Ringuito Bonavena and how his father's tragedy became a series: "My old man was taken care of a lot"

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 possibility than an extraordinary life.

Natalio Oscar "Ringuito" Bonavena, 54 years old, son of the showman boxer (or vice versa), sees Jerónimo Bosia today, the actor from the series

(Star+) and

.

The physical resemblance, certain gestures, a certain aura.

47 years ago,

A night watchman who had heard on the radio that the boxer had been murdered in Reno, Nevada, spread the news while the seven-year-old boy was playing catch.

Part of that duel returns to "Ringuito" like a missile with the released biopic.

More than a boxer: Bonavena, a showman (scene from the series).

In 2006, together with his mother Dora and his sister Adriana, Bonavena Jr., he sat down to negotiate with Sebastián Ortega and there was an agreement: the idea was that

, but the project was punctured -even after de la Serna prepared for almost a year and gained 15 kilos-.

The revenge came from the side of the streaming platform, 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. it was in the Bonavena family restaurant, Patio Funes (Dean Funes al 2000).

He wanted to get into the character's costume and the first thing he wanted to know was if Oscar's voice was so finite.

The extensive visual archive, newspaper clippings, the book

by Ezequiel Fernández Moores, and other biographical supports built an idea for the actor that ended in the very successful composition of Bosia as the rogue fighter from Parque Patricios.

Ringo Bonavena and his son in the early seventies.

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 who in 1976 saw

.

There were no details then for the shocked boy whose floor seemed to have been torn off.

The bloody news that tried to camouflage him detailed that after playing at Harrah's Casino,

, cradle of mobsters and gangsters.

Joe Conforte's bodyguard - the owner of the place - fired several shots with a Remington 30-08 shotgun.

Ringo's heart was shattered.

That of "Ringuito", too. 

-How did you process that loss as a child, was there a psychologist involved?

- The mourning was long.

Just in my twenties 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 generated 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 part of the fiction.

It is not a journalistic biography.

In fact, there are small changes, for example, the boxer Luis Benetti is named for not being able to name 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 consider that they took good care of my old man.

-In what sense?

-It's a dramatic series about a penniless guy who tried to get to glory.

He may have gone wrong on the way.

It is clear that he was one of the inventors of marketing, he self-managed, he was the typical porteño friend and bully, perhaps he would have needed a manager in the United States to tell him yes and no.

Ringo Bonavena's son, Natalio (TV Capture)

-What would you have changed to fiction?

-I would have put more Argentine, more family Sundays.

They made my grandmother a little sad and she was always smiling.

But there are no reviews.

She is made in the American style and I think that in Europe and the United States she can be liked a lot, mainly by those 55 and up.

live with the legend

He is the son of sadness and tragedy, but also of contradiction and comedy.

The way in which his father courted his mother at the Club Oeste on Jose Maria Moreno street attests to the latter.

A scene from the Ringo Bonavena series.

He still remembers how slow it was to cross the threshold of the Huracán field, with his father held as a totem by the claws and kisses of the fans.

Or the letters that arrived every week at his house from the United States.

Or the day he started crying in the middle of the fight at Luna Park because his father was beaten by the rival he finally beat, Raúl Gorosito.

He fantasized about being a veterinarian, but

He flirted with boxing, he is the father of three (Giuliano, Franco and Stefano) and he bet on the gastronomic field.

Today he finds a way to revive "the old man" in something more than documentaries like

, by José Luis Nacci: follow the course of the "Globo" in the Tomás Ducó or wherever, rain or shine.

-Did you ever travel in search of answers, in the footsteps of Joe Conforte.

How was that journey?

-At the age of eight we had to go with my mother to Reno, Nevada, to do the paperwork for the trial.

Later, when I grew up, I went to Las Vegas, I wanted to try to understand some things, at some point I was angry with the United States, but I understood that the places are not to blame.

On one occasion I looked for Conforte in Rio de Janeiro, where they said he was in exile, but nothing happened.

My mother made me understand that hate and revenge make you unhappy.

A scene from the Ringo Bonavena series.

-Do you think he would have been satisfied with the way he is portrayed in the series?

-I can't assume.

Has no sense.

But he was more or less as he paints it, he liked to advertise, provoke his rival, attract an audience.

-Do you do the impossible exercise of imagining what he would have been like in his old age?

-No, because it is something useless, but I think that he would have made a career in the media, that he would still be on television as a

.

Too bad he messed with who he shouldn't have messed with.

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