Claudia Ohana: ‘I speak five languages, sing, dance, but people remember my Playboy’

Since the 1980s, intimate waxing by actress Claudia Ohana, 60, has been the subject of comments and jokes. But anyone who thinks that this topic leaves her hurt is wrong. On the contrary. Today, the carioca says that she considers herself “the great representative of ppks and freedom”.

For this reason, he inspired and closed a contract with a shaver brand for a campaign on depilation and intimate care. “I face everything with grace, I even say that my pubic hair has grown over the years, because in some photos it even looks like they used Photoshop”, jokes the artist in conversation with the F5.

At the age of 60, the actress says that she feels more and more beautiful and that she is not afraid of aging. Although she is not against cosmetic procedures, she says she still doesn’t feel like (or courage) to undergo surgeries. “I take care of myself a lot, I sleep well, I eat well. I’m nativist, vain, I love feeling beautiful.”

This vanity contrasts with Claudia’s recent characters. Currently, she plays a devil in the play “Dom Quixote de Lugar Não”, in theaters in Rio, and the holistic therapist Dora, without any makeup, in the soap opera “Vai na Fé”. In Globo’s 7pm plot, her character faces a terminal illness and opts for palliative treatment, gradually saying goodbye to life. An unusual situation for the actress, who fears getting sick in her daily life. Check out the full interview below.

How do you evaluate the character Dora so far in ‘Vai na Fé’? She had her first phase, a phase of discovering the holistic world. I even started doing yoga, using essential oils — and this I brought into my life. In the beginning, Dora was a playful, happy character, but now she has her part getting sick and accepting death.

How will she face this moment? She gives us a lesson on how to face this thing that we usually don’t face, which is the end of life. It will be tackled beautifully. I’ve learned a lot from her, even though this is the first time I’ve played a character who gets sick. It’s still hard to find the right tone to not weigh so much, but it’s a drama.

Dora will undergo palliative treatment for terminal cancer. How did you prepare? Sometimes, movie images pop into my head, and at other times, I remember the many medical series I usually watch. It’s something new for me, as I’ve never experienced a case of someone sick in the family. In Dora’s case, she gets worse, getting short of breath and is sad, but at the same time, she has a look of happiness and gratitude for life. The interpretation I do in the most delicate and subtle way.

Will she ever use medical marijuana in the treatment? This is talked about, but she doesn’t use it. What you will use will be a lot of morphine against the pain. Cannabis is mostly used, as far as I know, for those undergoing chemotherapy. So, as morphine is heavy, there is a drowsiness stage that will show.

Are you in favor of using cannabis for medicinal purposes? In the United States, people use it for various purposes, whether to calm down, for nausea and other things. I am for it, I think it is a plant and it can be used for this purpose.

You have nosophobia (fear of getting sick). How do you deal with this diagnosis? I didn’t even know the name, but I have. In fact, not only do I have a disease phobia, but I also get someone else’s disease. If you say you have pain in your arm, I end up feeling the person’s pain.

Has this bothered you a lot? Nowadays it’s better, but in the past I would even end up in the hospital. I discovered nosophobia a long time ago. Everyone called me a hypochondriac, but I’m not, I don’t like medication, I’m afraid of getting sick.

Because of this, how do you manage to separate the character Dora, who is terminally ill, from Claudia? Leaving the recordings, I usually say that I’m not Dora, and I take her away from me when I leave the studio. I’m literally saying: ‘Now I’m Claudia’. There are times that when I’m interpreting I get a little doped up, I get soft, tired, with her energy that comes to me. I go into a state of weakness and then I have to get out of it.

At the beginning of the year, her daughter Dandara was hospitalized. Did that harrowing moment in any way help you play Dora? No, it’s very different when it happens to you and when something happens to your daughter. The pain and concern for the child are very desperate. [Para as cenas,] I had more memories of when I had to operate for diverticulitis and I had a piece of intestine removed. It was the only operation I’ve had in my life.

How is your vanity at age 60? It’s funny, because I’m currently playing two characters devoid of vanity: Dora, without makeup, with dark circles under her eyes and loose hair, and the devil in a play. Getting old doesn’t worry or distress me. This thing of having to undergo plastic surgery does not consume me. It’s accepting aging. There are days when I think I’m beautiful and others not so much, but I don’t get attached to the past, the young beauty of my 20s.

Are you against aesthetic procedures? In principle, I’m not against any procedure, but I don’t feel distressed to the point of going through one. I take care of myself like hell, I sleep well, I eat well, I really take care of myself. I’m nativist, vain, I love feeling beautiful, I exercise, I practice some skills in the morning like playing the guitar. I wake up every day and have a huge ritual with meditation, reading and positive words. I like to be well in body, mind and spirit.

Do you consider yourself better physically than when you posed nude in 1984? Today, physically, it’s impossible to be better than when you were 20, but I consider myself better in the sense that, when I was younger, I wasn’t aware of what I was, of the value I had. She was very insecure, very fearful. Today I feel wonderful.

Now she has been advertising intimate waxing, a subject that has haunted her since she posed nude. I’ve always taken it lightly, as a joke, I even say that my pubic hair has grown over the years, because in some photos it looks like they’ve been Photoshopped, because there was a lot of hair. But I was always surprised that Gillette had never asked me to do something. I am the great representative of these ppks, of freedom and everything, I have this image. That’s what I say: I speak five languages, I sing, I dance, but what people remember is my Playboy.

Does that bother you? No, I think it’s funny and nowadays there is no taboo. It doesn’t piss me off and I’ve never been hurt by it.

I even got to earn some money with it… Did you see? It’s part of my story.