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Porn sells morbidity for what is seen in front of the cameras, but what is behind (or we suppose) does not lag behind either. Of that 'backstage' we suspect everything, but we do not know anything and the series 'Nacho' has come to draw the curtain.

The fiction, by Atresmedia, breaks down the back room of this industry in the 90s and tells the story through the figure of Nacho Vidal, played in fiction by Martiño Rivas. However, Miriam Giovanelli (Rome, 1989) clarifies: "You can't tell the porn of that time without talking about it, but it's not a story about her life."

She, also known for her work in series such as 'Veneno', 'Caronte', 'Velvet' and 'Física o Química', gives life here to Bellísima, an X film actress who in this Sunday's chapter joins the plot. María de Nati, Andrés Velencoso, Pepa Charro and Edu Soto, among others, are also part of the cast.

She has said that she is not a porn consumer. There is a discourse around this industry, about whether it is violent and sexist. What do you think? I don't have a formed opinion; I'm not an expert or a porn actress, so I don't know if there is violence in porn. Maybe I haven't consumed it because I don't feel represented, neither I nor my way of living sexuality. Through the series I have researched and discovered how little this industry has evolved since Hugh Hefner [founder of 'Playboy'] was in the 60s. Now there are other narratives, such as women's porn, but the one that is consumed the most still has a lot to do with it. Add to this the toxic masculinity of the 90s, and you're left with a gender... He has very young children who will be teenagers and maybe watch porn. Now many are educated there. I hope that if they do, it will be different from the current one. Sex education cannot be replaced by porn, nor should we wait for school; You should start at home. Receiving it will make us connect with our desire, which is the only formula for consent. If we also develop empathy to know if the other is desiring us, there will be no conflict. It is difficult to build a character who is always in her underwear, although my main challenge was to show a woman who seems to enjoy her work as a porn actress while the pilot is on, but when it goes out, she transits towards the greatest of darkness. She wants to get out of that industry, but stigma keeps her prisoner. It is based on a real woman, who was Nacho Vidal's partner. I have known her through the stories she told me.What do you think of Nacho Vidal? It is hypnotic and reality surpasses fiction, as with Cicciolina, a character that I find fascinating and whom I have already played. Nacho has an ability to fix things and spoil them at the same time, he has lived on the edge. He has been generous in telling us his story, despite the prejudices he knows it raises.

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Have you ever felt as imprisoned as Bellísima? Sometimes I feel that the characters I receive have a common component of sexualization, although I already face them as an opportunity to do something different always. And I'm getting it. Has the shooting been different from other works?No. The difference that the intimacy coordinator has brought is that it acts as a filter with your partner. What you used to talk to him in the dressing room, now that figure filters it, as if they can touch your ass or give you a kiss with tongue. Barring that, everything has been the same. Also the protections we use in sex scenes. Why are porn actors and their industry so far removed from mainstream cinema? We live together, but we don't mix. We use different tools. We work more with emotion, although we have in common that we are for what another has imagined. You can work in Italian, Spanish and English. What aspirations do you have? I am willing to go anywhere there is a character, I have worked a lot in Italy, for example, but for me dreams are here. I hope to be part of another year as good for Spanish cinema as this one has been. He has said that he has felt imposter syndrome. Where does it come from? Self-demand is very fucking. It makes you feel that there are others who do it better. Fidel, my yoga teacher, has changed my life. It helps me overcome frustration and combat what I think of myself when I'm not able to achieve something. She has spoken publicly about her infertility problems. My intimacy is very boring, I do not publish many things of mine, but I talked about this in networks out of empathy. I did it from the privilege of someone who has become pregnant, but with the perspective of having spent many Mother's Days without children. We believe that motherhood is just loving it and we do not know something as basic about our body as the ovarian reserve. Infertility is lived from silence and that stigmatizes us. In a job like yours, is recovering the physique after motherhood important? The actors tell stories and the physique should not condition, although it does. I lived a hormone process and gained 30 kilos. I haven't gone back to my weight, but that concept doesn't interest me at all. Many have talked about my change, but the normative thing is not to be Gisele Bündchen, it is us. Getting pregnant, gaining weight... That is normative. I haven't been at home suffering from getting fat. What characters would you like to be offered? I prefer to enjoy what comes, although comedy as such is a genre that I have not touched and I find it very difficult. It is a different concept for each one and connecting with that seems very interesting to me. Sadness, on the other hand, addresses many commonplaces.

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