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He was a virtuoso of the acting craft. A minstrel of the well-spoken word. And he was also the man for whom no circumstances in life Neither his long career nor the catastrophe of exile dimmed his devotion to the woman who was his true love, nor his endearing weakness for his two children.. If the stage was his suitcase full of poetry, his family was his treasure.
Héctor Benjamin Alterio Onoratolike his full name, led a private life so coherent that it was just as surely reflected in his artistic choices. Ethics. For one and for the other.
Hector Alterio, died this Saturday at the age of 96in the city Madridwhere he has lived since the 1970s, he has earned the respect of the art world and, above all, the public here and there.
If watching him perform, both in film and in the theater, was a tribute to art, listening to his thoughts in each of the interviews he conducted was a confrontation with the clear ideas that always brought clarity. And they always appeared in this saying: Angela Bacaicoahis wife and Serious And Malenathe heirs who also chose the path of art.
“I’m already paid for that.”he used to say when he took stock of his private life, which he never hid but preferred to keep to himself.
Discretion was his thing. Elegance in showing what was fair, understanding that viewers valued their work but didn’t need to be forced to take part in the personal hustle and bustle.
Old-fashioned modesty. Knight of Life; with local ancestry. Good-natured in his manner and determined in his thoughts.
“Like an angel, my angel. And if yours isn’t here, you’ll have to look elsewhere until you find it.” The words of Nino Belvedere, his character in the wonderful film The bride’s sonled by Juan Jose Campanella With extreme sensitivity and punctuality, it suits the actor well, who has found in his lifelong companion the woman who has been wife, sidekick, passion, ear and guide. Maybe the same qualities she would ascribe to him. So for that.
He loved football, that other love that took him from the obelisk and enthusiasm for Chacarita Juniors to worship of Gran Vía and Real Madrid.
In his personal life, however Ángela Bacaicoa was the woman who conquered more than just his heart and made him start a game of dialectical wisdom with her.. They could talk for hours about movies, books, history and life. And I always remember an Argentina that drove them out in 1975 with the terrible threats of the Triple A (Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance), one of the many horrors that permeated our country’s history.
TO Angela Bacaicoa they name them “Tita” and she was the woman who accompanied him in the laurels and in the obscurities of the darkest part of life. A coin always has two sides.
Alterio He had the odd love affair, but since 1969 her name was Ángela Bacaicoia the woman who absorbed the entirety of his marital feelings.
However, as a professional psychoanalyst, the actor found balance in the whirlpool of an artistic career without schedules, full of tours and full of hectic pace Alterio He always distanced himself from the bombastic and superfluous that sometimes accompanied his profession.
He was not the world of entertainment but the art of acting, calm, sensitive, profound and always with something transcendent to say.
bullying And Angela They joined in 1969, when he was already a respected figure in our country and had made his debut a long time ago Suicide banned in springfrom Alejandro Casonaand that he was part of the insurgents and valuable New theaterthe movement founded by Alejandra Boero And Pedro Asquini.
Hector Alterio And Angela Bacaicoa they had two children, Serious And Malenawho were born in 1970 and 1974 respectively. They are both from Buenos Aires, although they left the country in forced exile with their parents as young children.
The family’s first home Alterio In Madrid it was a hostel on Bravo Murillo street, in the neighborhood Tetouan. bullying And Angela They used to take long walks through the streets characterized by cultural diversity. They went to the market on Sundays with their very small children The way and then they continued their journey into the park The retreata free change in bad times.
The beginning was not easy, but the love of marriage managed to overcome the obstacles. Personalities like Norma Aleandro And Marilina Rossalso in exile, the accompaniment helped to make him feel less alone.
They didn’t make ends meet, but that never meant a career break or a change in the direction of their path. Persistent. When one faltered, the other was next to him. It was always like that.
Angela He developed his profession with prestige and bullyingSooner rather than later, it established itself strongly on the Spanish scene and became a name invoked and convened.
Serious And Malena Alterio They are recognized players on the Spanish market. Both have had very solid careers, highlighted by the public, critics and theatrical and audiovisual producers.
Although each carries his own identity in his creative processes, there is much of his father’s legacy in his way of constructing fiction and, above all, in the ethics with which he approaches the artistic task.
In his last years “Tita” She was a great artistic collaborator, responsible for curating the lyrics and directing her monologues. Like three thousand years ago And To Buenos Aireswhere in one of his speeches he confessed: “I have suffered in exile and continue to suffer from exile and I am the brother of all the exiles of the world.” His recent departure from the national stage was a glorious one.
In the last phase of his life, he tirelessly brought the show to the stage in Spain, also under the direction of his wife a little story. “I’m a psychoanalyst, but I wanted to accompany him in the last phase of his career because I enjoy watching him perform,” he said. Angela to a Spanish medium and made it clear that, despite her inclination towards art, writing and directing for her husband was an act of faith and love. The results were outstanding and moving.
And always spin the tango and Castilian poetry. Carlos Gardel And Leon Felipe. “No, no, I’m not even thinking about them firing me,” he said in an interview at the historic theater Queen Victoria from Madridwhere he premiered his latest adventure. At his side, always at his side, he pampered him Angela Bacaicoa. He fell asleep peacefully in his theater boots. Not even death means retirement. And much less the end of love.
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