Actor Ricardo Pereira, 43, has already given life to several villains on the small screen, but has stood out as businessman Danilo, in the soap opera “Cara e Coragem” (Globo). In the plot, he is a dissimulated and engaging man who deceives everyone with his nice face, a husband in love with Rebeca (Mariana Santos) and who melts for his stepson, but is capable of anything to achieve his goals.
Pereira says he is enjoying playing a character full of layers and different from the typical villain who reveals himself more often and easily. On the streets, the actor is often stopped by fans who ask to take pictures and often say: “You’re not going to hurt me, right? You’re Danilo, the bad guy”, he says laughing.
Another characteristic of the villain that won over the actor is his “psychopathic side”, which is capable of killing with plastic gloves and keeping his suit in order. “I think these are, without a doubt, the worst villains. At the same time they kill in a living room, they arrive in the room clean, perfumed and caressing someone”, says the actor who considers his character worthy of a 9pm soap opera.
The actor says that to incorporate the villain of “Cara e Coragem” and the characters of so many other works – even without the Portuguese accent – ​​he usually closes himself in one of the studio’s rooms to warm up vocally, physically and listen to good music. “I always make a playlist and put on a different perfume for each character [que faço]”, reveals the actor.
Outside the recording studios, Pereira shares with his wife Francisca the education of their three children, who were born in Brazil, a country where he arrived almost 20 years ago to do a job, ended up staying, and claims to have met. “I have a lot of Brazil inside me besides my family,” he says. “[Minha esposa] is Portuguese, but has been here with me for so long and loves Brazil as much as I do”, he adds.
He says that one of the reasons that led him to stay in Brazil – besides his work as an actor and the beaches he likes to surf – was the relaxed way of Brazilians and the informality. “I’d like to walk a little loose, go out in the morning, find a group and go somewhere else,” he says. “I felt very identified with Rio and Brazil. Ah, with this way of being here, I felt more like a [brasileiro].”
Pereira says that he sometimes goes to Portugal to do some quick work and finds Brazilians in restaurants who say he is no longer Portuguese because he no longer has an accent. When that happens, he always hears a fellow countryman protesting: “This guy is ours. So, that’s funny, because I’m 43 years old and 20 of them were spent here [no Brasil]”, says the actor, who intends to obtain Brazilian citizenship in the future.
About politics, Pereira says he doesn’t like to talk about the subject publicly, but to listen to friends and experts in meetings talking about the subject as long as it involves learning and respecting different points of view. But the radical political polarization that everyone is witnessing in Brazil, where people are going to fight, he doesn’t think it’s right.
“There’s an expression that is ‘8 or 80’ and in between there are several things. Democracy is respecting all people who want a certain thing and others don’t”, he says. “They must be informed about each person they are going to vote for, their projects. Information is super important”, she emphasizes.
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