“Where am I going?” Celeste Cid asks herself under the intimacy of four walls.
The question asked by the protagonist of
Planners
-a new Star+ series premiering on May 5- arises in
the first bump in her extensive artistic route
De ella.
And in that break of a year and a half without a screen, the first of her since she was 12 years old, the popular actress stepped on the brake, but nothing stopped.
"It's always interesting to recap", he repeats almost like an internal voice that, after a lot of internal work, has learned to listen sharply.
In that necessary trance, between what he wants and chooses to count today,
Planners
arrived .
A bet on streaming for the interpreter who was already Susana Giménez in fiction and, based on an idea by Bárbara Diez -event planner and ex-wife of Horario Rodríguez Larreta- will now be a meticulous organizer of events.
With a pandemic through and the audacity of a team that has
Daniel Barone
as director and Diez herself as Executive Producer, in
an almost autobiographical story
, Cid puts on the suit of a corporate leader (Malena Carregal) in command of her own agency.
premiere anxiety
Celeste Cid composes in "Planners" a newly separated event organizer.
Photo Maxi Failla
“The central axis of the plot, beyond the human nature of the characters, has to do with the events, which are places with a large number of people and that, in contrast to the pandemic, was a bet.
Trusting that we could do it carefully despite the context”, explains who has already filmed two seasons of the series.
Celeste wears a red-carpet-worthy outfit
, but the occasion doesn't include statuettes.
“I was between my pajamas and this”, she notes to break the ice and calm anxieties about the return.
“It's just that it's a really nice day for everyone, because the series was filmed a while ago and we're anxious to premiere it,” she says to justify the strident
dress code
on Wednesday mornings.
-What is it like to rediscover comedy? A record that is very familiar to you, but at the same time with a dramatic background.
-And hand in hand with our "dire", Dani Barone, which is a language that he knows and proposes to the actors where nothing is too settled: nothing
is too funny and nothing is too tragic
.
One thing to go looking for the identity and sensitivity to this story.
Celeste Cid, in her role as Malena Carregal, in the series "Planners".
Photo Star +
-That puts the magnifying glass on the reinvention process of a woman and having to rearrange from scratch to get ahead.
-Yes, my character goes
through his recent separation
.
And at the same time all the characters are going through that situation for different reasons.
That of rebuilding ourselves and putting ourselves back together.
Retelling our own narratives, which is always interesting.
Was this story?
-Yes, I always find that thing about the dark light very interesting.
It was also a process to find the color of the project and this part of the character that in her work is very diligent and very responsible, with a very meticulous and millimeter look, but later in
her intimate life she doesn't know what to do with herself
.
-And he says he needs certainties all the time, almost like a commandment. Do you manage a similar structure? Are you meticulous?
-Yes... (He pauses) I think quite a bit.
Perhaps Malena is more blunt and I am a little more flexible, but yes, with my work I have a very similar way.
I'm a Capricorn, I don't know if this explains anything (laughs), but I need that.
Work is like a place of solid ground.
Celeste Cid likes to look for photos, but she says "zero diva".
Photo Maxi Failla
Your role as a mother of a teenager
-How mom are you a friend of the structure?
-Yes too.
It is really necessary.
And there is also something in the case of my children, who came at very different ages from me.
Things are going to happen differently than you have planned.
I learned about this flexibility through them, because I am very structured and
it is important to resolve with what happens, not with the ideal that one has
.
-Your first job with Daniel Barone coincided with your first pregnancy.
-Yes, at 19 years old, it's true.
In
Crazy of love
.
Today, in fact, we thought that 20 years had passed since that situation.
-And 30 of your career...
- Wow, I'm about to cry.
I'm about to break (laughs).
Gonzalo Valenzuela and Celeste Cid, in a scene from "Planners."
Photo Star +
-Does one begin to measure time through the age of the children?
-Hundred percent.
And also one is big.
You saw that age is passing...
- Do you feel great?
Well, I'm almost forty years old.
It's not that I feel great, but I do begin to have a slightly firmer, more solid outlook on life.
And something begins to happen to me that always seemed curious to me.
When she heard actresses older than me, as a girl, and they asked her something about a job, they said: "Oh, I didn't remember."
She is starting to pass me by.
Suddenly they talk to me about jobs that I don't remember
.
There you also see the passage of time.
-Have you already linked that your eldest son is almost your same age when you were a mother?
-Yes very crazy.
beautiful too.
He is very strong and at the same time I have a bond with him that is so beautiful and so genuine and so without losing sight of the role of mother and son... But also a lot of camaraderie and he has the dialogue totally open to me, that is super valuable .
Celeste Cid poses dancing for the premiere of the series "Planners".
She will also debut as a writer.
Photo Maxi Failla
Isn't it a difficult age?
-No not at all.
And even with his difficulties, welcome.
It is what has to happen.
For me all that brings it home.
Perhaps in generations like mine you looked for it elsewhere, because parents had other tools.
And having that possibility makes me feel that we are doing things well.
-In your generation you could still walk down the street without fear...
-The confidence towards André, my eldest son, is full, but at the same time there is a context that does not help.
But with his father (
Emmanuel Horvilleur
)
we have such a beautiful and similar relationship that it's easy
in that sense.
It is having that touch of how far not to invade his own place either.
because he is also looking for his space.
-Do you study something?
-He goes to college and began to study Cinema, Direction of Photography.
And it happens to us that, suddenly, the other day he had to do a job and they had given him
Iván's Childhood
, which is one of my favorite Tarkovsky films.
