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Graciela Borges tells the intimacy of her podcast: she recorded them locked in her dressing room

2021-04-23T17:54:54.485Z


In the middle of the pandemic, and while she had decided not to work, she was summoned by Film & Arts to give a voice, in the format of short episodes, to her experience in theaters. They are already on Spotify. The hilarious behind the scenes.


Silvina Lamazares

04/23/2021 6:00 AM

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Updated 04/23/2021 6:00 AM

Serene and sensual, that's how Graciela Borges always sounds on the other side of the phone line.

And colloquial, antidiva, genuine and simple.

The monarchical halo that some put on him is not his.

She gives notes like she's in slippers

.

Maybe it is.

And as it was when she recorded, for a team that received her in London,

the podcasts she made in pandemic for Film & Arts

.

They are delicious audios that have a mega-production aroma.

And to

think that she made them locked in her dressing room

.

Very Borges.


From that same house, in Pilar, he now speaks with

Clarín

.

Before it was a haven for weekends or vacations, but since March of last year it became his place in the world ... In the pandemic world.


When podcasts hit the Film & Arts screen in June, they will feature footage from his career.

Photo Courtesy Film & Arts

There she settled with two friends as soon as the 2020 quarantine was decreed. And she stayed, with some escapes - with the corresponding permits - to her home in Barrio Norte for personal reasons.

He says that, on the other hand, “I came from two huge film jobs that really left me very tired:

La quietud

, the film by

(Pablo) Trapero

, and

The Story of the Weasels

, the film by (Juan José) Campanella .

Precious both, but I was exhausted.

And, at the same time, I was doing the AcercArte tour with a show that I adore,

Between us

, with poems, a wonderful singer (Adriana Barcia), funny stories.

So

the stop, even though I didn't like it, ended up coming in handy

because I couldn't give it any more ”.


-A year ago, just started the compulsory isolation, you had planned to dedicate yourself to reading and meditating ...


-I read a lot, but, to tell you the truth, I meditated less than I would have liked.

Sometimes when you need it the most, you do it the least.

I can't find much explanation for that.

What I did understand is that being in this house, with a park, birds and a lot of silence did me super good.

When I was going to my house in Figueroa Alcorta for something, I was already wanting to turn around this stillness.


-And at this time, did the emotional need to go back to work paint you?

Or the economic one?


-Economic no, thank God.

I really like to work, I did it all my life, but I

was really fused

.

What's more, a little before the opening of the artistic activity I received a film book and I remember saying:

'I'll die if I have to film again now

.

'

And I think that now I don't really want to.


"My life in the cinema" proposes an approach to the Graciela that is not seen.

Photo Courtesy Film & Arts

With

more than 60 years of work and a face, as fine as it is expressive, that the screen knew how to take advantage of

, in November she received a proposal that led her to walk down new lanes.

"At this point in life, do you think?"

And, luckily, it seemed to her.


And, while she tries to silence the dogs that sneak into the chat, she goes to

Graciela Borges's

seed

, my life in cinema

, a series of

40 podcasts produced by Film & Arts

to listen to on Spotify: from April 5, every Monday a batch of four episodes is uploaded

(http://filmtv.la/GracielaBorges)

. And, when the last one is reached, the cable signal

will put together a special with all that material that will be seen from June

.


“There is a very interesting guy who lives in London with his family,

Patricio Orozco

, who has run the Shakespeare Festival forever and does amazing things for Film & Arts.

One day he called me and said: '

We plan to make a special of your films, something like your life in the cinema.'

'Ah,'

I say, '

look how good.

But I want to clarify that I don't do anything live for now

.

'

It was the worst moment

.

Well, at that time, shortly before the end of the year, without knowing everything that was coming for this 2021 ”, he released between drinks of water, to combat some effects of his chronic sinusitis.


Graciela Borges And Alberto de Mendoza.

Your movie photo album could have multiple volumes.

Photo Courtesy Film & Arts.

-But you were unwilling to work ...


