We have to normalize talking about sex, says Priscila Fantin

About to turn 41 (next Sunday, the 18th), actress Priscila Fantin says that she is experiencing one of her best phases, both professionally and personally. Married to actor Bruno Lopes, she faces the challenge of directing and acting in a play whose theme is love.

According to her, being on the same stage helps to strengthen the bonds of affection and trust between the two. Her sex life is great too — and this is a subject she likes to talk about and finds important to debate, whether with her fans, on social media, or with journalists. “We have to normalize talking about sex, even to better educate those who need to understand some of the risks. And the benefits too,” she says.

In an interview with F5, the actress, with future projects that include series and film, talks about her 25 years on TV, the phase in which she discovered she had depression and persecution, and also about realizing a “girl’s dream”: working in another country . Read below:

You are celebrating 25 years on TV. How was your debut in Malhação, in 1999?

I lived in another city and wanted to be a nutritionist. Overnight, at 16 years old and with a reserved behavior, I was dedicating myself to an unimaginable profession, supporting my family and being recognized on the street. Professionally speaking, it was my school.

You and your husband are together in the play ‘We Need to Talk About Love Without Saying I Love You’. How about the experience?

The show has existed since 2018, so we are already well-oiled in professional coexistence. Healthy discussions are part of a constructive process, after all, everyone has to bring their perspective to the whole, do you agree?

Does the theme of the play also help your relationship?

The play talks about different love languages ​​and I think this is the biggest difficulty in relationships, not just marital ones. Understanding that everyone has their own way of expressing love and also how to feel loved.

Like this? Romanticizing suffering in the name of love is a disservice. Believing that we are incomplete and need to find our half is a mistake. Love is healthy, positive, it drives, applauds and cheers for the flight of those you love.

You and Bruno Lopes talk openly about sex. Are there no taboos?

We try to break down some taboos because we see that many couples fall into betrayal because they don’t know each other and don’t allow each other, sexually speaking. We have to normalize talking about sex, even to better educate those who need to understand the risks it can bring. And the benefits too.

Can you talk more about this? We grow up learning that sex is dirty, it’s vulgar and that’s not the fault of sex itself, but of how people excuse themselves from it. We hope that couples find pleasure in each other and don’t fall into the trap of accepting that any adventure outside of marriage can serve to relieve and live better at home. Believe it or not, the majority are like this, unfortunately.

Tell us a little about your post-play plans.

I will premiere the feature film ‘Partiu América’, with Matheus Ceará, and enter the second season of the series ‘Luz’. The second part of the show is already being ready and we will relaunch the podcast as soon as the studio we are building is ready. We also intend to get our audiovisual projects off the ground: the film and series of ‘We Need to Talk about Love Without Saying I Love You’.

Were you really scouted to join BBB 24?

There was no survey. I really don’t know how journalists can, quote, create stories and make people believe them. When I studied journalism, this was prohibited (laughs), after all, you shouldn’t deceive readers. In fact, with the advancement and speed of social networks, people are increasingly lazy to read a complete article, sticking only to sensationalist headlines.

Have you been the victim of one of these headlines, no? Yes, in the case of the ‘waitress in Paris’. They made people think that I gave up my career to be a waitress or that I did this to try to cure depression or that I’m doing this exactly at this moment in my life. They release a sentence without context and without caring about people’s understanding of what is being said. It is a lack of responsibility and professional ethics.

Can you tell us what really happened in this Paris story?

Working as a waitress had been my desire since I was a teenager. I wanted to study, go on exchange and support myself wherever I went. Financial independence/freedom was a desire that blossomed in me early. I took advantage of an off-season from soap operas and made this girl’s dream come true. The work itself has nothing to do with the emotional and questioning period in which it was inserted. But having gone to another country, yes. The convergence of facts is that I had won this ticket [para Paris] it had been almost a year and soon it would expire.

Were you working at the time?

I was on the show and I started to get chased. So I took the opportunity to check if what I was experiencing had any concrete basis or if it was part of some illness. Finally, I concluded that there was no concrete basis. As soon as I returned from my trip, I consulted myself and was diagnosed with depression. Only then did I start to take care of myself and understand what I had.

What was that moment like with depression?

I didn’t really know what it was, I just knew that I didn’t feel anything and that was what left me distressed, not knowing what to think or how to act. There was no path that indicated how to take care of myself, how to feel emotions or experience things again. Since it’s been almost 15 years, I understand how to deal with it and what I need to not let the illness take over again.

Whats the way?

The path is deep self-knowledge. The one where you see your flaws and accept them, the one you don’t want to experience because it hurts, the one that makes you want to escape reality when you go out for a ride. The one that bothers you and that you do everything you can to avoid facing. Only by going through this will you know yourself enough to not let yourself deviate from what you need.