Cassius Scapin He is no longer the 28-year-old boy who is immortalized in the memory of most Brazilians as Nino from “Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum”. Today, at 61 years old, he is proud of everything he has achieved over the years and is able to feel satisfied with what you see in the mirror. The actor tells CNN Brazil who has an intense physical exercise routine and who doesn’t mind having reached old age.
He reflects that passing the barrier of six decades of life means doing a “violent check” of what he has built. He declares that he prefers not to be nostalgic about the events that have already passed, but to focus on everything he is building now and the results he has at this moment.
“I don’t want to think that it’s an accumulation of experiences. I think it has to do with an exercise of freedom that I didn’t have before. It’s very liberating to turn 60 in some senses: I see how much time I wasted on nonsense with some things that didn’t make sense, We care less about other people’s opinionscares more about our doubts, our way of living… I think this came through strongly, mainly to understand that life is here and now”, he details.
“It’s wonderful to be 61 years old, but I I refuse to join the elderly line… I am not going! I’m a 61-year-old guy who doesn’t need this. I can wait calmly. It’s important to think that I’m not the only one who’s this age… Brazil is getting older”, he adds.
This vitality is due to an intense body care routine, from ballet and gym to . Cassio emphasizes that he does not want to erase the natural traces of time, but to maintain a physical appearance similar to the one he had for more than 50 years.
“I do classical ballet three times a week at Theatro Municipal and I also go to the gym almost every day. I also undergo treatment to hydrate the skin and a botox from time to time, especially on the tip of my nose so it doesn’t look curved, since I have a big nose… I’m not very radical. I think you have to hold back! I don’t do it to get younger, but to know how old I want to get. Aging is inevitable. There are days when I like looking at myself in the mirror, but there are days when I don’t. It also has to do with the mood of that day”, he believes.
Despite being born at a time when it was said that male vanity was “not a man’s thing”, the actor remembers that since he was a child he was always very vain, “neat”, a different boy who liked fashion. He says that his mother, Dona Cidashe was a seamstress and always had magazines at home that dictated fashion.
“I went a lot, I took a fashion history course with a curator at the Berlin fashion museum. For me, it is a reflection of a conversation with society, how you view your own personality. Fashion as a commercial object that transforms and changes all the time, that doesn’t interest me. As a construction of a thought, a reasoning and marks an era, this one interests me. I take care of myself, I like that, I know I’m not in the pretty crowd, so I move my vanity to another place, in a different way, so I like to take care of myself”, he explains.
He was on show in São Paulo with the show “Histeria”, a comedy directed by , in which he shows the real meeting between the doctor Sigmund Freud and the painter Salvador Dalí, and now he plays the physicist Albert Einstein in “Insignificância”, a character who did a photo shoot in which he appears completely not (see in the gallery). Regarding this more open relationship with nudity, Cassio jokes that he was “one of the actors who was most naked in his entire career”.
“I have no problems with my body. Nudity is calm for me, you are naked under your clothes…so I don’t have any problem with that. It’s all very ok.”
For 2025, he has plans to take the show to several Brazilian cities and begin new theatrical work that is still kept secret.
“I’m continuing with ‘Hysteria’, traveling on tour until the middle of next year, and, from the second half of the year, I’m going to start a new project, a comedy for next year. But the premiere is probably only going to debut in 2026.
