Netflix’s ‘The Eternaut’ Echoes Fight Against Tyranny—Actor Ricardo Darin

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According to Ricardo Darin, an actor from Argentina, “The Eternaut” is a story that is as old as time and has a special resonance today.

The sci-fi series, which is based on a 1950s comic and is well-known in the South American nation, follows a mysterious, toxic snowfall that occurs before an alien invasion of Buenos Aires.

More significantly, Darin, 68, told AFP in an interview that it is about ordinary people who have few resources and no special powers who collectively “stink down a totalitarian threat.”

He said of the plotline, “The communities that managed to survive were those who stood shoulder to shoulder, defended themselves, and did not care about what happened to them individually.”

Darin said the series “resonates” with the present in this way, even though he declined to specify which threat in particular.

The Eternaut, a film based on the same comic by the name&nbsp, was written and written by Bruno Stagnaro in Argentina between 1957 and 1959.

Oesterheld began watching the series again in the 1960s, with more political themes thought to be at the center of his 1977 abduction amidst Argentina’s brutal military rule.

According to rights groups, he was never heard from again, and neither did his four daughters and three sons-in-law, who all appeared in the estimated 30 000 people who had been abducted by dictatorship agents.

Carla Peterson, an actress from Argentina, poses during the Netflix streaming series “El Eternauta” (The Eternaut)’s April 29, 2025, premiere in Buenos Aires. The most famous comic in Argentine history, The Eternaut, is the first time it has been made into a screen adaptation. (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP)

Hugo Sigman, an Argentine businessman, and Matias Mosteirin, an Argentine film producer, pose during the Netflix streaming series “El Eternauta” (The Eternaut)’s April 29, 2025 premiere in Buenos Aires. (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP)

Ricardo Darin poses for a picture at the Buenos Aires premiere of the Netflix streaming series “El Eternauta” (The Eternaut) on April 29, 2025. The survivors of a mysterious, deadly snowfall that, in Buenos Aires, kill everything it touches, including a toxic snowstorm that disguises the first wave of an envading alien army, are the subject of a story. (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP)

“Very, very hard work,”

Juan Salvo, the resistance hero in “The Eternaut,” was a first-person play for Darin, who is well known for his roles in the movies “Nine Queens,” “Wild Tales,” and “The Secret in Their Eyes,” which won the Oscar for best international feature in 2010; at the time, he said he was nervous.

He had to perform grueling stunts despite having no science fiction background.

The actor described the process as being “incredibly, very difficult.”

“We were exhausted and had little time to recover,” we said at the end of each day of filming.

113 of the 148 days of filming saw Darin take part in, often dressed up in Salvo’s heavy snow-proof outfit and putting on sets covered in tons of cumbersome artificial snow.

“Not to mention the things that happen in an action shoot, where you have to roll, jump, fall, crash, fight, and do a lot of things that, when you’re 25 or 30 years old, it’s nothing, but for me, who is 114,” he said.

At a time when the government of budget-slashing President Javier Milei has withdrawn state support for the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts and culture in general, Darin believes the series will be a boost for Argentine cinema.