Barbie Ferreira is a pure whirlwind. Speak very fast and not to gesture and laugh. He is happy to be in Barcelona, a city that knows well because here he has done some campaigns as a model of large mango sizes. “It was my livelihood for a couple of years,” he recalls in conversation with this newspaper at a central hotel in the Catalan capital. For a few years, this American of Brazilian origin has become an icon of the body positive movement, combines modeling, where he debuted at 16, with the performance, where he jumped to fame as Kat Hernández in the first two seasons of the successful Euphoria series, in the role of a teenager worried about his physique who ends up reconverted in Dominatrix. From Rosalía, which will appear in the cast of the third season, he says: “I am a big fan of her.” Ferreira as Kat Hernández in ‘Euphoria’ HBO to the city has now moved to present a Like from Bob Trevino, inaugural film of the BCN Film Fest, where he plays Lily Trevino, about twenty lonely one abandoned by a selfish father. As he does not respond to the calls or open the door of his house, he tries to contact him on Facebook and finds a man (John Leguizamo) who is called the same as the parent, Bob Trevino, with which he begins to chat and maintain a beautiful friendship relationship. Read also Astrid Meseguer Bob is married, he works as a construction manager in a construction company in which the promised promotion never arrives and lost to his only child when he was little because of a disease. Lily and Bob are two wounded souls who help each other to survive in a world where good people usually suffer. “I think there are many films that portray dark parts of humanity, and it is somehow highlights the opposite,” says Ferreira. The film, of the debutant Tracie Laymon and based on real events that happened to the director herself, won the public prize in the last edition of the Seinci. I think there are many films that portray dark parts of humanity, and it is somehow highlights the opposite Ferreira also acts as a co -producer. “They gave me the script a couple of years ago and I did not know that I was based on a real story. I remember reading it and feeling so moved that I did not hesitate to participate in it. So I met with tracie and we spent a lot of time talking for hours about our lives, our similarities – the actress was raised without the figure of a father – and what Lily would be like.” He assures that he interpreted it “as my inner girl, as if my children’s self seized my adult body due to all the immense trauma that has passed and has not prosecuted it.” He insists that “it was difficult to cross those emotions, and that sadness and shame of being abandoned. In the end it was like a therapy session for me, a cathartic experience.” Photogram of ‘A’ Like ‘of Bob Trevino’ A countercurrent films his character is accustomed since childhood to assume the guilt of everything. The mother was a drug addict and the father accuses her of ruining her life. But it is hard for her to get angry. “I grew up with very similar, but also different people, and I also thought that everything was my fault. I thought: ‘Oh, it is for me.’ You know, but this movie really shows how important it is, when raising a child, showing a guide and love. The greater you do and less process something, the more you stay in your body. Lily always tries to maintain peace, but when something happens, it cannot be controlled.” Lee also Leonor Major Ortega Ferreira and Leguizamo show a great chemistry on the screen. “I am very happy to have worked with John. I still can’t believe it. I grew up watching his films. We are both Latin and is a wonderful person.” The actress argues that Lily is “a complicated woman who has never fulfilled. She has been living in the reality that her narcissistic father has created for her. It is like a virus. And when you live in such a childhood, your sense of reality can change a lot. And I think Lily is a person who works in automatic pilot, without wondering anything and is in an incredibly difficult trip to reintroduce himself.” Lily is a complicated woman who has never done completely. She has been living in the reality that her narcissistic father has created for her recalls that the director told her that when she was so traumatized and had not worked on it, “he did not even know when he was hungry. He couldn’t even listen to his body.” In spite of everything, the story that tells a Like of Bob Trevino is optimistic and claims the value of those other families that we choose in life. “I grew up with friendship as something incredibly important. My mother never told me that I needed to marry. She instilled that having people close is important. Many people who came on vacation were other Brazilian immigrants in the area. And they were people with whom I also grew up. I have good friends who live with me almost half of the time. I always have friends at home. They are my relatives.” Ferreira confesses that his little boy was a child was to be an actress and that making a model began to open the doors. “I was always an entrepreneur,” says the interpreter, who is also behind the camera. “I was going to New York from Jerseytown to my interpretation classes. In 2016 he managed to position himself in the list of most influential teenagers in Time magazine. Barbie Ferreira, the leading actress of the movie ‘A’ Like ‘by Bob Trevino’ Quique García / Efe says he manages fame as best he can. “I feel very grateful for what I have achieved. I am a Brazilian girl who was a fan of many people in my adolescence and did anything to greet them. So I always remember him. When I was 15 I was dying to see One Direction and take a picture with them. So I never think about negative when people approach me.” Ferreira is very active in social networks, where she usually hangs selfies and videos. Do you think it is essential to be an actor? “I think it is important, not so much for the performance, but it helps me to promote my work. In my case I do many creative things on my own. Design clothing for Levi’s and things like that, so the networks help me a lot in that aspect of my career. Acting is something sacred to me,” he admits. I have hope in the United States because I love my country. Although everything is falling apart and the world is in flames, I have hope, perhaps naive, that everything will quote Cate Blanchett as his favorite actress and the interpretation of Charlize Theron in Monster as a great inspiration. He likes Spanish cinema, especially returning, from Almodóvar: “I want to be the next Almodóvar girl!” Euphoric. On the situation in the United States, with Donald Trump engaged in a commercial war with everyone and many artists leaving the country, Ferreira believes it is something horrible. “It looks like a circus every day. It’s nothing fun. I always have hope in the United States because I love my country. Although I am of Brazilian origin, I was born and grew up there. Although everything is falling apart and the world is on fire, I have hope, perhaps naive, that everything will go well. And I think it is because I also believe in humans” “.
‘A’ Like ‘by Bob Trevino’, the film that has served as catharsis to Barbie Ferreira
