translated from Spanish: Luciano Castro: “People starve and prices rise”

It was almost two months since that Thursday, March 20, when President Alberto Fernández established the beginning of social and preventive isolation in order to quell the contagion curve by COVID-19. With the request to stay at home, dozens of activities, shows and services were suspended: and among the most beaten items was made visible that of the artists. The theaters were closed, television strips were interrupted, and film was even discontinued. In this context, dozens of industry actors and workers – such as directors, sounders, illuminators, among others – expressed the call for the activity to be enabled and thus return to their occupations, and to their wages, indispensable for living. In this context, Luciano Castro stood in solidarity with his colleagues and spoke of how the pandemic impacts his profession and emphasized being “solidarity” in all hierarchies and tasks. 

“We’re going to have to start being all really generous and not out of mouth, or to listen to the gilada, to revive a country, I’m not just talking about actors anymore. From the television producer, to the one who sells eggs, but we are going to have a hard time,” said the actor, recently starring “Little Victoria”, in dialogue with Intrusos.Castro is fulfilling the isolation with his partner, Sabrina Rojas and his children, Fausto and Esperanza. “I at home the barbaric pass but the boys don’t, there comes a time when nothing is enough. There’s also a question of being teachers of the kids, there’s a whole pedagogy that we don’t have. They start playing a lot of things,” he said. I’m kiddinged at assholes who don’t abide by quarantine. I get a lot of time when quarantine isn’t met, because I find it hard to do it, but I do. I’m worried, I’m not angry, I’m going to make your cul… whatever you want but it can be catastrophic for everyone. I resent the little social awareness that there can be at times. I also try to understand the other part: the desperation of the people, the picket of yesterday, which is no less a manifestation respecting social estrangement. There are a lot of factors that you have to start revering possibilities so that this can start to flex. I continue to choose the richest dead,” he said.

About Fernandez’s actions, Castro was blunt: “How long has this government taken over? In December. In January (because in China it erupted at the end and beginning of the year even though it arrived here in March) they dropped a pandemic. I think of the president and the small table with his ministers. They must have the padded tip of so much sticking with their heads. That’s where we all have to be generous.” “I would like you to talk on time about what I have to do with tv, the artistic, the acting because I can’t get out of it because if I do it is where I start to sin and forget about the common sense that has to do with my other part of the speech. My speech comes at a time when it is not valid: I shower six times a day and like every day, it’s done, it comes out, it doesn’t need anything. And it’s not, what I’m defending are the rights of all actors, that includes me, and of an entire industry, I don’t even cross my mind to open a theater if the conditions are not given. If we can resume the tour (for his work “Naked”) it will be done, and if it will not be next year. It’s not up to us,” he closed. On flexibility
On Wednesday in Intrusos, Jorge Rial mentioned that the government is evaluating the possibility of the show returning to its activity. “The president has on an agenda for the flexibilization of quarantine, the issue of actors. What you’re seeing is the sanitary way to let this come out,” the driver said. For her part, Alejandra Darín, holder of the Association of Argentinian Actors met on 1 May with Fernández to evaluate this issue. Although for the time being, it stated that according to the decree issued by the Government it “is not an activity considered indispensable”. In this note:

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