“Someone joked to me, and asked if it was a stand-up comedy. I say it’s a sit-down comedy, because it’s me and the chairs are in the scene,” joked Pedro Paulo Rangel when talking about the play “The Actor and the Wolf,” which he returns to the stage after the premiere break two years ago. , from the epidemic. The monologue, now in Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, blends chronicles by Portuguese author Antonio Lobo Antunes with the actor’s curious life stories, leading the audience to emotion and laughter.
Good humor is a constant in the 74-year-old Carioca’s 53-year career, which recently raised the famous question “Where are you?” During the replay of “O carnation and the rose” on TV “Vale a pena ver de novo” the Globe. In the plot of Walcyr Carrasco, he played the charismatic backward Calixto.
This novel brought me many joys. They’ve shown it a few times, which is always fun. I worked with a very dear friend, Soleil Franco (Mimosa translator). Certainly, Calixto is a character that has delighted me and the audience. It is among my favorite works, along with the pieces I did with Jô Soares and the monologue “Sermão da Quarta-Feira de Cinzas”, in which I lived by Father Antonio Vieira. There was even a laugh… comedy haunts me. And this profession is very special, we work for the convenience of people – notes PP, as his friends affectionately call him.
The veteran asserts: Contrary to what has been peddled online lately, the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) he’s lived with for two decades has never stopped him working.
– It only stopped during the epidemic, like most people. I returned to television this year to participate in Luis Fernando Carvalho’s series “Independências” on TV Cultura (played in English as a librarian in episode five). I’m fine, ready. I’ve never been disabled, ever. You can send me invitations, which I will accept, whatever the case – he warns, determined only to avoid soap operas: – There was a time when I did theater and opera at the same time. She made it to the stage of performing in Portugal and back to shoot scenes in Rio. I don’t want anymore. I prefer small business, because telenovelas are ten months of battle. And I’m not a boy anymore, right?
PP, a resident of Copacabana, usually travels around the neighborhood on a motorbike, losing his breath while hiking. COPD came to the fore after years of cigarette addiction.
I stopped smoking in 1988, the last century. I adopted a healthy life, learned to swim, walked on the beach…and in 2002 I found out I was sick. I didn’t feel sick, I found out. It’s treachery. When she appears, she no longer has a chance. But I can live well as long as I take medicine. I do physical therapy, physical activities with a figure … – says the actor, adding: – If there is something I deeply regret, it is he started smoking. If I see a smoker, I say: “Don’t do that, look at my condition.” Then I tell you some sad things to impress you. Nowadays, I’m just addicted to soap operas, I love it!
Living alone in his apartment, he employed a system for possible emergencies:
– If you feel something, press a button and help will arrive soon. Solitude is beautiful to live, loneliness is difficult sometimes. But I have a lot of friends, and I’m always with them. Despite it being a monologue, there are so many people involved in “The Actor and the Wolf,” I never feel lonely.
A passion for theater is also evident on the skin. Masks that are a symbol of art became his first tattoo, already when he was in his seventies:
– After I got older, I started tattooing myself (Laughter). On my right arm, I have the masks, the crab which represents my sign (Cancer) and Van Gogh’s moon, which is my ruling planet. Now, I don’t stop anymore. I’m already studying space here for the fourth drawing, for Oryxa, Oksalova. I want to close it as a bracelet.
Paolo Vieira, Salgadinho and Yuri Marsal support Eddie Jr in front of the comedian’s building
If the nickname PP refers to small, then this giant of drama, 1.60 meters tall, ensures that short stature has never been an obstacle in the artistic path.
– On TV, in “Saramandaia” (1976) “I committed” a heart (Dirceu), check it out! And theater has always been very generous. It accepts whites, blacks, yellows, and aborigines, up and down, fat and skinny. My short height has done me little to no harm in my life, because I can’t reach the top shelf and always have to use a chair. That’s just. Otherwise, everything is great!
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“The Actor and the Wolf”
Laura Elfem Theatre: Av. Vieira Soto 176, Ipanema – 2332-2016. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm; Sunday at 7 pm. 50 Brazilian riyals. 60 minutes. Until November 13 (October 30 there will be no presentation). 14 years.
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