Maia Reficco : The Argentinean who triumphs in Hollywood | FILO.

INTERVIEWED BY CAMILA ROMANAZZI AND ALDI

The experience of working on Broadway

The experience of doing Broadway was really the most inconceivable thing I have ever experienced and it really took me a lot of time and a lot of effort, very conscious of being able to even remotely realize what I was going through.

I think it's something that you don't even dare to dream about when you're a little girl. There were shows when I had a fever and I was about to get sick, but I was singing and it was like... “Oh, look, I'm on Broadway”. It was very, very, very, very, very surreal.

It was also like the beginning of a very important process for me, of really enjoying what I was doing. And besides, coming from the hand of justly. Sadly, there have been very few Argentines who have had that place on the Broadway scale. So I am very proud and I spoke in Spanish in the play that I added with the team. And it was exciting because every time I said things in Spanish someone shouted apart subtle Argentines we were not.

The Tik Tok trend of “Hadestown”

It is a work that is sustained by the material itself. So I think it gives room for each interpreter to shape it and give it body and history from each one's subjective. But I see these things for myself, I have nothing to do with them. So I'm excited as a fan of the work, I think it's spectacular to see that the theater also as a result of films like “Wicked” and the movement that is happening now, become, I will not dare to say cool because well, I have no idea, but it becomes much more massive.

I feel that the musical tetro always had a place a little bit like it had a lot of, idea. People have had a lot of idea and it amuses me a lot to see so many young people so much challenged by that, either by Tik Tok, or by a trend, or by movies like “Wicked”, with the scope of such a massive movie that gives place to young boys and girls to sing and feel good singing and to find identity and an embrace in that, I love it.

Maia Reficco and Jordan Fisher, as Eurydice and Orpheus

Theater is a root of social movement

The theater also has that immediacy, like the immediacy of the theater and how alive it is. And obviously that is a redundancy, but seeing it so close by people there in front of you, like it is very unconscious what happens to one's body, I feel, to me.

I am also a big fan of theater, so I think it is very little, objectively my opinion is really a root of much social movement, of social change, of also making these ideas that can be born in a much more private environment a little more massive, that is, I don't know, in the LGBTQ space, it has been the cradle of many movements and many spaces for people to meet, to feel comfortable, to expand.

I think it's very important, I think it's a very safe space for many communities throughout history.

Your experience on "Pretty Little Liars"

With Pretty Little Liars, it was very flashy.

I was a fan of the other guy. I found out I like women from one of the Pretty Little Liars, I was like really obsessed. It was kind of weird.

Then, well, what a surprise, for me, for my life, it was a lot of things that were great from a personal point of view, but also I don't know if, I mean, I had an English accent, I used to lie down, I was kind of reminded of it in the castings. The most special thing was like saying, maybe I can work here.

And from there one thing led to another and today nothing, I am grateful because it was the first project there that I was able to do nothing, that is to say I had a lot of burden in what, for being a “Pretty Little Liars” and I am very proud to have been able to do it and today I see myself as a “rechiquita”.

That project aged me because we recorded, I feel like 5 years. No, but it was very demanding.

Argentina is a country with great creative capacity in spite of leaders who try to hinder it

It seems to me that we are a country that has talent, predisposition, desire and a lot of creative capacity, despite institutions, political fugues, leaders that make the creation of this art impossible or try, not make it impossible, but really try to complicate it and make it as difficult as possible.

So I think that being part of, whether it is Argentine cinema, Argentine theater, anything of the Argentine arts that we are so aware of how difficult it is to make it happen and at the same time of the desire to do it, that being part of any of them would give me a lot of emotion.

I mean watch, "Argentina 1985", watch one of my favorite movies, I mean the answer, excuse me for saying so, we all saw it and it's recliché but "Relatos Salvajes" is really a fucking brilliant movie. It makes no sense how well made it is, how well acted it is, how well directed it is, how well written.

Everything about it is spectacular. So I think for me, it's a dream. I've never worked in film before, here.

I would love to work here, especially at a time when it is politically so difficult to do so

I have worked very little here.

I did my first job, I did theater and the truth is that I didn't do much here. So my yardstick is like “whoever wants to hire me, I'm here”, especially in times when politically it becomes so difficult to do so.

I had the privilege of doing a lot of things abroad and Argentina has nothing to envy, I mean, nothing at all, the only thing is that there is more money in other countries, because in the United States there is a lot of money. It is a redundancy and sadly here that part becomes more difficult. But the truth is that it is a country that has so much, so much, so much art, so much quality, that it would be a pleasure to do anything.

When I am abroad I miss everything about Argentina

I have no connection whatsoever with Yankee culture. So it is a country that cost me culturally. So I miss everything. I think maybe what I miss the least is certain little things of power. I don't know, driving by myself at night, I mean, I miss everything else, I miss my family, I miss the food, I miss the warmth.

Maia Reficco with her brother Joaco Reficco at Margarita Si Te Quiere concert

The relationship with art and his brother

Over the years that bond has only grown stronger. And he's my best friend, my favorite artist, the person I listen to the most, the person who farts on me. When I went, I had a time when I was an asshole. He came and slapped me and was like “Oh you're right”.

I trust my brother a lot in every way and as a big sister I love that he calls me to put out fires and I love that he trusts me. I feel that of everything that has happened to me in this life is what I am most thankful for and what I am most sorry that I hacked the Matrix and that I won, is with my brother because I swear that he is doing well too and seeing him so happy.

And what Margarita is doing is not a joke, I mean, it doesn't exist. I don't know, if in the world there is a character for boys and girls so massive that in such a human and pure and genuine and celebratory way is a Queer character, there is a non-binary character, it's really very special.

Maia Reficco at the studio

Is your first album coming?

The truth is that I dream about it.

That is, since... I mean, since I left my mother's side, it's really what I love the most. I've been writing this album for 5 years, and thank God, heaven and the Virgin Mary, I've already sent it to be mixed. So that's it, and I really love making music, it makes me so happy and I think that also from the hand, that has cost me a lot to get it out because I love it. And it doesn't depend on how it goes but obviously there is that factor and that factor terrifies me, but I really want to do it and to finally cheer myself up and lower a thousand changes to the expectation and the pressure and everything that I put on myself that no one else puts on me that is just self-invented that is for me from me. And enjoy it and do it.

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