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It’s 9 in the morning, Eugenia Tobal He has already taken his daughter Ema to school and is preparing to talk to THE NATION. So far this day she has not yet received notifications in mommies’ chat (although it is early, the minutes before school starts can be fatal in this means of communication). But at night, another “mommy chat” awaits her, the one she shares with Manuela Pal, Carla Conte, Mica Riera, Karina Hernández, Lionel Arostegui and Berenice Gandullo from Wednesday to Sunday in the Multitabaris and in which She transforms into Becky, a mommy who looks nothing like her. and that reveals his comedian side.
Motherhood, guilt, mandates and school are exclusive themes of the work and also of the interview, since the actress is the mother of 6-year-old Ema, whom she fervently desired and sought and with whom she tries to enjoy every moment. Furthermore, he referred to his departure from Masterchef Celebrity and at the abrupt end of cooking schoolthe gastronomic series of El Nueve that had her as host at the beginning of the year and that lasted only a few weeks.
—What is Becky, your character in? Mommy’s chat, a comedy at school?
—I like it, Ezequiel (Corbo) gave me the chance to choose the character, there were two and when I thought about Becky I went for that one, because I want to be seen more in comedy… I always did more dramatic things. Becky is a very big transformation, she is a mother who is present with her daughter but in the wrong way, she tries to give her the best but not in the best way. I try to find edges where I can defend her and she has a lot of nice things, because she shows a certain empathy at one point.
—And it is also physically demanding because you even change your voice, for example.
—Yes, it is a big job that I have to do to support, because it is a fairly thick line that we all do and I try to make it credible. She is a mother with time, a pink mother who leads a lighter life outside, a nouveau riche. They are going to have fun because there are many situations where one identifies. We talk about something that challenges us.
—How do you get along with mommy chat in real life?
—Talk about who we parents are, not who the children of those chats are. It is a world, and regarding the characters, each of us has a little of these little monsters mixed together, a mix of several mommies, and the truth is that reality surpasses fiction. The chats are spectacular because they make a lot of things easier for you and I am calm, I don’t look at what’s happening all the time.
—What mommy are you?
—The older mom, the fifty-something, the menopausal mom. The one I am the least is Becky, which is great because it amuses me and it was the challenge, being able to play on stage, it transformed me mentally.
—Emma is in first grade, is the chat on fire?
—I thought it would be more active, before it was more colorful, now the reading, the little notebook… I get dizzy. When this is the case, I go to the subgroup and ask separately. Emma goes to the same school she went to in kindergarten, which is secular, a community of alumni parents who formed a civil association, there is a community thing.
—Did you have a graduation celebration last year?
—No, there was an event like every year. They made a t-shirt with the drawings they made, but luckily not more than that.
—Does your girl profile an artist?
—He is very sociable, he does sports gymnastics. The actress looks out, at any moment she will ask me something; He’s liked it long before I did. I was very shy, I didn’t like makeup or coquetry and she did, for example. I started studying acting at 15, in Ramos Mejía, and my first job was at 20. But before that I was embarrassed to participate in events.
—How did that passion awaken at 15?
—It had to do with the fact that my brother was studying at a cultural center and we went to see him and I had fun. The following year I started and he didn’t want to know anything else. I took classes with Carlitos Moreno (died in 2014), he was my first teacher.
—His son Rodrigo Moreno is director (The criminals, in 2023, she was the Argentine representative at the Oscars), did you work with him?
-No. With Carlos we had a very nice connection that motivated me to continue. Later I continued in Capital with other teachers, but he was the first who saw something. “You are my cock” he told me. I also taught classes, but now I took some time because with theater it gets complicated, you have to go out almost every night and your family structure changes, with Ema we have a very close bond, I put her to bed and the logistics change.
—Do you feel guilty?
—I worked on guilt a lot in my therapies. It bothers me because at first it’s hard for Ema (when she starts a new play), but then I try to teach her secure attachment, so I come back, I take her to the theater so she knows where mom is. Talking about it with the psychologist, one has to live and I like that she sees me achieve and that I do what I like, that I am not a mother who stays at home frustrated. It is a part of teaching her to fulfill her dream. I’m tired because I get up in the morning so he can see me before going to school, because he needs it, but we have to handle the guilt; It is the healthiest because otherwise it transforms into something else and the body receives it. My mother went out to work all her life and we grew up watching her working from dawn to dusk, and she was always very present, a fighter and going to the front.
—How is your year continuing?
—I continue in mommy’s chat and I’m always on the move. Now I am launching a project that appears on Sundays on my networks, you follow mewhich is a tour of Buenos Aires, me as a tourist in my own city getting to know the spaces in a genuine way. On the other hand, I am finishing developing the one-man show based on my book, where I will talk about motherhood in an underhanded way, and some fiction floating around. I try not to do 800 thousand things because I don’t have time and I don’t like to be away from home a lot, I don’t feel like missing things that I don’t have to miss. I became a mother later, the search was significant and now I have this puppy to enjoy.
—Were you disappointed at the end of the cycle? The kitchen of El Nueve?
—These are things that happen, I fell into a moment between the production company and the channel, things happened that way, not because of me… I am very calm in that sense. But I had a hard time and the unfortunate situation to which they exposed me and my colleagues. I don’t take it personally, I know who I am and how I handle my jobs.
—And do the things that are said at those moments bother you?
—Yes, I don’t like it when there is a fuss about things that aren’t true and people who speak hurt or say things that can damage the image, but I keep knowing who I am. It is part of the moment we are living. TV is in a search, it is not the TV from 25 years ago that I knew; Maybe we don’t fit in and there are things that exceed us, we have to adapt to the most macro changes. What is not good and should not be naturalized are the sloppiness, the ways in which it is said or not said. I am a good person and I handle myself with frankness and honesty. With Monday’s newspaper, I tell you that it was good because I couldn’t have done the program and theater.
—And what happened with MasterChef?
—It was beautiful, beyond the results, the balance was positive. There was a very sad personal situation and I had to decide to take charge of the situation. In a reality show, in addition to having functionality and being very on point, I found myself at a very big crossroads. With my spirits quite low, something was happening at home that made me sad and I had to make a decision. It was lovely to meet everyone and today we have a chat.
—And with the juries? There was talk that there was a bad relationship…
—What they say on the outside is beyond me; I clarify, and if you want to believe me, fine. We all had some complex situation in a state of nervousness and demandwhich is how it is in there, I was vulnerable and sensitive and anything could affect me 10 times more than today.
