How Do Actors Who Do Love Scenes Do Not Get Turned On?

Well, it depends on a number of things …

I remember a conversation I had with Ana Paula Arósio (a famous brazilian actress), while we waited to record a scene during the miniseries “Um Só Coração”. We were talking about the high turnover of actors and actresses couples, and I asked her why she thought this was happening. And she replied, “It’s easy: we live in an environment where the beauty of our colleagues is always above average, and where we need to interact closely with them. It is natural that some attraction appears. ”.

I coudn’t agree more, in fact, I met my fiancee in a rehearsal room. But … temptations are not always “temptations”.

I remember, right at the beginning of my training as an actor, having to do the first love scene of my entire class. In other words, nobody had done another scene, we had no parameters and, worse: me and the actress I had to act with, we hated each other. It was a very weird experience … Because, really, I had to act. I had no pleasure in that scene, quite the opposite — and I imagine the actress felt the same way.

From then on, still in drama school, all my love scenes (I had scenes like that in all the plays I did until I graduated) were with the same actress. And she was a beautiful actress, the most beautiful girl in the class. Only…