dance, all together. At a time of revolution in our lives, and with access to millions of things, we always take care of each other. we were loyalwe were kids who lived what we liked”, reasons Nicolás.
-Martinez: It’s that sweet nostalgia. I have thousands of unforgettable memories, tempted when we worked, to go dancing, to go eat, to chat, to drink wine, of future dreams. And I always remember making this joke: ‘What, can you imagine when we’ll meet in twenty years? Where will we be in twenty years? Will we have hair?’
-I will adapt: haha, it was always the hair. My thing was hair.
-Martinez: Well, twenty years later we are here for the premiere of the show.
-I will adapt: And with the hair…
-Martinez: Thank God.
Away from the TV and close to your children
– Do you miss that TV on air and those strips that everyone saw?
-Martinez: I don’t know… You adapt to life, life changes and it’s good that it is.
-I will adapt: No. I have fond memories of those times, but priorities keep changing. Today I wouldn’t spend 12 hours a day in a studio. If at some point I have to do it, I will. But I don’t miss it. I am happy to take my daughter and go looking for her calmly. I can go drink my latte with her. I miss certain moments, being young.
-Martinez: Yes, of course, those things, who doesn’t miss them?
-I will adapt: Yes, but I don’t know if today I would have the spirit to spend a whole year, 12 hours a day in a studio. Not knowing if it’s cold or hot outside, or if it’s raining or if the world has fallen.
-It was fine for that stage, let’s say.
-Cabré: Of course, they are moments.
-Martinez: There are other things out there that can be done with the same intensity in a shorter time. Doing theater gives you another freedom, it allows you to enjoy other things. I am also a father and I enjoy being with my children. I like working on what I want, I think there is still a long way to go and to learn.
“But I also want to share time with my children and I’m lucky to be able to do that, to be able to give them quality time. This is a privilege,” understands Martínez.
– Would you say that to prioritize this, the theater is ideal?
-I will adapt: It’s nice for that. And I always say it’s a cycle. It allows me to close that circle I need. Having the freedom to carry it, to carry it, to be present; go for a run, be able to be with my friends. This makes me come here with a smile. Theater makes my life easier.
And he adds: “It’s a privilege to be able to do it, to live on what I like and moreover to have the time to fill my lungs. He no longer liked being in a hurry and having to take her to Rufi’s (his 9-year-old daughter with China Suárez), throwing her away at school, looking for her quickly because if she wasn’t late to record, calling someone to go look for her. Today I am serene and the theater is fundamental for this”.
-And the world of series and streaming? Neither has yet ventured there.
-Martinez: I haven’t done anything yet. Only one film I made was sold to Star+.
-Are interested?
-I will adapt: And I work. Whenever a design looks good, it will be seen. I’m not very aware of that. I think things are happening or not. It’s not something I’m thinking about. Day to day, I’m thinking more about preparing for a race I’m racing in April than moving to Hollywood..
Source: Clarin
