Presenter of “The Anthill” shares near-death experience involving weapons and actor Ricardo Darin talks Oscars at Hormiguero

The presenter of the Anthill, Paul Motorcycles, has confessed on his program an anecdote that almost ended his life. During his interview with the actor Ricardo Darin, protagonist of success Argentina, 1985the ants Trancas and Ravines They made one of the games we are used to on the show. In this one where they had to tell a story and the other had to guess if the story is real or not. So, the ants asked Pablo if he had ever handled a weapon.

To the question, Paul replied; “I shot myself in the head, I didn’t hit myself, that’s why I’m here. It was in the military and I dedicated myself to storing weapons, taking care of them and cleaning them” he continued with the story; “I had a meeting with a girl and, when I was already picking up, a lot of commanders appeared with their pistols after some shooting practice”. The presenter did not want to be left without his appointment, he did his job badly: “I decided not to clean any, I just rubbed some oil on the outside thinking there were no bullets. But I found a gun that had a bullet in the chamber“, he recalled. “When riding it, it shot, it grazed my eyebrow, I was deaf in one ear, speechless. They took me to the hospital, where I stayed for five or six hours to see if I would recover”he continued. “The next day they took me to the barracks and arrested me for doing my job badly”,concluded.

Ricardo Darín and his bad experience at the Oscars

The Argentine actor went to the Hormiguero to talk about his latest work, Argentina, 1985, a film that has been awarded numerous awards, including The Goya, the Golden Globe, the San Sebastián and Venice public award, an Oscar nomination, and a few days ago, the Platinum for best international award in Madrid.

Throughout the interview he talked about various topics and anecdotes but there was one that drew special attention, the actor did not excessively enjoy the gala of the Oscar in the year 2002, as the protagonist of The son of the bride. On that occasion he had a bad experience and, in fact, from that moment he did not want to return.

For this reason, throughout these years he has had the opportunity up to four times to go to the most important gala in the world of cinema, however, it has not been until this edition when he has decided that he had no other option but to attend. to the Oscars. The reason why she did not enjoy her first time was the following; “The context was very different, the attack on the Twin Towers had happened very recently and everyone was very paranoid in the United States. It was not the best of situations and that meant that I did not have such a good time”.