Hugo Moyano sued producer Adrián Suar and protagonist Julio Chavez, arguing that the recently released miniseries is based on his life. The lawyer of the union leader, Daniel Llermanos, assured in dialogue with AM 530 radio that “it is evident” that refers to Moyano “by the color of the flags and the name of the characters, the physical resemblance and even the name of the secretaries”.
On the lawsuit, Chávez who plays in fiction the leader of the trade union UTCA (Union of Meat Workers), defended himself on Radio with you, against the accusations and considered that “if he had been called to play the role of any particular trade unionist , with identity, I would have said no.”
“I don’t do fictions, I don’t demand, or order, or choose a character to say ‘I’m talking about him.’ I don’t do that,” the actor said.
“The Veron Tiger is not Hugo Moyano, it is the Veron Tiger. I’m sorry the trip stops there. The journey is much more universal than that, but who am I? I also have people who stop me and say, ‘You’re my uncle. I see you do the roast and you’re my uncle.’ And maybe I see that person’s uncle and say that’s not the Tiger Veron, but who am I to say?” he argued on the show that Reynaldo Sietecase.Llermanos had also argued: “(…) Make the life of the Moyano family, saying that any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence… here the coincidence is so big that it’s a copy. What it is meant to say and show is false.” In the face of this, Chávez separates the elements of fiction and ensures the presence of “winks”, which are not related to taking a point story and representing it on screen. “Of course it tells the story of a trade unionist. And there are winks. If I make a doctor’s life, I have to use it. They are archetypal elements of the story,” he replied.
Chavez responded to Moyano’s lawsuit for “El Tigre Verón”
“If the question is to have hurt anyone’s susceptibility, I apologize. I’m sorry in my soul, I don’t mean to. I made it to Tiger Verón from fiction and defended him to death. He’s a warlord, I’m sorry, “he said.” I’m not going to shut anyone’s mouth, that’s what happens to the other. I don’t do fictions, I don’t sue or order. I tell the story of a chieftain who tries to maintain his power by playing to defend his tribe in a corrupt system,” he added. He then emphasized the aspect of the plausibility that an actor builds on set. “I am not an actor to criticize the human being, but to look at it. I’m lucky enough to be able to build lies, in a way that makes people feel like they’re true. There are still leading people who are grateful for how it was depicted in ‘The Pointer,'” she said.
Chavez responded to Moyano’s lawsuit for “El Tigre Verón”
“I’m telling stories, and this story is called ‘The Veron Tiger’, I’m telling a humanity far away to me. And it’s a pleasure to be a warlord, a human being who thinks he’s doing things right. To me, the Veron Tiger is a slob. I don’t model trade unionists. The Tigre Verón is a warlord, a chieftain, an argentinity that exists in thousands of places,” he added. To close, he talked about the “animal” side of the character, which can be linked to the nickname by which he is identified. “Violence is part of animality, it’s called Tigre Verón, so much animality that it’s able to tell his brood, his son, don’t mess with me because I’m tearing you apart. And that’s what animals do, capable of tearing their young to survive,” he concluded.
Last week, fiction’s resemblance to reality came to television. In his program, journalist Jorge Rial accused Suar built a new kind of genre “publifiction”, a reference to promoting a certain political ideology in campaign times. Let’s remember, “El Tigre Verón” premiered a month after the PASO.
