Your life at 88 years old and how old do you plan to live?

There was a time when Rodolfo Ranni He frightened the clergy and the family mothers’ association and was summoned by justice. Era when He ate Gerardo Romano’s mouth out on camera It prompted Cardinal Quaracino to ask the Four Winds to lift the miniseries Risk zone.

to That scandal seems like a joke today It’s been a little over 30 years and several lives have passed for the sake of the Tanu. He’s 88 years old, has over 1,000 figures down his spine, has been remarried for 44 years, has been a “non-smoker for 36 years”, and has transcended many social role models.

“Why do I keep working? What will I do while sitting?He grumbles and looks at ease. “Actors only stop acting when they die. “You have to work, there is no other choice, because it is still difficult to buy things at the Chinese store on the corner, and because it is a privilege to act: there are actors who now drive Uber.”.

Rani speaks with her lungs working hard due to her pneumonia, which is being attacked by medications, yet there are no half solutions. Take a side, get air where there’s no air, adjust the notes, turn up the intensity. It’s in Engineer Machwitz’s paradise, the farm where he likes to lose cell phone signal and where few can locate him.

Go spinning with Let’s negotiatea comedy directed by Ernesto Medela with Marta Gonzalez, and in just over a month it will arrive in Cordoba to do the season. “We go to Carlos Paz, but also to the whole province, city by city. I love bringing theater around the home of people who might never go to the theater because there’s no theater. I love performing on the basketball court“.

He says that youth is in his voice, in the unchangeable chords. That there are no anti-aging secrets, no recipes for eternal youth. “I eat well, drink wine, and rarely take medications. There were two sides in my family: they either died young or very old. I’m part of a long-lived band“.

Longevity also comes at a price: skin with multiple pains, and foundational memory The home of death where he spent his first ten years until a ship that sailed at sea for 35 days brought him to Argentina.

He grew up in Trieste, the city of Vajana (currently Croatia), He grew up in front of the water with the sight of floating World War II corpses. One wonders how the psyche of a child playing in the midst of terror, seeing weapons, explosions, and blood while playing hide-and-seek, is regulated. “Even though I played with grenades, I was happy despite everything. Everyday life was waking up with the dead and seeing if their hands were tied with barbed wire.. “It happened so long ago that I can’t talk about it, but I remember it exactly.”

“I arrived on December 13, 1947. On the boat, from Genoa, we traveled with my mother, father, brother and sister. My parents had two brothers in Argentina who owned restaurants. After a year of living in this country, my father died of liver cancer. I cried every day, because I wanted to go home. I have no doubt that this is my home. I’m very Argentinian“.

His Argentinity is told in brilliant cinematic scenes. One to frame, for example, that Rankingby Fernando Ayala in which he plays A government company foreman bribes neighbors to install running water. But it’s in the movie In retreat Where the highest dissonance is generated. The song “El Oso” was written by A Torture and rapist monster Which ends with the “occupation” with the arrival of democracy.

He doesn’t want to talk politics, but he does at some point. “I’m not an analyst of anything, but I’ll tell you A tale from Argentina in 1947, when I arrived, that will tell you everythingsuggests. “At my uncle’s restaurant in Paraguay and Alim, I had a first course, a main course, dessert, a quarter glass of wine and coffee, all for one peso. It’s accessible.”

-At the same time, many children had to go out to work to help at home…

– Yes, at ten, when I had just arrived, I asked one of the merchants for a job. “What do you know how to do?” He asked me and offered me a job. “I don’t have a bathroom and I pee in the trash. If you go every morning and throw your pee down the drain, I’ll give you 50 cents.” I asked him to pay me with Tita’s cake instead. My first salary was Tita.

– Do you feel that your age of 88 has passed in the blink of an eye, or do you have a long idea of ​​time?

– I don’t think about it, but I have a theory: the future does not exist, only the past exists. And I don’t know what I’ll do after a while, but I know that I still have a lot of past to live up to. I promised my daughter, Estefania, that I would live to be 105. I am a man who keeps his promises.

