mercedes funes was a guest at “Partners of the Show” as part of the segment of tributes and interviews that the cycle carries out and remembered one of its most beloved characters, Alicia Torcuato who interpreted for Pol-Ka’s novel, Argentina, Tierra de Amor y Venganza.
After seeing a brief scene from the strip, Mercedes praised her co-star, Benjamin Vicuna, who played his brother and with whom he had a toxic bond with incestuous overtones. “Benja is another chapter apart, he is such a beautiful partner. We laugh so much, we get so excited. He is very sensitive, Benjamin, and he is very nice to work with,” he began by describing his colleague.
And he added: “He is a partner who looks you in the eye, and for me acting happens when two actors look into each other’s eyes and that’s where it starts to flow,” he said. He then told what he asked Adrian Suar for the character of Alicia and how she found the way to make it her own.
“We were looking for him to speak like that. Adrián Suar told me at first that he liked the idea that she had some particularity, either in her appearance or in her voice, ”he explained.
And he explained: “We tried the aspect with a scar and then we saw that the character of Benjamín Vicuña already had a theme with his leg. So we went to the subject of speech and the ‘r’ began to appear ”, he recalled.
At the same time, he revealed what he did to practice Alicia’s way of speaking: “I tried to find a way and I remember that with Cecilio, with my husband, we started recording in February. We went on vacation in December and I was talking to him like Alicia for 20 days. I had to practice!” she held back between laughs as she spoke as the character.
To close, he said: “We were walking around Rome and I said ‘My, how beautiful the Vatican, we’ve done all this.’ He would listen to me and we would say ‘he has a lot of r’s or he has a lot of’. So Alicia’s speaking is as if you burned your tongue with mate and your tongue remains half asleep. It’s more or less like that, ”she confessed while clarifying that she tried to make it simpler to sustain it during the year and a half that the recordings lasted.
