Nicolás Larraín y Felipe Izquierdo recordaron al gran Mago Larraín, reconociendo su tremendo legado.
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00:00He was really into it.
00:01Mine and his.
00:02Tell me, why?
00:03Mine, obviously, because I was into it.
00:05Yes, but why his?
00:06Because I came from a world more to the south.
00:11And suddenly, when I came to Santiago,
00:14when I had to live here for two years,
00:16I went to the house of La Reina,
00:18and it was a permanent coffee shop.
00:20The magician La Reina.
00:21I mean, already, at that time,
00:24I think that today, being an actor is still a problem.
00:26Imagine being a magician at that time.
00:28I don't know what his family told him,
00:30but someone who wants to be a magician has to be very brave,
00:33and also very convinced of what he was as an artist, of course.
00:36So, when I entered this house,
00:38the uncle was a guy who did magic to you,
00:41who had very strange friends,
00:43who were all...
00:44It was a totally spectacular and real world.
00:48So, with Fernando and Nicolás, who I saw,
00:52and Pablo too, because Pablo is very funny,
00:54we all played the piano,
00:57and a lot of music, a lot of entertainment.
00:59So, for the first time, I dared to think
01:02that one could live from something entertaining in life.
01:06Because the magician La Reina existed.
01:07I said, but if the magician La Reina can survive,
01:10why couldn't one do it?
01:11I didn't know if he had talent or not,
01:13but I had a good time with Nicolás and Fernando.
01:15I mean, I'm sure that if I hadn't met Nicolás and Fernando,
01:18and more the magician La Reina,
01:20I would never have dedicated myself to being an actor,
01:23or anything that looks like something artistic.
01:25Wow, that's powerful.
01:26I owe it to them and to the magician.
01:29Nice.
01:30And in your case,
01:31how was it to have a father like your father,
01:34like the magician,
01:35but not only as an artist,
01:37but obviously as a father, as a representative?
01:39No, of course, as Felipe says,
01:40we grew up in this house,
01:41so for us it was more normal.
01:43But looking back, of course,
01:45having a magician father was a unique thing.
01:48I mean, in my whole school there was no magician father.
01:50My father was a civil engineer,
01:52but he was the magician La Reina.
01:55So my father did magic, he did tricks,
01:58but also, if you look back,
02:00he lived talking about magic,
02:02like magic really exists.
02:04So it's very stimulating.
02:06My father was crazy, he talked about other things,
02:09as Felipe says, he was a friend.
02:11Jaime Celedón was at my house.
02:13I remember my childhood and everything was a joke.
02:16Everything was a joke.
02:17There were no serious moments.
02:19But a very intelligent joke.
02:20Of course.
02:21For example, I remember that in the group they had,
02:24which was Germán Riesco, my father,
02:27they would get together to eat,
02:29and at the end of the meal, out of nowhere,
02:31no one was paying an artist,
02:33the magician La Reina would stand up
02:34and do a type of mail and telegraph.
02:37Like the telegraph mail union,
02:39he would put on a mustache,
02:40which he was wearing,
02:41and he would stand up and give a speech
02:44for the telegraph mail union,
02:46at the table, and the whole restaurant
02:48would start talking.
02:49It was a genius,
02:51which comes from a generation like Andrés Rillón,
02:54Jaime Celedón,
02:55who lived the humor daily.
02:57They didn't need a stage.
02:58I have a presentation of your father from 1979.
03:01No.
03:02Yes?
03:03And maybe you've never seen it.
03:05It's going to make me cry, no.
03:06I think it's very beautiful.
03:07It wouldn't hurt, of course.
03:08In the Casino de Las Vegas theater.
03:09Look, look.
03:13Music, please.
03:19Here.
03:25Look, Helmut with black hair.
03:31This was a long time ago, Helmut.
03:36Look, he doesn't have...
03:46And where did they get this?
03:48Exactly.
03:53Extraordinary, right?
04:09Extraordinary.
04:101979.
04:11Look, you don't have to ignore
04:13that the magician Larraín,
04:15because he was a magician,
04:17but he won world titles,
04:19best magician in the world,
04:21second title in Europe.
04:23In Argentina he was recognized in the world.
04:25Tamarillo came here,
04:26I remember seeing him in your house.
04:28And he told me,
04:29man, we're going to do a magic.
04:31So I thought,
04:32for a child,
04:33a 12, 13-year-old kid,
04:34that I had,
04:35to see this show.
04:37Obviously,
04:38one becomes familiar with all this
04:40and assimilates it
04:41as if it were natural.
