Luis Brandoni: the great love of his life and the courtship of his last years that broke generational barriers
Luis Brandoni He spoke little or no about his intimacy and a lot much less about his loves, however on occasion he dared and offered particulars of his sentimental standing.
His last years had been spent as a pair with Saula Benaventeproducer, screenwriter and audiovisual director and daughter of the painter Saulo Benavente. During the pandemic, the actor stated: “I spent the quarantine at home, with some visits to my girlfriend, who lives at her house.” And then he clarified: “I have a girlfriend, yes. We don’t live together because she has her son and each of us has our own things, but we are couples. It’s very nice, especially because we avoid the wear and tear of living together. Then the love and affection remains, we miss each other, we talk on the phone several times a day. I know what her life is like and she what mine is like. We are very happy.”
Brandoni and his girlfriend had been collectively for the last 13 years and from the starting the relationship was deliberate as a courtship with out cohabitation. He lived in Retiro and she in Palermo and the dynamic they’d was to go to one another as soon as every week and extra on the weekends. “We are dating, each in his own house. I am very happy with Saula. I live in an apartment and she in a house with her son and she has dogs and eight turtles that cannot be heard, except when they copulate. I confess that I have no debts in love,” he stated on a radio program a couple of years in the past.
Luis and Saula met via mutual associates and the age distinction was not an obstacle: he was 40 years older than her. However, for neither of them that was an issue and they loved the relationship with out listening to opinions or censoring their emotions. She stood firmly by his aspect in his remaining days, when the finish of an extended and passionate life was close to.
For 38 years, Brandoni was in a relationship with the actress Marta Bianchi. In a program by Alejandro Fantino, the actor stated: “I got married very young, at 23 years old, and my daughter was born when I was still 23 years old. I was married to Marta for 33 years, plus five as a boyfriend and that’s a total of 38 years of my life. It was a great love and the consequence is my daughters, Florencia and Micaela; my grandchildren, Olivia, Catalina, Macarena and Tomás, and they make me feel that I have been through this life. I am of the idea that you can continue loving a person you are no longer with, loving from another place, it has nothing to do with sexuality.” And when Fantino asked him if he loves only once in his life or several times, the actor responded: “I can’t give a very precise formulation about that.”
In those shared years, Brandoni and Bianchi lived happy times and also very difficult ones because they had to go into exile in Mexico in 1974 due to threats from Triple A. However, they returned ten months later and decided to do theater: the play was called Second half and he starred in it alongside Marta Bianchi and Chela Ruiz, but one night they waited for the couple outside the theater, they were detained and they were held captive for a couple of days. They were freed thanks to the intervention of a friend, although they decided to stay in the country anyway.
Brandoni and Bianchi labored collectively on many fictions and successes like the movie are nonetheless remembered immediately Made in Argentina and the play Made in Lanús. On a couple of event they stated that they loved working collectively and that they maintained a great relationship as dad and mom, now separated. With their daughters and grandchildren they shared each birthdays and end-of-year events.
At the beginning of 2000, Luis Brandoni met Monica Lopez28 years younger than him. They also did not notice the age difference and fell in love. The first meeting was during a season in Mar del Plata, where he was starring in a play and she accompanied his friends. Carlos Rottemberg and Linda Peretzmatchmakers of the couple. They married in 2007, after seven years of dating. There was a ceremony at the Civil Registry on Uruguay Street, in the city of Buenos Aires, and a great party at the San Juan Tenis Club with many guests, including Guillermo Francella, Emilio Disi, Hugo Arana, Pepe Eliaschev, Jorge Luz, Walter Santana, Daniel Miglioranza, Raúl Alfonsín, Osvaldo Miranda, Daniel Rabinovich and Rottemberg, who was one of the witnesses of the wedding.
Mónica was a producer at that time and in addition to love, they were united by business, because they were partners in a company dedicated to organizing, producing, coordinating, performing, staging, directly or indirectly exploiting works in the theatrical, radio, television and cinematographic fields. The relationship lasted 9 years in total. They divorced in 2010.
Brandoni had more loves, some whitewashed and some not. In 2011, for example, he went to the premiere of the unitary The man of your life along with a beautiful woman named Paula, younger than him and a psychologist by profession, but they did not appear together again. I would be Saula Benavente his last great love, with whom he would decide to live in “courtship mode” until his last days.