Reno, Nevada, 1976. “Not a journalist came.
What happens in this city?
Don't they have a television?” asks the actor Jerónimo Bosia, recently landed in a destination that, by script, pretends to be the American city known for its casinos.
It's Ringo's first scene
.
Gloria y muerte
, a Star+ series
premiering on March 24
, and the young man who plays Oscar Natalio Bonavena in fiction, an Argentine boxing legend, wears a mustache and a lit cigar.
The sequence, recreated in Argentina and located the same year as his premature death, anticipates the decline of the 33-year-old idol, assassinated three months later by the mafia.
“Death in the characters haunted me a lot.
Ringo finished and I went to Spain to shoot a film (
The Snow Society
) about the tragedy of Los Andes”, links the young protagonist of the thriller that also goes back to the origin and milestones of the vertiginous life of the champion and that will have seven chapters.
In the ring.
Jerónimo Bosia as Oscar Bonavena in "Ringo. Glory and Death".
Photo: Star +
More than a year later, the solo encounter with Bosia is
without a mustache and in a fantasy ring
, set up in a Buenos Aires hotel room.
And that's when the actor, with a history of first steps on Peruvian television and remembered for being the bad boy in One Hundred Days to Fall in Love, begins to string together threads that lead him right to where he is standing.
know defeat
"I may not be as old as Ringo was, but I do know what defeat is," clarifies in advance who, familiar with the contact sport, is a three-time national taekwondo champion
and former South American champion
.
“When I went to the Taekwondo World Cup in Spain, at 17, I lost in the first fight with a Russian named Dimitri.
It was a raised ring, with flags from all over the world and I came out as Ringo in the first chapter.
I started to commit infractions, like hitting him on the back because of impotence”, revives the actor whose face, a true carbon copy of the champion, is even multiplied today in recreated figurines from the '60s.
“When I started acting
I always had the epic idea that one day my role would come
.
I didn't think so much about a career, but about fitting into a character.
Later, since 2018, everyone began to tell me: "You look like Ringo."
And I didn't know who he was, ”he admits.
-Who told you?
-I was working on
One Hundred Days to Fall in Love and
Sebastián Ortega
told me
.
Also that year the photographer Gabriel Machado took pictures of me characterizing it.
And when I went to the casting for the series, I wanted to show that I was up to the task and I thought: "Either I'll be a joke or I'll stay."
Luckily I stayed.
The Mustang Ranch.
The recreation of the brothel where Bonavena was murdered, by the actor Jerónimo Bosia.
Photo: Star +
-The name of Rodrigo de la Serna also circulated to interpret it in 2010, but in a film that was never made.
-Yes, there was much comment that "Seba" Ortega wanted to do it with him and Bonavena would have done an excellent job.
Although I had to play someone bigger, he had a lot of faith in me.
I was very confident in acting and doing this project directed by "Nico" (Nicolás Pérez Veiga) gave me more confidence than I can give acting, with less.
It was an intensive.
I even enjoyed the pressure.
-When you were chosen, it turned out that you gained weight on your own and it ended up being counterproductive for the role.
-Yes, I thought I was going to look more like Ringo having more of a period body, something more Popeye.
So I gained weight, I went to the production meeting and they said: “No, we want to do a slightly more modern version”.
They put me on a diet and I ended up doing the complete opposite.
I usually weigh 85kg, at that time I was about 96 and I lost 8 kilos.
Luckily physical activity also helped a lot.
-Did you have any physical marks from the ring?
-Yes, because there are many fights in which Ringo charges.
He is a type that is characterized by endurance
;
so he had to let me hit.
I remember that "Nico", the director, told me: "Now you have to lower your guard" and I saw bruises, which I was still prepared to receive.
-Your past with taekwondo and kickboxing will have paved the way a lot.
Jerónimo Bosia, characterized as Bonavena, in "Ringo. Glory and Death", the fiction of Star +
-Completely.
I was first dan.
In taekwondo, I had a black belt and I came out three times as a national champion, once as a South American champion and I went to the Taekwondo World Cup in Spain, at the age of 17, where I lost.
Then I did a little more until I was 22 when I switched to acting.
Didn't you consider it before?
-Actually, I knew that I wanted to make an artistic career.
My mom is a plastic artist and the fascination for drawing had hit me a lot.
I started studying Cartoon Animation, but I was very rough with technology.
So I stopped and then I mixed a bit the two things that are art and the body.
I felt very good doing theater classes and I started to “cast”.
Years of not letting your guard down
Outside the ring, the real one and the fictional one, the Saavedra boy never let his guard down.
Before landing in cinema (
Yo, adolescente
), where he already formed an acting duo with actor Renato Quattordio, he tried himself endlessly in children's and youth projects without luck.