-It is true, however it was an interesting idea and I did not perceive it as something that could stress me, but as something relaxed.

So I said yes and they immediately

sent me a special microphone

from London.


-And who was the scriptwriter?


-Nobody, didn't I tell you that it was something like relaxed, like it wasn't a job?

They were asking me things, such as topics, and I answered, remembered, told anecdotes.

One day, for example, one of the producers said to me

'Tell me about Favio'.

They were very nice talks.

I did not cover them with transcendence, because, if not, I would have been bored

.

It was like

'Well, tell me a little about what happened when you made

A Date with Life

(1958), tell me a little about what happened when…'

.

And talking about cinema, in my case, is talking a little about my life.

What are you going to tell: how does Doe or Mengano film?

You count the life circumstances surrounding that film.

It went well and we didn't leave any movies out.

imagine if we chat ...


-All at once?


-No, one hour a day, for three months.

Obviously they must have cut a lot.

-Yes, with as thematic, dynamic and fresh mini monologues.


-Oh yeah?

Excellent.

I imagine they have edited like crazy, pasted parts of one talk with another.

I'm honest, I haven't heard them yet

.


-They didn't send them to you?


-Yes, yes, I have them here, but I didn't want to listen to them because that makes me nervous.

-Listen in "The first kiss", it has a colloquial tone, very bearable, great climate

.


-That's what they told me:

'Gra, it seems like you were talking to a friend'

.

And I liked that, I

never got into a diva tone to talk about my work

.

It never seemed exceptional to me.

I work from this, as you work as a journalist and the man works as a bricklayer and another as an engineer ...

-But don't you just like your voice, which is a sound curtain of Argentine cinema?


-It happens to me with my voice and with everything:

I don't like to listen to myself and I don't like to see myself

, until after some time passes and I feel encouraged.


-What, you never saw a movie of yours as soon as it was released?


- No, what I have done is to see some in private, for no more than 20 or 30 people.


-And how did you spend it?


-Sometimes very good, others more or less, and sometimes bad.

The truth is that I was happy with the films that I was able to make in recent years.

The stillness

(2018) was difficult, she had a very terrible character (she played Martina Gusman's complex mother).

I don't know how to act: I have to be the character

, I've already told you about it several times.

And then, at a certain point, when he is inside and I imagine how he looks, how he walks, how he thinks,

I get up and I am the character

.

What comes next, if they add scenes or whatever, I don't care anymore.

Nobody gets me out of it, I already have it on top of me, sorry.


Graciela Borges in "La quietud", by Pablo Trapero.

Huge work, yours.

-And that doesn't weigh more than necessary?


-No the truth is no.

And, without sounding corny, all of that requires forgiveness and love.

This character of Esmeralda, in Trapero's movie, was so terrible that there was no way back to be able to love her.

But I knew I had to make that effort.

Luckily, at one point, it was explained what had been the pain that she had gone through through time.


-In "The Tale of the Weasels", although it is another record, you also had a difficult one.


-Of course, and on top of that we worked in July with a terrible cold, in a house in Villa Devoto.

And the outside was made in Brandsen: almost all outside with two or three degrees below zero, with a

thin shirt always on.

The men had a jacket, how alive ...

It was difficult and beautiful, with a beautiful character.

We looked for details, like hair: I didn't want to dye myself white.

So I put on a Miguelito Romano wig… She was

a woman in decline, who hadn't left her house for a long time, and then it couldn't be a perfect wig

.

There had to be a backlash between the one that was and the one seen now on the tapes.


old times: Diego Maradona and La Borges.

We will have to wait until June to see this material in Film & Arts.

As she says,

she is the cinema

.

Since his first job, in '58, with

The Boss

, directed by Fernando Ayala, he has threaded almost 60 films (how can he not highlight, at least,

The Dependent

, by Leonardo Favio?).

The idea of ​​bringing his experience to a handful of audios made a difference.

And he convinced her to come back.


-Did you know what a podcast was?


-I had no idea.

-The same thing happened to Norma Aleandro last year, when she was summoned to podcast her stories ...


