The boy went up to the terrace and could live with a jaguar or a Tití monkey. Extravagance was part of that house. With Ringo Bonavena as a father, there was no other option than an extraordinary life.
Natalio Oscar “Ringuito” Bonavena, 54 years old, son of the boxer showman (or vice versa), today sees Jerónimo Bosia, the actor of the series Ringo. glory and death (Star+) e feel a punch. The physical resemblance, certain gestures, a certain aura.
47 years ago, On May 22, she discovered on the street that her father had died. A night watchman who had heard on the radio that the boxer had been murdered in Reno, Nevada, broke the news as the seven-year-old was playing catch. Part of that duel comes back to “Ringuito” as a missile with the biopic released.
In 2006, along with his mother Dora and his sister Adriana, Bonavena Jr. sat down to negotiate with Sebastián Ortega and there was an agreement: The idea was that Rodrigo de la Serna would play the film’s man with lethal fists and a sweet smile., but the project was holed -even after de la Serna brewed for almost a year and gained 15 kilos-. Revenge came from the streaming platform side, directed by Nicolás Pérez Veiga and produced by Nacho Viale and company.
The first time that Jerónimo, the one with the surprising physique du rôle, stood up to Bonavena Jr. was in the Bonavena family restaurant, Patio Funes (Dean Funes at 2000). He was trying to get into the costume of the character and the first thing he wanted to know was if Oscar’s voice was so limited.
The large visual archive, the newspaper clippings, the book call me ringtone by Ezequiel Fernández Moores, and other biographical mediums built an idea for the actor that resulted in the highly successful composition of Bosia as the rogue fighter of Parque Patricios.
Behind the seven episodes in which Doña Dominga (Ringo’s mother, María Onetto), Dora de Bonavena (Delfina Chaves), Vicente Bonavena (Martín Slipak), Sally and Joe Conforte (Lucila Gandolfo and Thomas Grube) and others, there is the untold story, the portion of pain of the child he saw in 1976 the body of the veiled lifeless paladin at the Luna Park in front of 100,000 people.
There were no details then for the shocked boy whose floor appeared to have been ripped up. The bloody news that he tried to disguise it detailed that after playing at Harrah’s Casino, A day before arriving in Buenos Aires to celebrate his wife Dora’s birthday, 33-year-old Ringo went to the Nevada Mustang Ranch cabaretcradle of mobsters and gangsters. The bodyguard of Joe Conforte, the owner of the club, fired several shots with a 30-08 Remington rifle. Ringo’s heart was shattered. Even that of “Ringuito”.
-How did you process that loss as a child, was there a psychologist involved?
– The mourning was long. As soon as I was twenty I went to a psychologist. At seven my father dies and look: at eight I get type 1 diabetes, being insulin dependent.
-What was the first sensation that the series aroused in you?
-I thought it was very well done, the protagonist is spectacular and very similar to my old man. Then there are parts that may not be true, but it’s fictional. It is not a journalistic biography. In fact there are some small changes, for example the boxer Luis Benetti is nominated for not being able to nominate Goyo Peralta. In the United States there is no such problem, but in Argentina his family had to sign the authorization. I was able to read some of the script before and I feel they took care of my old one.
-In what sense?
-It is a drama series about a penniless boy who tried to achieve glory. He could have gone wrong along the way. It is clear that he was one of the inventors of marketing, he was self-managed, he was the typical porteño friend and bully, perhaps he would need a manager in the United States who would say yes and no.
-What would you have changed in fiction?
-I would have put more Argentines, more Sundays with the family. They made my grandmother a little sad and she was always smiling. But there are no reviews. It is made in an American style and I think in Europe and the United States it can be very popular, especially for those who are 55 and above.
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He is the son of sadness and tragedy, but also of contradiction and comedy. The way his father courted his mother at Club Oeste on Jose María Moreno street attests to it. To ask her out, Ringo gave her a flower, a tulip stolen from her brothers who worked at the vigils.
He still remembers how slow it was to cross the threshold of the Huracán field, with his father held like a totem by the claws and kisses of the fans. Or the letters that arrived at his house every week from the United States. Or the day he started crying in the middle of the brawl at the carnival because his father was beaten by the rival he finally defeated, Raúl Gorosito.
I fantasized about becoming a vet, but… Received from the accountant. He has flirted with boxing, is the father of three children (Giuliano, Franco and Stefano) and has bet on the gastronomic field. Today he finds a way to revive “the old” in more than documentaries I’m Ringoby José Luis Nacci: follow the course of the “Globo” in the Tomás Ducó or wherever.
-Have you ever traveled in search of answers, in the footsteps of Joe Conforte. How was that trip?
-At the age of eight we had to go with my mother to Reno, Nevada to do paperwork for the trial. Then, when I grew up, I went to Las Vegas, I wanted to try to understand some things, at one point I was angry with the United States, but I realized that places are not to blame. I once looked for Conforte in Rio de Janeiro, where they told me she was in exile, but nothing happened. My mother taught me that hate and revenge make people unhappy.
-Do you think he would have been satisfied with the way he is portrayed in the series?
-I can’t assume. It does not make sense. But it was more or less like painted, he liked to advertise, provoke his rival, attract the public.
-Do you do the impossible exercise of imagining how he would have been in his old age?
-No, because it’s useless, but I think he would have made a career in the media, which would still be in television like showman. Too bad he messed with someone he shouldn’t have messed with.
Source: Clarin
