Darín before the Oscar: selfies and jokes before a turbulent flight that took him to Los Angeles

During the stopover of the flight from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles,

and his wife, Florencia Bas, received them at the Houston (Texas) airport with a light storm, not of congratulations and greetings, but of rain.

The welcome and his stay in Hollywood was not in full sun either, but with persistent drizzle, in a city like Los Angeles, where rain is desired.

Although the day of the delivery of the Golden Globes, at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, it also drizzled before the ceremony began where

obtained the first of the awards it received in this so-called "Awards season", which started that Sunday, January 10, and ends this Sunday, March 12, at the

.

Yes, exactly two months ago today, when

won the Golden Globe for best film in a non-English language (formerly, in a foreign language)…

Santiago Miter and Darín thanking them exactly two months ago for the Golden Globe for the best film in a non-English language.

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Ricardo gladly accepted the request of a compatriot while waiting to board the three-hour flight from Houston to Los Angeles.

“I was going to hold it back, but I couldn't…

”, the Argentine fan told him.

"Of course," said the protagonist and co-producer of the film that he can make history this Sunday, March 12, if he wins the Oscar for best international film.

It would be the third for our country.

As the prosecutor Julio César STrassera, in the Oscar candidate "Argentina, 1985".

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"We're going to Oklahoma," Darín joked

when I jokingly asked him what he and Florencia were doing at the Houston airport.

Naturally exhausted from the 9-hour flight from Buenos Aires, the couple headed for the United Airlines flight's boarding gate.

It was 6.40 AM, add the time difference with Argentina, the jet lag and you will have an overview of the situation.

The flight to Los Angeles was quite bumpy, with turbulence in several sections of the journey

, which predicted what the weather would be like in Los Angeles: rainy.

Panorama in Los Angeles

La Ciénaga avenue is, as always, full of huge billboards, on the roofs of the buildings, promoting, announcing movies.

There's the one from

, which premiered here today, with the tagline "New York, New Rules," the one from

, with Nicolas Cage as Dracula's henchman putting his long nails on Nicholas's shoulders. Hoult, and the most original, that of

, by Christopher Nolan, about the creator of the atomic bomb, which has a luminous counter that indicates how many months, days, hours, minutes and seconds remain until the premiere on July 21.

And also one of the Marines sneaks in there, showing two armed soldiers in attack position and simply reading

.

That's not why the members of the team from

came to Hollywood .

If they win the Oscar this Sunday, all the better, but they're not going to fight with anyone.

Together with Florencia Bas, when they attended the premiere of the film in Buenos Aires.

She always accompanies him.

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Ricardo Darín is the last Argentine from the

to arrive here for the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood.

- who, like Florencia to Ricardo, accompanied him to the events and awards ceremony since that international premiere at the Venice Mostra, on September 3 - were already here.

Peter Lanzani arrived on Tuesday

, from Buenos Aires.

The co-producers of the film Victoria Alonso and Axel Kuschevatzky play local, because they live in Los Angeles, and other producers are also here, such as Agustina Llambi Campbell, Federico Posternak, Santiago Carabante and various heads of the film's technical team.

Peter Lanzani, who makes up prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, has been in West Hollywood since Tuesday.

The agenda for the “talents”, as the film crews are called here, includes meetings, dinners and a cocktail with the press, which will be tomorrow, Saturday.

Today, Friday, with the exception of Kuschevatzky, who will conduct interviews in his double role as film producer and star interviewer for the TNT signal on the red carpet of the Dolby Theater, in the heart of Hollywood on Sunday, they have no scheduled meetings with the international press

Unless one is lucky enough to run into them on the layover at an airport.

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