We’d like to write that it has that mystery of women that guys lose their heads over, but no: Andrea Frigeri is undoubtedly beautiful, “Oh, well, thank you very much…”. Beautiful, elegant, talented.
We have her here tall and gorgeous, smiling on all four sides, roughly extortiona film that opens on Thursday where the protagonist – when he is not – is there William Francella and where Pablo Rago shines by honoring a fluidity of gestures atypical for Argentine cinema.
Let’s Google Andrea Frigerio, depending on the case: 61 years old, model, journalist, actress, TV presenter and writer from Argentina (?).
It says nothing about one of those manifestations of human nature that leave you stumped into thinking that beauty actually matters.
In the film, the interviewee in question plays the suffering wife of an airline pilot. It would be an aeronautical thriller where, oh surprise!, our Renaissance artist, Enrique Piñeyro, doesn’t work. But we were talking about beauty.
The beauty
“It’s something that touches you like your father or mother does. Then, in an instant, you lose it, you lose the charm. With the passing of youth it passes, but it begins to have other characteristics and you realize, for example, that health is also beautiful».
Frigerio seems used to answering for these things. “Another issue is facial features and well, that has its vintage vibe. I can be skinny that doesn’t draw attention or have the features of an attractive person. Point: beauty has never been celebrated in my home. No. It was ‘Andrea, the pretty one”. I didn’t live with the beauty that opens doors. It was something I learned when I was older. When I was a model, if I heard “pretty, pretty, pretty…”. That’s when I realized I touched the jocker.
-Why did we only find out you were such a good actress when you were older?
-Hahaha, thank you, because I started working as an actress when I grew up. First I was a model for about ten years, then I dedicated myself to television as a presenter and through María Inés, Guillermo Francella’s wife, I understood that I could do what I do now.
-I don’t understand what Francella’s wife has to do with it…
-It was she who told me: “You are an actress and I will tell Guillermo to call you at work. “And why do you realize I can act?” I asked. And she told me: “Why yes.” Guillermo called me for the first role I played in my life, of which he was a sketch put Francella, year 2002, 2003… I recited and he was half surprised: “Ah, you’re covered”. I stayed all year in the program.
It is clear that María Inés had seen me as a presenter in entertainment programs and one day I met her by chance at one of those football matches for husbands, she approached me to introduce herself and told me that she always insisted on her husband let me call… And so it was: I also found out late that she was an actress, even though I always knew it as a girl, but she wouldn’t let me…
-Did you model…?
He served as a model. Silent trade. She was the hostess: a presentation of Barbie. But my passion is histrionics, interpreting the lives of others.
-I thought you worked as a model because it gave you more money than acting…
-No, no, I had no idea I had it. Even my father, who has since passed away, was surprised: “How did they know you were acting?” “I don’t know dad, they noticed.” I think that when you have a gift, something that is not yours comes out, emerges, it’s incredible….
-You may have nearly as much work as Mercedes Morán…
-Well, I really admire Mercedes. Very…
-Here’s where beauty plays against you for certain roles…
-The stigma of the model, you say?
-Perhaps you couldn’t have been, I don’t know, the wife of the prosecutor Strassera…
-Now I made a movie called A giraffe on the balconya very special title. It has to do with the ERP and Montoneros era. There I am an ex-combatant and I seem very deteriorated by complicated life situations.
-You have worked with Darío Grandinetti, with Francella, with Oscar Martínez. Are those names sometimes intimidating?
-Look, I’m a woman of great character and I understand that if someone calls me to play a role it’s for a reason. I usually ask the director a lot before playing a character. “Why did you call me and not someone else?” “Are you sure it’s me?” .
But when the director shows me his determination, it feels like he gave me a scroll to make me feel safe. I trust a lot in what I can give and in my teammates. I like working with my eyes and in the case of Guillermo, who is the one who staged me and who also unites us with trust and friendship, I said to him in this film: if you see me raise an eyebrow, I too will one less grimace, whatever, you tell me. I like my teammates to help me build the character.
You haven’t studied acting…
-Studied. Before modeling, I studied with Lito Cruz, but I went, I came, I took my courses, then I started modeling, I studied a little with Julio Chávez, for a year and a half, and I work as a voice, I sing… I try to be trained. Even physically. I have a body that allows me to enter characters without problems. I can transform.
I did a film with Juan Leyrado last year, where I play an Italian midwife, all stuffed, they won’t recognize me, I loved it….
-Stuffed. So you didn’t gain weight like the one in “The Whale”?
-Well, if I go to Hollywood and I’m busy The whale… But here was a character that could be laid out like that, with applications, applications of everything from tails, from giant lolas, from life. And you will also know that the actor of The whale has gained some weight and that everything else is filler, applications.
-Ah, I didn’t know, I thought about the Hollywood metamorphoses that make you win an Oscar…
-No, no, no, I think that film also won “special effects” for what I’m telling you. Note that there are videos where you can see how she puts on makeup, how they give her a double chin and stuff like that.
-Which film was a cornerstone of your career?
–the illustrious citizen.
– Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat.
Yes, I did then My masterpiece with one of the two. I remember they asked me for a meeting, they arrived with a folder and that the Distinguished Citizen It took a long time. She had, like, four deferments. I was desperate for that role. It was all she had. It was that or nothing. Not that she could choose.
-Projects don’t rain on you…
-Now things have changed a bit since that film. That’s why I also consider it a cornerstone.
Do you regret being a model?
-No, I started working as a model, but first I studied Biology at the University of Buenos Aires. I needed seven subjects to receive me. I am the daughter of an engineer and a teacher. There were no artists in my house. There was a relationship with art, but from the viewer’s point of view. I did ballet from 6 to 17 years old. I studied four languages, they cared a lot about my education.
They never imagined that I would be a model. In fact, when I told my father that I was going to be a model, it was an insult to him. “I didn’t educate you for this.” But he had a son, he had to work and he had the physique du role to do it. I did very well, but it was not my calling. I was bored to parade. I went down the catwalk and was always thinking of something else.
– Was it necessary to think?
-I thought. I thought I had to feed my son.
Source: Clarin
