2023-10-26 00:00:30
Ricardo Darín criticized the North American version of Nine Queens (Video: I dreamed that I was flying, Olga)
This Wednesday Ricardo Darín was a guest on Soñé que volaba, Migue Granados’ stream on Olga. In one part of the conversation, the driver asked him about the American version of the successful Nine Queens, the film in which the actor starred in 2000 alongside Gastón Pauls, with a script and direction by Fabián Bielinsky, who died in 2006.
Let us remember that the remake in question was called Criminal, it was released in 2004, it was directed by Gregory Jacobs and it starred a very Hollywood cast made up of John C. Reilly, Diego Luna and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Despite the names, the film was not a commercial success, nor was it well recognized by specialized critics. And, as it became known today, it does not have Darín’s approval either.
“Did you see the movie of the Yankee version of Nine Queens?” Migue asked him. “Yes,” the actor responded. “Did it seem like a dick to you?” the driver wanted to know. “One cock is not enough,” Darín concluded without filters and causing laughter from everyone in the studio. “They didn’t understand anything,” Chino and Clara Darín’s father then added.
“To begin with, if anyone saw her, her name is Criminal. The two guys are in a Mercedes, which is fine, it’s not the latest model, but it is a Mercedes. And the story of Nine Queens is that of two guys on foot doing yeites in the street. And they also made the wrong cast, because John C. Reilly has a very trustworthy face. And in the United States – and I say this with all the love and respect I have for the Luna boy – he is not exactly the image of the most trustworthy. And here it was the other way around. Here Gastón was the good guy and I was the shitter. They made a bad reading,” Darín argued his position.
Ricardo Darín and Gastón Pauls in Nine Queens
On the other hand, Darín revealed an anecdote that presents the panorama with which the American producer faced the version without wanting the Argentines to intervene in it. “Besides, we were already angry from the start. Because poor Fabián Bielinsky, crack, when they bought the rights to make the remake, he with the best vibes and the best good faith, found out that they were going to make it in Los Angeles. And through his representative, he suggested they go see a day of filming. The representative made the arrangements and what came back was: ‘Not only are they not inviting you, but you can’t come to the set,'” the actor said, surprising the program’s table.
“They never gave a reason. But they must have thought that the guy wanted to get involved or have some kind of interference. And not. I wish he had gotten in. What happened would not have happened, everything was bad,” Darín evaded.
Finally, he said that both he and Bielinsky were able to see Criminal before its commercial release. “When they made it and brought it here to see if they would release it in Argentina, the company called us and gave Fabián and me a private message. The movie started and we started looking at each other. We looked at each other from the side while the movie was going on. And when we left, Fabián told them: ‘Don’t release this here because they are going to kill you,’” Ricardo closed with a laugh.
“Personally it is really very important, it is one of those jobs that one can feel proud of, it being difficult in our work to use that term because sometimes we question some things we did. Nine Queens is a work that gave me a lot of learning, a lot of joy, which was, as I said before, a very important push on my path,” Ricardo Darín told Teleshow when 20 years passed since the premiere of Bielinsky’s debut film. , to whom he also dedicated glowing words. “I will definitely never be able to thank him for giving me that character and that script that he worked on with so much love and dedication for so long,” he highlighted.
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