Ricardo Darín, Natalia Oreiro, Guillermo Francella sitting in front of Benicio del Toro are a film in their own right. A day before the Platino Awards gala in Madrid, they already won the awards for best performance in the “public vote” segment. From yapa, they applauded the Puerto Rican in the front row.
The man who went from being an extra in Madonna’s video The beautiful island he man of weight in the Hollywood industry held a press conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in this capital. It was as a prelude to the Platinum of Honor that he will receive for his career.
“When I started my career, in my career there, The first thing they asked me was to change my name. And it is that, in Hollywood, most stories, stories, are not designed for the minority“He fired as the Uruguayan and Argentines listened in awe.
“I took it very seriously and I decided that if I had to interpret stereotypes, I’d do it by looking for the humanity, the complexity of the characters“, commented the winner of the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I am a father and this has changed me a lot,” Benicio admitted, “now I see a lot of dolls,” the actor joked. Traffic, by Steven Soderbergh and fifty other films.
Minutes later, the Argentine-Uruguayan Legion won the awards in which 15,000 people voted. Of the six items, four had a national celebration.
Argentina, 1985 won Audience Platinum for Best Picture, Oreiro earned Best Female Performance in a Series (Santa Evita), Francella the best male performance in a series considered (The one in charge) and Darín for Best Male Performance in a Motion Picture for Argentina, 1985.
“Proud to be Latin”, Natalia elegantly celebrated, who she said clarion who travels permanently to Uruguay for his participation in the cycle The voice and looking forward to the premiere of soon almost deadwith Fernán Mirás as director.
Santiago Miter’s film is the big candidate (14 nominations) for Saturday 22, at the gala to be held at the municipal facility of IFEMA.
Its three categories: Best Picture; best direction (for Santiago Mitre); screenplay (Mariano Llinás and Santiago Mitre), original music (Pedro Osuna); male interpretation (Darín, Lanzani); male cast (Carlos Portaluppi, Norman Briski); female cast (Alejandra Flechner); editing (Andrés Pepe Estrada); art (Micaela Saiegh); photography (Javier Julia); sound (Santiago Fumagalli); and Platinum for Cinema and Values Education.
In this way the applications are distributed among 12 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Uruguay).
Source: Clarin