Guillermo Pfening and Celeste Cid, in the fiction of "Planners", in which the actress is an event organizer.
Photo Star +
Antón, his other son, started first grade
And she says enthusiastically: “It was very nice to be doing that with him, because at his age I was half at the same age.
Not about going to study somewhere, but about: "Look at this...".
Go to a video store to look for a movie, on a corner of Corrientes street.
He is in that transit and it is beautiful to accompany him.
And the youngest,
Antón
(NdR, whose father is Michel Noher)
, has already started first grade
”.
-Are you still taking Antón to the set?
-Not so much.
Sometimes he comes to see, but it's like: "What a shock to come to mom's work."
And it's good that it is so.
Capable for a while, but she has her times, her life, her age...
- Is that the difficult age?
-Hundred percent!
The context is also difficult for the boys.
There is an excessive exposure to information and then everything is: what is good, what is not...
-No social networks for now?
-For now and for many years.
Has six!
Celeste Cid says that she barely turns on the TV to see cartoons with Antón, her youngest son.
Photo Maxi Failla
-Is it true that they called you to work abroad?
-Yes, but moving the family to another place is very difficult and I am not a detached mother who can leave.
Taking them also implies changing your own routine and it is a very important age.
Not the older one, but the younger one is very much his world here... Do you see that I'm structured?
His look at Argentine fiction
-What view do you have on the void of local fiction on open TV? What do you think of ATAV and the rating that doesn't go along so much?
-I always celebrate that there are fictions and I don't really know if it is going well or badly.
It seems to me that taking a chance and making a quality product, with good intentions, even when some things fail,
is always welcome
.
Don't go for what works.
Then the language is changing.
When I was working at the age of 12 there were even 8 shows on the air, from noon to night, at 3, 5, 6, 7... But there were no platforms.
So to pretend that it continues in the same way would be strange, because there is another context.
-Do you watch reality shows?
-No, not really.
In fact, I'm in a period, for a new personal project, where I don't even turn on the TV.
Meticulous and recently separated.
The role of Celeste Cid in "Planners".
Photo Star+.
-Total detox...
-Yes, I only turn it on to see cartoons with my son and not much else.
They tell me things and I have no idea of anything.
There are other things that are good too.
Exposure and new love
-About the hazards of the job and exposure: Did you make friends with being in the news because of a separation or a new romance?
-Yeah.
At one point I suffered from it again, when I was a girl.
Especially because it was very invasive, at the level of leaving my house very early, to go to school or work and having three photographers in a car following you.
And at that age you can't discern much, it's something striking and kind of intrusive let's say.
But hey... Not only did I become friends, but I also feel that he is the person that I am, did you see?
With all my ways.
-This time it was you who shared images with a new love (musician Abril Sosa) on social networks.
-Is not true!
(Laughter).
It happened to me that I took a Buquebús and they took a photo of me.
But hey, nothing happens, what do I know.
It kind of enabled me to say: everything is fine.
Celeste Cid is dating Abril Sosa, the musician from Catupecu Machu.
Photo Maxi Failla
- Are you in good company?
-I'm so good.
-You are one of the few actresses who rarely choose something and it is not successful. How do you not make mistakes?
-I don't feel that way.
It happened to me when I did a program that was very, very successful, that I didn't have a good time doing it.
Because I felt like a girl, I felt that there was something forced in the exhibition.
And she highlights: “I seem extroverted, but I am also very introverted, I really like being at home, my friends, my things.
And that was something very successful, but internally it did not go hand in hand.
It has more to do with holding hands than what one feels.”
-With the place you occupy in the industry and so many television milestones above, one would tend to think that you are in a position to ask for whatever you want: flexible hours, special catering or whatever whim you can think of...
-No, I'm dying!
That for me is the saddest part of the job.
The banal part, the accessory part.
-Are you zero diva?
-I like to dress like this in these situations.
But then I like to work, think about what we have to do, if there are difficulties try to solve them.
There is a part of the fame or the bubble, that there is nothing there
.
-Only diva in fiction...
-Or in a photo that you wear cute clothes and it's fun.
-Can I find you in a supermarket looking for prices?
-What supermarket are you going to?
You tell me and I tell you.
Literary passion and a book in progress
Celeste Cid, at a night event, in the fiction of "Planners", the series.
Photo Star +
Celeste Cid's inner world is so large that, naturally, it does not stop expanding.
"He is very crazy.
I started working at 12 and I had never been, not even pregnant, for so long without working.
That was curious, ”she says and anticipates that there are“ other things going around ”, for the second half of the year.
-And what did you find?
-With the life.
There is a life, there is a time.
I think it happens a little to all of us, regardless of profession.
There is a time that is not the time of speed and of doing and surrendering.
I would tell you that my perspective of where to go changed a lot.
Where does the focus go?
I was very used to working and doing and raising my children and suddenly there are a lot of things that one leaves behind.
Study or whatever.
-Did you resume your studies?
-Yes, I went back to do literature courses, things that I like.
I have a personal project too now.
I finished a series that I was filming and I took three months to finish
editing a book that I already have written
, but needed a revision.
So what I was saying about reviewing the narratives seems to me to be good.
Are you more of a writer than a reader?
-Not for now, I'm more of a reader.
But that book was always there and I felt it was time to do something with it.
Do you lend books?
-Re, I love to lend books.
I lend them once I read them.
They usually don't come back, but that's okay.
I'm more of a believer that it's okay for them not to come back if they don't have to come back.
Are you reading something now?
- Now I began to read Maggie O'Farrell, that a friend insisted a lot to me to enter there.
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