In the last days, Alejandro Fantino and Ricardo Darin They revived statements from the past when referring to the country’s present and the financing of public media and the National Institute of Audiovisual Sciences and Arts (INCAA). The tension between the two began to escalate when the actor’s position on these issues became known.
Last Friday, Fantino He tried to calm the waters and apologized to Darín on his program Fantino Multiverse (Neura): “Ricardo, if I said something personally that bothered you, I apologize because if there is something that you have, it is that you are a gentleman.”
The origin of this confrontation dates back to an interview ten years ago on the program Stray animals. On that occasion, Darín explained that he had turned down an important role in Hollywood because he wanted to be with his family. “I wanted to go back home, I had been doing theater in Madrid for six months, I wanted to come and be with my wife and children.”, he explained. Fantino then asked him: “Do you know the money you could have won there?”, to which Darín responded: “And? What is it for? To live better than I live? “I take two hot showers a day.”
The current controversy arose when Darín, in recent statements to the press about the cuts to the INCAAexpressed: “Believing that what has been happening in our country for many decades now with the pulverization of education, of real work or the number of people who are below the poverty line, which are all very regrettable and very horrible things, they depend on the artistic sector, on the actors, actresses, directors. .. “It’s a delirium.”
Furthermore, the actor suggested: “It would be good for both sides to be well advised and sit at the same discussion table, since we want to build a good country going forward. And the positions are understood and a point of balance is reached and not listening to the crazy things we are hearing out there.”
These statements were interpreted by Fantino in his cycle in Neura. The journalist commented in mid-March: “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.” The entertainer continued: “He is already assuming that those who voted for Milei believe that the country is like this because of them, because of the actors. And he says that that is a delusional theory… but it would also be good for them to take off their masks and recognize, because there are a lot of people who were left out.”
Remembering the interview in Stray animals, Alejandro stated: “I was grilled for becoming this boy’s partner when we were on a note and to make it go better and for him to come out better off, he told me that he didn’t mind having a plane and that he only likes taking two hot showers a day.” And then he stated: “And I saw him playing in the Vilas, he couldn’t enter with the BM because the BM that he had to enter the Vilas hit the trees in front of him. I saw him play tennis, he’s a good guy, I always saw him at Vilas, but he didn’t play tennis on a clay court at a country club, he played tennis at Racket and he had the Pink Panther car. ”.
Last Friday, Fantino tried to end the dispute with a conciliatory message: “Everyone is making an effort, Richard, everyone… The middle class, the workers, the retirees, the kids, the young people, everyone… So, I say , there are no priorities. Like as and you give voice to an absolutely anti-government spot.”
Fantino also noted: “If the government that was there was of a different color, of a different type, Milei was not there, if there was a Peronist or radical government that took these same measures, I would bank them the same, because there is no money, brother, and what there is must be spent on what is really worth it.”
The journalist expressed: “There is no money, Richard, to record or to blow up a Fiat 600. There is no money for the press, there is no money for the big media, for the short ones, for the little ones. There is no money for anyone, unfortunately, “Not even for the elderly is there money, which is the most sacred thing we have.”
Finally, Fantino lowered the tone of the dispute and reaffirmed: “Ricardo, if I said something personally that bothered you, I apologize because if there is something that you have, it is that you are a gentleman.”. I apologize if I offended you with something, about your car, etc… Now, with the other thing, not because I am convinced of what I say.”
