Natalia Oreiro presents “Iosi, the repentant spy” about the attacks on the Israeli Embassy and AMIA

the miniseries Iosi, the repentant spythriller starring Gustavo Bassani and Natalia Oreiro, who follows an intelligence agent who entered the Jewish community in Buenos Aires and whose information could be used to carry out attacks against the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA, will premiere on Friday, April 29th.

This is by Amazon Prime Video and the purpose of the series is provoke conversation on antisemitism “So it will not happen again.”

“To build the future you need to think about the past and understand what happened“, directed by Natalia Oreiro, a few days before the premiere of the series directed by Sebastián Borensztein and Daniel Burman in which she plays Claudia, Iosi’s calculating and unscrupulous boss in the intelligence unit.

Based on the research book of the same name Miriam Lewin and Horacio Lutzkythe series focuses on the path of José Pérez, who was later renamed Iosi Peres, the spy planted by the Police within the Jewish community of Buenos Aires under the delusion but in any case popular notion that Israel is preparing the Andinia Plan, which according to conspiracy theories aims to seize Patagonia.

Who is the co-star

The group led by Burman, too showrunner and producer of the series, chose Bassani for the lead role, an actor with a career in off-theater and commercials, but relatively unknown in mainstream.

#It’s a journey of self -discovery, ”the actor explains about Iosi’s journey, which began with his spy work convinced but then saw how the line separating him from the role he was supposed to play began to blur. Regretting her actions, Iosi will fight in time to achieve justice before she and her new family are eliminated.

Shot in Uruguay and consisting of eight one-hour episodes, it has an all-star cast included Mercedes Morán, Alejandro Awada, Carla Quevedo, Minerva CaseroMarco Antonio Caponi, Daniel Kuzniecka, among others.

Sebastián Borensztein is the lead screenwriter, supported by a team consisting of Andrés Gelós, Natacha Caravia, Sergio Dubcovsky and Daniel Burman himself.

-Gustavo, who is José Pérez? How would you describe your journey?

Bassani: He’s a pretty crazy guy, and that’s why they can manipulate him. There is a fairly strong anti-Semitic feeling because of things that happened to him and they used that to get him into the Jewish community, but over time he found himself within this community.

The friends he makes are friends, the loves he has are real love; then he stopped being pretty José Pérez and started to transform into being Iosi. At the center, is the story of the most terrible attacks in Latin America (at the Israeli Embassy in 1992 and at AMIA in 1994), and he feels he needs to take care of himself and start this journey of redemption. to protect them.

– This is the first project of this potential level of impact that you are starring in. What challenges have you experienced?

Bassani: There is something inside and outside the set, inside and outside the character. It seems like you already have everything, the rhythm of the series, of the story, but I don’t know if I really felt the acting challenge because I enjoyed it again, although it seems like it’s hard to enjoy the character like that.

The challenge is time, being away from family, and maybe it does everything I want to do with the character and allows me to get all the juice out of it that I want to get out of it, and I’m proud of it. we did.

Another role for Natalia

– And you, Natalia? Claudia’s isn’t the kind of role you’ve done in the past. Is that what attracted you?

Oreiro: I was so attracted to the story. I was 16 years old when the AMIA attack took place, that was the exact year I was living in Argentina, where that tragedy and everything happened, that until now it has not been revealed what happenedhow and who to blame, this is really something that is very important for me as a person and as a performer who wants to be part of the project.

With an atypical character, whoIt’s the opposite of any social thinking I might have. And that for an interpreter is really attractive because it takes you away from a common place, from a comfortable place, and makes you take some risks.

-The two mentioned that they enjoyed putting characters that were the opposite of their way of thinking. How do you approach a role like this?

Oreiro: One always seeks the inner truth to convey it later in the performance. In this case, I personally failed to make that connection. Yes, perhaps I was able to draw a parallelism to what for me was a cause; I make characters with important reasons as in Clandestine ChildhoodFor example.

In this case there is also a reason, but a very complicated one because my character is anti-semitic and he had a clear intent to prevent something from happening in Argentina that he was convinced of the Andinia Plan, which would place the new State of Israel in Patagonia. He believed a lie and acted accordingly.

Bassani: Every character for me is different, and in this case I tried not to judge him, to connect there that we were all a bit broken to a greater or lesser extent and I tried to connect with José/Iosi, in the pain he had inside. But I have nothing to do with him, we are different. That’s my basis, and from there try to make it humane.

The Andes Plan

– Why do you think a theory like the Andinia Plan can have so many believers?

Oreiro: That’s for me fanaticism leads to that. Somehow my personality had a clear reason, to work for his State, but he was a fanatic in what he believed, and in that fanaticism he became a completely blind man and could no longer see any truth other than they believe in him. . Iosi then shows him that he has been deceived.

Bassani: It’s an antisemitic myth that starts with the protocols of Zion, it’s an ancient thing and maybe there are people deciding that it could be true. It looks pretty mad to me.

Oreiro: Perhaps it is convenient to think that this could happen. Our characters believe in them, but there are people who manage them that I do not know if they believe, but they believe so that it allows them to conduct certain operations for political, economic, religious interests.

– What do you want me to evoke in public? What do you want them to keep?

Bassani it’s not a series anymoremobilize them.

Oreiro: The series also talks about finding the truth, a fact about these attacks sought for many years and for me, in order to build a future you have to think about the past and understand what happened so that it will not happen again.

Source: Telam

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