He says I should rehearse Let’s go, the childrenwhich premieres on January 2nd at the Multiteatro Directed by Federico Palazzo, it’s like spending time with friends. And you’re right, because Osvaldo Laport meet Antonio Grimau, Osvaldo Santoro and Raúl Lavié for many years. “They are friends for life. We did that with Antonio.” broken by love in recent seasons and on television beyond the horizon And I am a gypsy. We did it with Osvaldo Santoro Championsand with Raúl Lavié, Franco Buenaventura. “Federico also directed me in this novel,” he explains. Laport is one of the first to arrive in a modern apartment in the Palermo area, where they have been rehearsing for the first month. He comes with his thermos full of water and cloves, which he drinks throughout the lecture, and talks about his childhood, his parents and siblings who are no longer here, and the connection he has with them. He also talks about his wife, the actress Viviana Saez, and his daughter Jazmín, actress and singer. He recognizes himself as a spiritual person and reflects on the passage of time.
-Start working in 2026…
– Yes, when I finished crafting The Little Mermaidthe producer Carlos Rottemberg He told me about work. And I celebrate it because in Carlos I first discovered a great professional and a great producer in our environment, and then The Little Mermaid A beautiful relationship of complicity, respect, conversations and laughter was also created. Let’s go, the children It is an adaptation of Fede de The hearing aida work of his father. Jorge Palaz, who won first prize National Endowment for the Arts an unpublished piece from 2009. So the rehearsals have an unusual advantage, which is related to the fact that you know each other very well… Beyond a text that is about four friends, there is a real friendship. So yes, 2026 begins the work and year one also begins again, because it is year nine that a cycle ends. I’m talking about portals and energy, a topic that has interested me greatly for years. To explain it in a simple way: Life goes through periods of nine years… Out of ignorance, I felt that something happened to me throughout my life in terms of successes and happy and not so happy moments. Something made a noise inside me and I started counting and it was always between seven and nine years. When I began to study the topic of portals and energies, I understood that they were cycles of the universe. And it is not that nothing will change, but that the energies will be renewed
-You were always a very spiritual person…
-Yes, but I’m much more sensitive. That’s why I’m so excited to be working with friends on this play, which is exactly about four lifelong friends navigating a reality that audiences will identify with. My character, Oscar Barilati, is a pianist who has dreamed of becoming famous all his life. He never made it and agreed to work with a singer who had a career and that is the character of Raúl. It is a sensitive text that talks about the expiry date, although no one wants to take responsibility. But it has nothing to do with death, but with dignity, the passage of time and the things that are lost. My character has very strong sandwiches, for example: “We, the dry ones, need to entertain ourselves with hope and invent something that makes us feel alive.” And it’s true.
-Do you feel identified with the character?
-I feel identified. And not because I’m 69 years old, but because it has to do with my philosophy of life. Many will identify with the unfair reality in which we live and show little consideration for the individual and grandparents. However, my character is a song to live by. The work is a song of hope. It is an understanding that the years don’t matter because excitement and hope are always there. And there is also the possibility of earning a living again without having to depend on anyone.
-You are not afraid of the passing of the years…
-Not at all… And I proudly say that I am 69 years old.
-Any secret?
-Go home, even if it is 10 p.m., and do gymnastics every day if possible. And I’m doing it so I can get back up in a few years. For health, to take care of myself physically. I’m not talking about aesthetics, but about having the strength to be able to accompany the years that remain to me. When I was younger, I did it for professional reasons, aesthetic reasons and because of the demand of the characters that the products called to me. And even today, after 46 years of relationship, we continue to enjoy seducing ourselves with Viviana.
-Forty-six years of love! Quite an adventure.
Clear. And we are doing very well. Vivi is at her shows and our daughter Jazmín presented her EP, which can now be found on all platforms. It’s called “How Precious Time Is” and has to do with who they are and how far away their grandparents are (all four of whom have already died). So your videos, presentation and writing are great; She writes, she makes the music and the videos consist of pictures of her grandparents.
-When Jazmín left home, did the famous suffer from being an empty nester?
-I think that in our historical philosophy of life the fact that he became independent had already been overcome. However, I may be the biggest crybaby (laughs). But of course I don’t cry, but I celebrate when he’s home. We have a good relationship with our daughter and also with Viviana, they have a shop called La Cápsula, which sells painted clothing. And Jazmín has a production company called Madres Producciones with her partner Boris Bakst (also an actor).
-Is this life philosophy you are talking about something innate within you or have you discovered it over the years?
-The Udaquiola Laports were an atypical family in the city where I was born (Juan Lacaze, Uruguay). My father did theater and so did my older brother. Unfortunately, I no longer have my parents or my two older brothers; One was a sculptor and all the sculptures in the city belong to him. The other was a journalist. That leaves my sister, who lives in Uruguay…. Both of my male brothers left and I wasn’t in either game, but something very strange happened.
-The?
-The special thing was that in both games I was shooting films far away, outside of Buenos Aires. We had no reception, were cut off in the middle of nowhere and suddenly my phone started “ping… ping… ping”. I don’t know how many missed calls… The sculptor had died. What was the name of the film I made? dead man. And when my other brother, the journalist, died, exactly the same thing happened. What was the name of the film? departure.
– Now that you’re changing the decade, do you take stock?
-No, I never did that. I never took inventory. I travel, I go through life.
-Do you miss the time when you wrote so many novels?
-NO. It was a good stage and that was it. I am grateful, I admit that I was privileged because, moreover, it was not supposed to be about a heartthrob, but the producers knew that there was a crazy person who dared to give everything and play strange characters like Catriel, Guevara, the gypsy, so many that they were no longer repeated. This also happened to me in the theater sector, because e.g Siddhartha I was the father of Siddhartha, because The Little Prince’s Symphony I was the aviator, for The Little Mermaid I was Triton. They are strong characters. I have always been resilient because I never relied on it.
-Do you feel touched by the wand?
-I believe that more than a wand we have a certain destiny. I have been an ambassador for 20 years. UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and sometimes he asked me why and how I arrived. And I remembered my mother always saying that when I was little I asked her for a big eraser to erase the geographical boundaries of the world. And I was eight or nine years old. I come from a very humble family; I don’t know what arrangement my father made to send us to the village priest school. We would get a scholarship, I never knew that, and when they couldn’t pay it, they sent us to the only school in the state. I recorded this very much. I had a teacher who asked us to draw the outline of the map of Uruguay with the various indigenous settlements, and I did that and drew something else in the middle of the map. Very proudly, I went to show her and she asked me what it was. “Jesus to protect the Indians,” I replied. And he slapped me. I remember asking my mom for a Santa Claus costume at that age too. There was no mango at home, but since she was a seamstress, she made me a suit out of crepe paper so that I could be with my friends on Christmas Eve. From then on, every December 24th, I dress up as Santa Claus, and if one of my loved ones is not with me that day, Santa Claus appears again on the 31st because they ask me to (laughs)… And I give out gifts and hugs. That’s where I found the answer.
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