The first season of Argentina, land of love and revenge (ATAV) It had among its protagonists a Spaniard, cheating albert. In this second season of the recently released Eltrece telenovela Polka, there is also an actor of that nationality: Toni Gelabert.
The 22-year-old actor looks like one of the revelations of the strip which started this Monday, as it leads one of the strongest stories of the plot, in which many characters are present, connected to each other and to the characters of the previous season.
Albert Baró played the Spanish immigrant Bruno Salvat, who lived a love affair with Delfina Morel (Delfina Chávez). Now, Gelabert puts himself in the shoes of Antonio, his nephew. In fiction, the character of him is Argentinian but, living in exile in Spain with his father for several years, acquired the Spanish accent.
Antonio Salvat is a gay boy who, after his years in Barcelona, forced by the political circumstances of Argentina, in the late 1970s, on his return to Argentina he faces several problems who put him to the test.
First of all, she struggles to learn the truth about her missing mother’s fateand that according to what they tell him, she gave birth to a girl during her captivity.
In addition, the character is one of the protagonists of one of the strip’s most important love stories, after his reunion with Secondo (Tato Quattordio), his friend since adolescence. However, Segundo finds it difficult to assume his sexuality and is marrying a girl, Pilar. This adds drama to the romance between the young friends.
From this Thursday the strip will run from 10:15pm to 10:30pm.
A name with good titles behind it
Toni Gelabert is one of the most promising actors of his generation in Spain, since, despite being very young, He has developed a career in film, theater and television.
In the theater it was the main actor of the musical Aladdin. She also participated in the series treufoc, which mixes the thriller with the climate of the time, with the setting of the Balearic Islands, and in love for dogsa family drama about clashes between six sisters.
His latest work in television was in the Spanish miniseries Angera two-episode detective story that tells the story of Lydia, who has just left the Police Academy and arrives in Mallorca to join as an inspector.
Precisely the island of Mallorca is the birthplace of Gelabertwhere he was baptized as Anthonyalthough he now artistically shortens his name to Toni.
At the moment Gelabert is in a relationship with Argentine actor and director Santiago Talledo (who worked Ugly duckling), who encountered in the recordings of ATAV2, last year.
In several interviews, Gelabert said that it was not difficult for him to accept the offer to be part of it ATAV2 given that his parents honeymooned in Argentina and he spent his childhood listening to anecdotes of that trip which they enjoyed very much.
The soap opera category is also associated with a moment shared with his grandmother, in his childhood, when they watched TV together. Here because, Gelabert has a special fondness for the genrein addition to considering that the issues dealt with in ATAV2 they can be starting points for a conversation between different generations, as happened to him with his grandmother.
study Argentina
The Spaniard says that, before starting the recordings of the Polka strip, he had to study a lot and know the historical period which is depicted in the soap opera. For this, he has resorted to books, podcasts and all kinds of material that he records the phase of military dictatorship, the disappeared, exile of many and other painful consequences.
On the other hand, the Spanish actor ensures that the experience of work for the first time in Argentina (the strip was already fully recorded last year) it was so enriching that he doesn’t rule out doing it again, as long as it can coordinate with the offers he has in Spain.
Source: Clarin
