The return of the classic “Long journey from day to night” is one of the great novelties on the Buenos Aires billboard. From the hand of the Buenos Aires Theater Complex, This text written by Eugene O'Neill once again brings together in a leading role the couple made up of Arturo Puig and Selva Aleman who, along with an excellent cast, carries out an unmissable performance under the direction of Luciano Suardi.

The family is completed with Diego Gentile and Lautaro Delgado Tymruk, who step into the shoes of brothers Jamie and Edmund Tyrone, while Julia Gárriz is Cathy, the domestic employee who has the large mansion recreated in the Casacuberta Room of the CTBA.

For his work as one of the Tyrone brothers, The sidewalk interviewed Diego Gentile who maintained that the first time he learned about his character was “during my training with Arezzo” and added that he “knew” the work, “but I didn't have it that much in mind”. For this reason, “when I read it it was an emotion.”, “the possibility of saying these texts does not always come”.

How did you prepare to play an actor who hates being an actor??

I didn't think of it as part of the character.. In general, things that are so big and so difficult to face, as little tangible as sensations or thoughts, when the text is so well written, I rely on that and on the views of my colleagues and the director.. There is something there that one dives into and trusts that we all want to tell the same story. The idea of ​​the actor who hates being an actor didn't even cross my mind., That look is pretty too. But it doesn't matter, because Jamie himself doesn't care either.

Gentle at every moment highlights the weight and quality, arguing that O'Neill's work “has things to say, with importance” since “it describes the bonds of a broken family whose members love each other and also allow each other to hate”.

About his character Jamie, The actor defines it as very “dual”, resentful and luminous”. He is a character “so frustrated and vital and everything mixed up”. Added to all this is “the fact of doing it from Wednesday to Sunday.”, which is like jumping into a playmobil pool, That's why what it generated in me was pure adrenaline and emotion.".

How do you define Jamie's character in the eyes of his father??

The look of his father, It's partly his frustration.. It is one of those mandates and obligations that you feel on your shoulders.. This father is a first actor who wants his son to want to be vital with something.

However, as the work progresses, The viewer will see how Jamie in a moment begins to let go of that life dreamed of by his father. “In high school he started taking, to frequent brothels and realize that he didn't care about life, or that life was that”, Gentile explained. “Jamie is under the gaze and command of his father all day long who says 'you have to do something', 'you have to be someone' and he doesn't want to. He does it despite himself, but he reproaches him for it.", adds.

What are the feelings of showing up week after week with so many functions??

It is very nice to start knowing that tickets are selling out for all performances., that is the magic of belonging to the official theater, at the level of accessing a popular entrance, plus the opportunity to see Arturo and Selva and listen to a classic.

What were the rehearsals like and what was it like interacting with such an important couple from the Argentine show business??

I knew them both from having crossed paths with them at the Multiteatro when I did “Toc-Toc” for many years and they did “Le Prenom” and “Mothers and Children.”, but we had never worked together. It was very beautiful.

I trained watching Arturo and Silvia doing “Atreverse”, I saw them writing revolutionary texts and I told myself “I want to be an actor to say those texts” and I told them when we started rehearsals..

Why do you think O'Neill's work remains so relevant after so many years??

Because it talks about things that are universal and that do not expire.. In this text there is a broken family, with pain. A family that loves each other, but he gets hurt. That same text can be put into an adaptation in a few years and it will be perfect. We are four members of a family (and I don't count Juli Gárriz because she is oblivious to what happens to us) crossed by these pains. I think it's so well written., This family is told so well that it can be adapted now, in 1910 or en 2070, which will always be reading material.