“My father returned from Ultramar for me to be born and there were times when he thought about using a gun again. There was a lot of political instability”
Born in 1976, in Lisbon. He grew up in Restelo and studied at a Nuns’ College. He lived a childhood “protected from everything”, with a “deeply sexist” education. “There was a difference between me and my younger brother. A woman ‘doesn’t behave in such a way, she can’t leave’”, he recalls.
She fell in love with her father’s cinema representation in Lisbon, but her parents never found it very funny – “they were worried about their daughter’s future and being an actress was nothing”, she remembers. They prevented her from entering the conservatory and so she went to study Psychology.
Nuno Fox
Nuno Fox
Matilde Fieschi
But at the age of 26 – still living at home with his parents – he spent days in a brothel to prepare for a role in a João Canijo film. “I didn’t know anything about life. They taught me all the tricks to avoid drinking, but I couldn’t do it. I was drinking champagne like there was no tomorrow,” he says.
He couldn’t last more than three days, he left after a conversation with a client, a businessman, who offered him a check with money. “He told me it was money to rebuild my life. I reminded him of his daughter”, he recalls.
Nuno Fox
“I’ve always played dramatic women’s roles,” she admits. Her commitment and dedication to her characters makes her one of the most sought-after actresses in Portuguese cinema. He already gained 25kg for a film and lived for months in Bairro Padre Cruz, in a house where neighbors threw their feces over the backyard wall.
Anabela Moreira is Bernardo Ferrão’s guest on the special episode of Geração 70, recorded at the Tribeca Festival Lisboa.
Paulo Alves
Geração 70 is not a podcast about politics or economics, nor about arts or science. It’s a loose conversation with today’s protagonists who were born in the 70s. The generation that is in charge of the country or on the way. Here we talk about expectations and frustrations. Of dreams come true and those that were lost. A first-person portrait of the indelible passage of time, a journey from the 70s to the present day led by Bernardo Ferrão