04:43So the sense of humor
04:45and the artistic world,
04:47I was assimilating it in a natural way.
04:49I didn't see myself in a stage like this,
04:51but the stage was already in his house.
04:53And in my house too,
04:54because my dad,
04:55because it was a group,
04:56my dad was also very funny,
04:58but he wasn't an artist.
05:00He danced all day,
05:01he worked at the Central Bank,
05:02so Felipe had that...
05:03That duality.
05:04No, no, it wasn't duality,
05:05it was life at the Central Bank.
05:07So he comes here and says,
05:08you can live off the chacota,
05:09or the uncle who knows how to dance.
05:10No, but it was chacota.
05:11It was a recognition to my dad,
05:12on TV.
05:15Nowadays there is a lot of magic,
05:16a lot of wizards in the world.
05:17The internet has helped
05:18to have thousands of wizards.
05:20And wizards have come to Chile,
05:22in a restaurant,
05:23and I have met
05:2520 or 30-year-old guys
05:27who have touched me,
05:28who are doing magic.
05:29And then I tell them,
05:31no, I am the son of the Mago Larraín.
05:33For young wizards,
05:3520 or 30 years old,
05:36the gentleman is a legend.
05:38He is a legend.
05:39He is a legend.
05:40I say, I am the son of the Mago Larraín.
05:41They can't believe it.
05:42He says, well,
05:43for Latin America
05:44it is very well known.
05:45My dad is much more than on TV.
05:47The Mago Larraín Circuit
05:49was like a legend of magic.
05:51And I am going to tell you a story
05:54that I am not going to tell.
05:56This is a clear moment.
05:57I want to be clear here.
05:59Because this story
06:01is told by a friend of the family.
06:04And when I found out,
06:05I couldn't believe it.
06:06I don't know if it was true or not.
06:07Let's listen to this friend,
06:10Zenet.
06:12Among so many anecdotes
06:13that he told,
06:14he says that once,
06:15when he was young,
06:16he traveled to England.
06:17He went to the English Magic Circle.
06:20And among so many wizards
06:22that he admired,
06:23he was able to show his passes,
06:25his little things that he did.
06:26And he, Felipo,
06:27says, I am a Chilean
06:28and showing him.
06:29And he paid attention to me.
06:31And he liked it.
06:32To the point that one
06:33later invited me to a bar,
06:35to have a drink
06:37and to continue talking about magic,
06:39which is what wizards do.
06:42And they went to a bar
06:44where there was a lot of noise,
06:45a lot of noise.
06:46And we could hardly talk.
06:47It was full of people.
06:49And there was in a corner
06:50a little group that was playing
06:53metal, drums, guitar.
06:55And we couldn't talk.
06:56We wanted to show our passes
06:58with cards, with coins.
07:00And we couldn't.
07:01And then he said,
07:02let's go somewhere else.
07:04That there is a lot of noise here.
07:06These things that are playing here.
07:08From Beatles.
07:10Stop a little.
07:11It can't be heard.
07:12Let's go somewhere else.
07:15Anecdote that the magician had.
07:18Of course, of course.
07:19My dad always told me
07:21that he made the Beatles shut up,
07:22that he was with Raquel Welch and everything.
07:24And we, I would tell you
07:25that all our youth,
07:27we looked at him like The Big Fish.
07:29This man is crazy.
07:31And notice that with the years,
07:32he passed away in 2011,
07:34all the stories he told us
07:37began to appear
07:38by other friends.
07:39He has witnesses who understand me.
07:41The Beatles thing is incredible.
07:42He made the Beatles shut up.
07:44Raquel Welch, Raúl Mata,
07:46introduced her in Spain.
07:48Say hello to Raquel Welch.
07:49A lot of incredible stories.
07:51My dad, just like The Big Fish movie.
07:54And I would tell you
07:56that even when he died,
07:58we didn't believe him.
08:00I don't want to say that at the funeral
08:02the whole story appeared.
08:04But with the years,
08:05we have been believing him more and more.
08:07He was a living myth,
08:09he was a character.
08:10He had another grace,
08:11which was very simple.
08:14Because in general,
08:15a person who had those conditions,
08:17would have been much worse.
08:18But he was very polite
08:19and people remember him
08:20because he was very condescending
08:22with people.
08:23He was very affectionate,
08:24very simple, very humble.
08:26Which is something that,
08:27for example, Fernando has.
08:28Fernando is like that.
08:29Fernando is very, very...
08:30Plain.
08:31Plain.
08:32It's not your case,
08:33but it's the case.
08:34No, no, no.
08:37I'm going to remember moments...