Irene Ferreiro: "I'm bad at being a bisexual icon"

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Irene Ferreiro

arrives perfect for the interview.

Flawless hairstyle, platform sandals, and long blue nails.

"They make me feel like a diva," she says before confessing that she has had to stick with Loctite.

"I'm a

" she says with a laugh.

Born in 2001, she could pass for any girl her age but, unintentionally, she has become one of the references of her generation.

All thanks to his work in

(Movistar), the fashion series among adolescents that gives voice to concerns such as toxic relationships, social pressure or harassment through the networks.

She came back to fiction after her mother threatened to delete her from acting classes if she didn't go to the casting.

It is also her mother's fault that she has written diaries since she was little when she needed to vent.

Now he publishes some of his texts in his first book,

.

Q.- Did you expect you to be so successful with Skam?

When they caught me I had a friend who had seen the original version.

He forced me to see her and I said: wow, if they do it well, it will be a bombshell.

The first season was very well received but we were hidden without social networks.

And, suddenly, the second hit the boom for the history of bisexual girls.

In addition, we opened the networks, we began to do interviews ... It was a very heavy change for people on the street to meet you, stop you and know who you are without you knowing anything about them.

I keep adapting.

For example, before, when I came here and you told me that they had been Cruz Cafuné or Bad Gyal, I was freaking out like: At what point did I get into this part of the world?

I was from the other, the one who looks from the other side of the screen.

Q.- You now have more than 320,000 followers on Instagram.

How do you handle having so many people aware of what you do?

R.-

The networks inspire me a lot.

I spend time on them, but more as a consumer than as a creator because I feel very exposed.

I do not know if because of the type of public we have, that I compare it a lot with the

OT

, but there is a small group of followers who tend to intrude a lot and because of what they have already intruded on my private life now I feel that they do not should share nothing.

I'm having a little trouble getting out of it.

Q.- Your role as Cris in Skam has made you a bisexual icon, how are you doing?

You like?

R.

I have it bad because, man, I am a kid, I am 19 years old.

My personal and ideological discourse changes every two months because I am continuously informing myself, forming myself and deconstructing myself.

So I'm not cool at all that people think of me as deified in that sense because I don't feel safe, I don't feel comfortable and I don't think I should be a reference or an icon in that sense.

If you want Cris to be, go ahead.

And I for giving representation, too.

I mean, I'm a bisexual actress, that's representation, after all, but I don't want to be anyone's icon.

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Q.- Are you very aware of the perception that others have about you?

A.-

Normally not so much of what others have on me, but yes of what I have.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I am very demanding.

There are times that my life or something in particular makes me mess up and when I tell my friends about it they tell me: Irene, you are only looking at this.

It happens to me a lot.

I am super scratched with myself but because of what I expect of myself, not because of what the rest can expect or think.

Q.- You have said that you have an anxiety disorder and that you have sometimes had seizures on the set.

How does it influence you on a daily basis?

R.-

Let's say that I have had many mental health problems since I was little and thank God they are all overcome.

But Anxiety Disorder is something that will always accompany me, to a greater or lesser extent, and I have been dealing with that in particular for a year.

I have changed a lot thanks to therapy and obviously it is something that influences me every day.

Maybe I can be at a party and have an anxiety attack.

Or I can be with my partner on the couch and suddenly I can't think and I lock up.

It is something I am learning to wear.

The worst of all is that when you've been dealing with the subject for a while and working on it, maybe things suddenly get out of control and it's devastating.

That is the hardest thing for me to assume now, that no matter how hard I work, it is something that will be with me.

Q.- You were talking about Bad Gyal before.

She said that women are required more in the world of music.

Do you feel that in the series it is also like that?

A.-

Yes, totally.

They demand certain physical canons from us so that you can do well on camera.

If the camera fattens you a couple of kilos, they discreetly release you at the casting that it would be good for you to lose a bit of weight.

Or they teach you to wear things that will look good on you and will favor you instead of what you like.

Or they pressure you to wax for a sequence.

I dont know.

And then already through networks, imagine.

To an actor what he does, and that's it.

We are expected to be models, to have the

perfect

, to be perfect both physically and everything we say.

We are always under the magnifying glass.

And, well, not only in that sense but also if you are an actress it's like: Oh, are you an actress and now?

Don't you sing

Don't you dance

Don't you do anything else?

Q.- And how do you carry that?

R.

- I don't know how to sing or dance, but I can write you a book.

To me because I like to explore many styles and I feel comfortable still looking for more vocations besides my own, which is acting.

So it doesn't bother me to be forced in some way to look for other things because I force myself.

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Q.- You have just finished your baccalaureate in arts, the series has premiered last season. Now what?

Are you going to continue training?

A.-

Yes, now I am going to enter the Juan Codina studio to continue with the interpretation.

And when I can, I don't know if it will be next year or the next, I want to study filmmaking because I would love to make my own films, it would be a dream.

Or direct video clips.

It would seem like the fucking host.

I see a lot of Ryan Murphy lately.

I love the aesthetics, the script, the LGBT representation that it has in all its series, I love it a lot.

And it reminds me a little of Woody Allen but better and less murky.

I'd be cool to do that roll.

Q.- In the institute you were 'the famous one'?

R. -

It was not going much, if I tell you the truth.

But they have ever asked me for photos and it was the worst.

In plan,

social anxiety

.

In second I had to enter as 'Irene Ferreiro, Skam's' and it was horrible, horrible.

That they asked me for photos at the exit or that my girlfriend came to look for me in class and I hid her.

It was all constant tension everywhere and to think that everyone was judging me.

Because when you have social anxiety you think that everyone is judging you, but if you also know that they are doing it, it's like: I can't take it anymore, I want to die.

Q.- But you will like something about fame.

What is the good part?

A.-

What I like the most are the stories that come to you, it's something that I have always found super curious.

Everything that is happening around us that we are not aware of.

In the end we are the protagonists of our own movie, and we all seem like extras.

When your work has helped other people in some way to grow personally and they tell you about it without knowing you.

Maybe one afternoon when I get bored I start reading DMs [direct messages] and I end up crying.

It is very heavy all the support they give you without knowing you, it seems so beautiful and so genuine.

And, obviously, on the other hand, fame itself gives you many opportunities to live experiences that otherwise I would not have lived.

As a person who is always looking for new experiences and things that do me, it is looking like the host.

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