The Martín Fierro returned with all the honors. The great festival of the entertainment world, organized by the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists (APTRA) brought together local celebrities at the Hilton Hotel in a party that waited three years. And if there is a figure that took all eyes, that was Mirtha Legrand.
The lunch diva attended accompanied by her family. She first spoke on the red carpet, where she celebrated face to face following so long. “We return to the good, to the beautiful, to meet all of us, the winners, the non-award winners. It is the great party of Argentine television. And I am always present. This party has been held for more than 50 years and it is an event. Can’t you see the people there? Is awesome. It’s a reunion”, she assured enthusiastically.
Mirtha sat next to her daughter Marcela, her grandchildren Juana and Nacho, and her great-granddaughter Ámbar, who finally attended the event. Halfway through the gala, she experienced one of the most emotional moments in the history of the awards. It happened following In Memorialwhen among the memory of those who left us in the last three years, appeared his brother José María and his twin Goldy. Susana’s containment hug, who crossed the room to be with her, goes straight to the story.
After a while Mirtha received a great joy. It was when Susana herself announced the award for best driver, one of the most important, among whom were Karina Mazzocofor in the followingnoon, Florence Penafor team flower Veronica Lozanofor Cut by Lozano y… Juana Viale, for Having lunch with Mirtha Legrand.
When she heard her name, Juana hugged her daughter and then went to meet her grandmother, who was moved once more but this time with happiness. In the background, the unmistakable melody of a classic of more than 53 years was playing, which in the last two years and since the pandemic broke out, Juana captained except for two exceptions in which Mirtha led. The winner ran to the stage where she hugged Susana and began her speech, while her grandmother might not hold back her tears and she was held back by her grandson and producer, Nacho Viale, and Susana’s daughter. she Marcela Tinayre.
“I never thought I would win a Martín Fierro in driving, my thing is acting, and the things in life took me where I am”, admitted the actress, referring to the imponderables that led her to be where she was. “It was rowing something that she did not know but she did inherit,” she pointed out to Mirtha and before thanking her family, her voice filled with emotion.
Later, it was Mirtha herself who went on stage. And she did it with all the lights. First, he asked for more applause for her “What a welcome a little cold, more warm” -, following she shared her joy and emotion for Juana’s award, and later put order in the room. “A little silence back there please”, she asked briskly before telling how her time off television had been.
“I was locked up in my house for 300 days without going out on the balcony, until one day I called Facundo Manes and told him that I wanted to be the one from before. And he told me, ‘work, Mirtha’”, he recounted. And to make the neurosurgeon’s words come true, he first publicly compromised El Trece: – “There you have Nacho Viale to ask him if I’m coming back or not” -, and then submitted the decision to the sovereign. “Do you guys want me to come back?” he asked, getting a resounding yes for an answer.
At your side, respectful, Luis Ventura, president of APTRA, was waiting for his turn to give him a gift from the jewelry store that sponsors his historic program. Mirtha thanked and recounted the nerves she had felt in the previous one. “Last night I mightn’t sleep, I thought what to say. And I have felt so happy tonight that I have discovered that the only thing I like is to be among my peers, and accompanied by my loved ones. They have made me a very happy woman tonight.”.
What followed was a retrospective of his career, going back to his debut in Orchid Tuesdays, when she was only 14 years old and “didn’t know how to walk in high heels”. She went through some of the troubles of the profession without rancor – “I was prohibited, I never knew why, I didn’t ask” -, and she referred very excited to her brothers Josecito y Goldy. And finally, she chose some forceful words for his future: “What a miraculous life, I never stopped working until today. I am 95 years old, and you have to be here at 95 years old. I promise and swear that I will continue working. I do not lower my arms, I love them very much”closed to standing applause from the entire room.
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