2023-07-12 11:04:00
When I think of Married with Children, I can’t stop thinking regarding those summer followingnoons with my godfather. He rented a house with a pool and with my brother and my grandmother we spent whole weeks playing and having a good time. But following lunch, we had an inevitable routine: until our food was gone, we would turn on the TV and Pepe Argento would appear before our eyes to make us cry with laughter.
His chemistry with María Elena and the set of black humor occurrences that conquered the audience were impregnated in our unconscious and we repeated it over and over once more. We even wanted the table to have a little unevenness to want to throw it into the air like the most curmudgeonly shoemaker on television did.
We watched the series over and over once more to hear Pepe’s anecdotes. It was everything that was wrong, without a doubt, but we were there laughing at his political improprieties, his black jokes, his love for Racing and his incomparable “guttural sounds” (highlighted in the video El Multiverso Francella de I sum it up just like that). ).
I know that Guillermo Francella did not marry the Argentos and that even his character is not the first nor the most iconic in national fiction, but for me he is the most significant. That’s where my fanaticism for him and the rest of his magnificent performances were born.
The iconic characters of Guillermo Francella
Pepe Argento was one of the many meeting points that I had with my godfather until days before his death. We used to argue regarding everything, but neither of us dared to question Francella’s work. we loved it. Her papers blew our heads away and we stayed for hours talking regarding her most brilliant gestures.
His participation in The Secret in Their Eyes seemed delusional to us. We felt that that moment of illumination when he talked regarding soccer was more him than Pablo Sandoval’s own character. Maybe it was part of the narrative intent of the story, but we didn’t care.
Ephemeris
There was always something in that look that captivated our bones and made us cry seriously with his departure, that unjust murder with which he saved his friend Benjamín Esposito (Ricardo Darín). Perhaps it is that spicy/adorable mix that each of his characters brings that prints his mark and makes every fiction with him a good art, even in some productions that (in my humble opinion) were not so good, like the case of Hail.
That convergence of acidity, intelligence and passion that Francella has makes characters like the romantic León Godoy from the film Corazón de León and Eliseo’s manipulative janitor from the series The Manager are brilliant products and opposites at the same time.
The man who makes the people happy
Guillermo has the ability to adapt to both comedic and dramatic roles, leave his mark on them and detach himself from them over time. I think the actor has a difficult task of detaching himself from Pepe Argento because this is one of the most iconic characters in the popular imagination.
Capable, Moni Argento’s husband retains some of Francella’s most real gestures, in addition to his love for the club of his life and the ability to critically represent the worst of Argentina. Or simply because the meme is pure pregnancy.
Be that as it may, Guillermo is one of the most important Argentine figures in film and television because you not only enjoy watching him act, but also listening to him speak, as he generates a climate of tremendous interviews.
Some time ago, Francella went through Playroom, Migue Granados’ program for ESPN, and recounted the madness that broke out in Cuba when he went to a film festival in Havana following the success of his Poné a Francella program.
Migue Granados and Guillermo Francella in “Playroom”
There he said that he personally met Fidel Castro who watched the program and even had the episodes recorded on VHS. “He told me the best line I’ve heard in years. He greets me, hugs me and he told me: ‘Are you aware of what it means to make a people happy?’ It was an unforgettable thing”, revealed the actor.
And yes, without a doubt Francella makes more than one town happy. After having the opportunity to see him perform live to enjoy the quasi-renewed jokes of him as Pepe Argento, this phrase became more relevant. It is a pleasure to see how people receive him in a sea of cheers and applause, but it is even more pleasing to see him standing there, with his long beard, a lopsided smile and his head bowed, waiting for absolute silence to set out, once once more, to dance on stage, between scripts and sarcasm; between laughter and forgetfulness; and between reality and fiction.
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