Jerónimo Bosia in "Ringo. Glory and Death".
The resemblance to Bonavena is remarkable.
Photo: Star +
“The truth was not left.
I did a lot and it didn't finish happening.
The Disney talent scout, the same one who called me for the Ringo casting, found a folder of me from having done so many auditions.
Until one day, when I was in Bariloche, he wrote to me: "We have a casting for you."
It sounds a bit cheesy, but that night I was in a little cabin, with my girlfriend sleeping, I grabbed a poncho and went outside to look at the sky and the stars, ”he reviews.
-In "One Hundred Days to Fall in Love" (Telefe) you were another who took the world by storm, but for being the bad and provocative boy who did bullying. Did you come to live with the famous stigma of the galancito?
-Yes, it is true that one always has to leave when out of nowhere they call you for a very defined archetype.
For example, people always think that I play rugby and have never touched a ball.
And they call you from rugby papers.
Or that "get on your back" and all that...
-In your networks you play a little with that, from sarcasm and humor.
-Yes, totally.
Sometimes I know that I can be heavy on the networks...
Why are you very active?
-I publish many things and very different ones, but I don't sell myself as a product.
If I write or something occurs to me, I upload it.
-What do you mean by not selling yourself?
-I am not trying to show, as everyone says, that in the networks one shows the best of one.
I'm not going to show you anything scary either, but I try to expose everything I like to do beyond acting, not just a defined profile.
I like to draw, write, be funny, play sports and I upload a little of everything.
A scene from "Ringo. Glory and death."
The series will have seven chapters.
Photo: Star +
And you're a good imitator.
-I started with that because I imitated my old lady's friends who told me: “You have to do theater”.
That's when I started acting.
Then I wanted to do something really raw, I wanted to test myself dramatically, and this role gave me the opportunity to explore all of that and more.
-Bonavena was a bit of a showman too.
-Yes, being funny, the fights, are all things that had to do with me.
At school
I always wanted to attract attention
, make a joke and I was looking for the comment to make people laugh.
That brought me problems because he was very restless and hyperactive.
-Did you change schools a lot?
-Yes, haha, do I look?
I didn't like school, but taekwondo at the same time began to order me and gave me the regimen.
School taught me that life could be hard and taekwondo disciplined me from the age of 7.
Bonavena's family
-Unlike the Maradona series, which has had its detractors, here they had a direct link with Bonavena's relatives.
-Yes, I went to dinner at the restaurant that his son Ringuito had and it was crazy.
In fact, my aunt's husband went to school with Ringuito's son.
-What did you talk about?
-We had some wine and he told me things I didn't know.
For example, that Ringo brought a lot of exotic animals and once brought a monkey into the house.
And you have to keep a monkey in Parque Patricios... he had eccentricities.
His family also told me that they physically looked the same to me.
-Taking out this specific case, I understand that the best compliment you can get is to tell you that you look like Marlon Brando.
-Yes, I like it a lot.
When I met the figure of Marlon Brando I went crazy, it was when I began to study acting, at 18. I began to investigate his life and identify myself because he was a rebel who was not doing well anywhere and could not find a place to live. he.
That gave me courage to face what I wanted to achieve with acting.
Later that admiration also mutated to Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Jerónimo Bosia, in the skin of Oscar Bonavena, in the series "Ringo. Glory and death".
Photo Star +
Did you hang up the gloves?
-Yeah.
That metaphor for me applies to when I went to the Taekwondo World Cup in Spain, in the city of Benidorm and I lost in the first fight because I didn't feel like I was up to it.
I put on my helmet and said: “what am I doing here?”
On top of that we had no money!
And taekwondo is amateur.
We had to do charity dinners, everything.
My old man told me: "Go on, live it, because you did it all your life and it doesn't matter how it goes."
And he emphasizes: "After that experience I said: I am never going to hang up my gloves with the next thing I do and that is what I set out to do with acting."
-And you didn't lower your rod, because you come from shooting a movie about the tragedy of the Andes, which took more than a year of filming.
-Yes, I had a piece of paper, a friend of Nando Parrado's, Pancho Abal, who died the first night.
But it was another kind of challenge.
My character is a death and it was working an epic death.
All haunted characters I come loading.
Ringo
finished
and I went to Spain to do that.
-And the experience of shooting so many meters high?
-We were in a ski center, locked up, cold and without much to do.
It was a huge and tragic demand to get into that place.
-You turn 27 before the premiere of the series, on March 24. What do you ask for, discounting that a wish has already been fulfilled?
I would ask for more things like that.
I want more of this commitment, because I feel like I have a lot to give and this committed me a lot.
That's where you feel like you're floating, and I want to be floating.
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