-It is that we are from another generation, but we both did it, finally.

I saw his, very nice.


-Do you remember how you reacted when that word was thrown at you?


-Yes, I was with a friend, who helps me with many things.

'They

're going to send me a microphone to make some ... what do you think?'

.

We set up a kind of study in the dressing room and

Juan Cruz

(Bordeu, his son)

was dying of laughter

.

It's a carpeted dressing room, eye.

Only a few times we had to repeat, but the truth is that that move was great.

As he spoke, I listened to how they laughed in London.

He could tell that they were comforted by those he told them.

And I liked that, I admit it.


-And you were dressed for the occasion?


-But please, I produced to be at home?

I'm always just like that.

Why would that change if he was at my house?

-Did you see that there are people who need to set up a scene to better illustrate what counts?


-Yes, I know, but not me, because, what I speak, I speak from my heart, although it seems corny what I say.

Then

it is enough for me to sit down, have a glass of water, an aspirin

and I send myself.


-Was the acoustics improved in the dressing room, even if it is?


-No, nothing, I sat there,

with my clothes hanging on one side and the other, next to the computer and a sound console

.

I was only concerned about this sinus infection.

Oh, I also took an anti-allergy.


It is very funny counting, Borges.

Like he doesn't know the recorder is on.

But you know.

And one imagines her lying on the couch,

without a hint of glitter

.


Perhaps, with an aesthetic similar to that which

Amigas del alma

dared

to show a few months ago

, a hilarious video that he recorded with Verónica Llinás: “It was

a telephone crossing of two chetas, hilarious

. She is a total genius. " Graciela, in the skin of

Mariyuli

, appears with a creamy face and a turban.


In that he remembers

another exception to his rule of not working for a little while

and explains: “There was one more thing and that also ended up being beautiful.

I called

Anita Katz

, after I called

Carla Peterson

and then

the China Suarez

.

Three o'clock on the same day.

'Come on, hit it.

It's for a series called Sessions, for Disney

.

'

And

look how old I am that I thought it was for children

.

Disney is Mickey to me. "


-And when they told you the idea of ​​a couple in crisis ...


-When I saw what they sent me… Very strong.

I read chapter 3 and almost died.


-And you said no at first?


-No, at first I said yes.

'What do you want me to do?'.

What they offered me I loved. They told me that they would take great care of me, with all the protocol, that the makeup artist was going to only have my makeup. They were all wearing tremendous diving suits.

I didn't know if he was at NASA or on a set to act

. They were four days outdoors in Puerto Madero. I was kind of Oprah Winfrey, a totally crazy journalist, and I loved doing it. I put on a red wig and glasses. It was a beautiful adventure (it will be released this year, on Disney +). Working with people you love and who are cool is priceless.


And he finishes off his pandemic worksheet with his assignment on National Radio: “On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 11pm to midnight, I drive

A woman

, which are talks, interviews, anecdotes, music, we had a very nice time.

I do it all for Zoom ”.


A good companion, as her colleagues say, “I confess that I am quite concerned about what will come with the performance.

I have the feeling that cinema and television will be something else.

There are people who owe rents, who do not have to eat, it is a sector that needs to reinvent itself

in some way ”.


Graciela Borges in the privacy of her home in Pilar.

While recording podcasts, she was speaking to interlocutors who were in London.

Photo Courtesy Film & Arts

-In the 2020 pandemic you said that you were cooking a lot and learning some things.

Was there anything new in 2021?


-You know what yes?

I started watching series, finally.

I saw

Lady's Gambit

, which fascinated me, and one by Martin Scorsese, supreme.

'Girls, what's the name of the one in New York, I don't know how much?', He

yells away from the phone.

And from the edge of the pool comes the title of

Suppose New York is a city

.


He says that he can't take the airports anymore, that the last experience going to Malaga, to look for a prize, “was cruel”, and that he wants to rest.

He wants to, but cannot.

To the delight of those who, unlike hers, we

do enjoy seeing and hearing her

.


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