The most entertaining definition was given by Gerardo Romano. He pointed to the man “The best prostitute in Argentina.” Rodolfo burst out laughing, thankful, and admitted that it amused him, but he had broken the myth. “I’m not a prostitute in everyday life. When I do, I do it in Italian.” “I will not reproduce what I say.”

His colleagues know that there is no hypocrisy in Rani. His virtue or flaw, depending on how you look at it, is brutal honesty. This is approved by Ileana Calabro, who initially shared the play’s cast. BotticiIn which she played the role of her daughter with Mirtha LeGrand and Juan Carlos Calabro.

“His thing is good food, good table, good wine. He’s able to be in Cordoba and go to Alta Gracia for some good rapas.”. He once made his own sausages on his farm. He is a great enjoyer of life. Sybarite, comfortable, low-key. Have fun without tools.”

In 2006, Eliana was his “enemy”, reaching the finals alongside Rodolfo Dell Singing for a dream. “Tanu sings very well and I ended up beating him,” he laughs. “This made my father very embarrassed, as he called Tinelli the day before to ask that the award go to both of us.” “Rani left angry and fine. He says up front everything he feels. “I’m impressed that it’s not two-sided.”

in the beginning There was no clear artistic career, but there was a fantasy about money in this field. He was a student at the Franco Argentina Insurance Company when he was caught in the theater at the age of fifteen. With a father gap and the need to be heard, he joined an independent group Which included Onofre Lovero and Haydeé Padilla: they ended up founding Payró.

To the man who was Enzo Ferrari in the Coppola series, who was a mayor and a member of a lodge Heirs of revenge And the head of the nightclub in Crazy cage, His art earned him unexpected presidential praise, but also some police concerns.

In 1984, for example, He visited the Government House at the invitation of Raúl Alfonsínwon the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for the film There will be no more sadness or forgetfulness. But in 1992, The police went to Channel 13 to look for him.

with Risk zonea cycle in which he played the role of Alberto, a man in love with Juan Carlos who is able to reveal his tenderness and sensually whisper in his ear “I love you too, you silly one”, in the form of Rani Part of what magazines defined as “chansha television”. The case reached court.

Judge Amelia Peraz de Vidal ordered the tape to be seized Where Romano was using drugs. They accused the artists of “apologizing for the crime.” Finally, the issue was put aside, and the weekly newspapers began talking about her “sexy belly”: “I don’t carry a rat detector.”He answered with a dog face.

“Perito” from toco, rani ho “Capotavula”. In Italian, I mean Head of the tableThat brings family and friends together like a magnet. His farm, La Redonda, which he has owned for half a century on hectares he bought to relive part of his childhood in Italy, is the unifying point of the clan.

From the two “card marriages” he went through, Estefania, Eleonora, Carolina, and Victoria were born. The first two are results Relationship with actress Alejandra da Bassano (who died in 2014). He falls short of his love for Sylvia.

He left Maschwitz in 1987, after a robbery, and settled in San Isidro, but the quiet of the place made him return and fill his space with chickens, horses, pigs and geese. In 2001, he moved to Spain and returned to it in 2005, convinced that he wanted to die in Argentina.

“I keep my family’s privacy to myself. There are issues that I don’t like to share, because… Deep down I’m really embarrassed,” he swears.

-shameful? He never noticed that…

-I was always like this. When I was a child, some relatives made me sing the cazonita and I did it out of shame. This has not changed. How it hasn’t changed at this point is that I get nervous when I do my first show. This is the moment when I want to premiere another movie and I can go the next day.

-Is this fear of rejection, error, or what?

– It is the fear of fraud and failure to assume responsibility. But I forget quickly. I could have a 42 degree fever, get on stage and since the character doesn’t have a fever, I swear I don’t have a fever for the duration of the play. Moreover, I am an ostensible actor.

-What does that mean? Have you ever gotten dizzy?

– No, I am only an actor when I act. I don’t like people who have a face to what they do. The real appreciation is being in people’s kitchens for 70 years. I live a normal life. I like to wear espadrilles and walk on dung.