Ricardo Darín broke the silence this Thursday in In the afternoonand responded to Alejandro Fantino’s recent sharp comments against him.
“I was a little surprised by Fantino, but people change,” the renowned actor began by saying. “I didn’t understand why he said it, nor is it true that I had a car that crashed into a tree,” he added, directly refuting the journalist’s claims.
Darín also took the opportunity to clarify his position on national cinema and the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (Incaa), an issue that unleashed Fantino’s criticism.
“I said that holding artists responsible for long periods where the accounts do not close seemed a bit perverse, reckless and unfair. Because in reality it is due to many other things. And it seems that this affected some vested interests and someone said ‘cut off that bastard’s legs,’” the actor said. Nine Queensstressing that his words were misinterpreted or manipulated.
In addition, Ricardo was consulted about the recent statements of his colleague Pablo Echarri, who stated that he must sell dollars to make ends meet. In that sense, Darín reflected: “I think that happens to many people. “It is very difficult to escape what happened in our country, unfortunately, for so many decades, that the refuge to try to preserve the value of your currency is to have to change it to dollars.”
What did Alejandro Fantino say about Ricardo Darín?
It all originated when Alejandro Fantino, in his streaming program Neura, harshly criticized Darín and other artists who defended Incaa after the measures imposed by President Javier Milei. “He supports the theory that everything that is known about Argentina is known through cinema. In other words, they don’t know the country for other achievements, such as sports or science… Look at the arrogance these guys have,” Fantino shot.
Furthermore, he recalled an interview in which Darín had said that “two hot showers a day” were enough to make him happy and, based on that, he questioned its authenticity.
“I saw him play tennis, he’s a good guy, but he didn’t play tennis on a clay court at a country club, he played Racket and he had the Pink Panther car,” he said, adding, with sarcasm: “Then I say ‘hey, I’d be missing two hot water showers’, because obviously that’s not enough. So I understand that there is little cinema here lately but a lot of smoke. I don’t eat even one anymore. Besides, I know almost all of them, unfortunately. “A lot of smoke.”
