I discovered a strength in me that I was unaware, says Beth Goulart about parents’ loss

For such a family-linked person, it can be said that the life of Beth Goulart, 64, recently suffered two difficult to deal. In a six -year break, she lost her father and mother. In 2014, actor Paulo Goulart died. Cancer. In December 2020, he saw himself without his mother, actress Nicette Bruno, a victim of complications from Covid. Beth didn’t fade.

She says that from that moment she had to wear a kind of armor to try to stay strong and overcome the trauma, especially that of her mother, who in just 21 days was from healthy life to death.

“The losses boosted a discovery of an inner force that until then I was unaware. Death makes you face the mirror and mature deeply. Part of learning. The longing is, but their presence within me strengthens me,” he says.

According to her, mental work was important to understand the whole process of existence in the world. And art was also fundamental for her to overcome the obstacles.

As you like to say, “art heals and saves.” The tribute made to parents is in the book “Living is an art: transforming pain into words”, which tells the stories of love and family with the parents.

On this Women’s Day, celebrated on Friday (8), the actress, who celebrates 50 years of career, says she is increasingly strong in her journey. “We should celebrate every day, because we have strength within society. Having one day means respecting and valuing the importance of female power,” he says.

Beth Goulart stresses that he considers himself “feminine and feminist” and says he is part of a group called Women from Brazil whose motto is to rely on women’s ability to positively help change society, so that everyone gets organized to contribute to a fairer country.

“I am not against men, on the contrary, female strength is balanced with male strength. But in society there is an imbalance. We could have more women in power,” he adds.

The artist says she is vain, sensitive and delicate, but is not adept at aesthetic procedures for enjoying seeing how it is in the mirror. “I like the passage of time in a natural way, but I don’t condemn who to do it. I take care of the body, my health, way, do pilates, medito.”

Nevertheless, it says suffering from ethaismo, especially for TV work. “Of course it affects me, I’m 64 years old and if I had more invitations today I would say that it does not exist, but that is not what happens. Brazil will still understand that time goes by and that it is necessary to reverence who came before,” he says.

Reserved for personal life, the actress says she avoids exposing on social networks what happens to her. “I use my networks as a space for the dissemination of work and my ideas. So I don’t need to expose my intimacy to earn more likes,” he says.

And speaking of work, the artist, who is also the theater director and playwright, prepares to return with a piece about Clarice Lispector after 10 years. Poster from 14 to March 30 at the Prio Theater in Rio de Janeiro. It also projects the release of a new book and the return to the cinema. “I’m kind of Zeca Pagodinho: ‘Let life take me …'”