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The back and forth between Alejandro Fantino and Ricardo Darín seems to have no end. On this occasion, the journalist responded to the actor’s suggestion that operated in favor of the government of Javier Milei, after the disagreement over the definancing of public media and the National Institute of Audiovisual Sciences and Arts (INCAA). “Holding artists in general responsible for long periods in which accounts do not close is a bit perverse and reckless, on the one hand, and also unfair, because it is due to a lot of other things. AND It seems that this affected some vested interests and they decided to send some boys… They said: ‘Cut off that bastard’s legs!’” the renowned artist had recently said, who was openly against the Government’s measures.
Given this, Fantino’s response was immediate: “I cannot understand that you take Neura, my team and me to install the idea that what we say is because we are told to say it. You put us in a very uncomfortable place, a shitty place, quite ugly.” And he continued: “You got into the mud of Argentine politics and you want to come out clean. In Argentina, those of us who make politics by giving our opinions are all in the mud, I will accept whatever comes; “Attacks, operations, assaults, defamations, it’s part of the game.”
“Don’t say more than what they tell us to say because it breaks my balls a lot. No one tells me to say anything, not Milei, no one. The day I have to say things I don’t like I will do it, I have already said it. The thing about this crazy guy is that I like what he’s doing much more than what he’s not doing. He has the balls of a bull to defund you who have lived your entire life in the State“, He launched.
In addition, he targeted the actor for spot in support of national cinema to whom he gave voice and which was presented at the 38th Mar del Plata International Film Festival in November of last year. “What you say is in your personal capacity, they don’t tell you to say it, but I could say that what you did at Incaa was what your sister told you to do.“, he said, in reference to Alejandra Darín, also an actress and union leader, who currently serves as president of the Argentine Association of Actors and Actresses.
“He speaks about what he feels and the others, if they do not have the same opinion, are told to speak. It’s not like that, we just don’t agree. What does bother me is the stupid justification of thinking that Argentina is known for the most important thing it is known for is cinema,” he questioned and continued: “You added audio to a spot where a guy like [Guillermo] Francella appears out of the blue, you appear 17 times and there are all the Kirchnerist actors who have ever existed… If I’m Darín I say: ‘no, stop, they just put this on Francella, we can’t do this.’ “I don’t record it.”
In this way, he assured that all the participants in the spot “openly supported” the then candidate of Unión por la Patria (UP) Sergio Massa, and that it was necessary “take off the mask”. “You don’t see this government well and that’s fine, but it has to be said, dad. You say it in your personal capacity and the rest of us are hitmen. “It sucks for me, but I founded a medium precisely for that, so that my balls don’t break and there isn’t a single noise,” he added.
“You choose the location of the film and I say that in a country made up of a shell there are other needs. Everyone is putting their balls on the table, so, if everyone makes an effort, are there no priorities?” banking” in the same way. “There is no money, and what there is, must be spent on what really matters and what is needed,” she stressed.
Finally, he regretted the escalation of the conflict that began years ago and reiterated that, beyond apologizing “if necessary” for the misunderstanding, he is “convinced” of what he said. “There is no money to blow up a Fiat 600 or to sell fake stamps. There is no money for the press, for the big media, the medium ones and the small ones, unfortunately,” he concluded.
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