Actor António Capelo
Association wants informative warning before each episode with the 66 -year -old actor on the small screen, in defense of sexual abuse victims. Monologue of the actor scheduled for the 4th was canceled.
Accused of sexual and moral harassment by former students of the Show Contemporary Academy (ACE), in Porto, the actor and director António Capelo It’s being. One of the cases that gained the most visibility was under 16 years old (now 43) who spoke in an interview with SIC about his traumatizing experience with the actor.
According to Mia Filipa’s testimony, the facts go back to when she was 16 and attended the school of arts. Capelo, then a teacher and artistic director, would have begun physical and verbal approaches that later evolved into situations of forced intimacy, he recalls.
“I felt my tail as I passed me (…). He started laughing like it was a joke or unintentionally. In relaxation, my neck came to me, to give as an example, came to do examples of massages. I called me Piriquito. There was this nickname affectionate that did not have with everyone. Then it was the gifts, the messages you sent, ”he says, quoted by.
On top of the touches and comments, or invitations to private meetings, Capelo will have promised work in a soap opera: “He used all these strategies to delude me to me who was a young woman who came from a context of poverty, difficulty, a path already suffered.”
Capelo insisted on sexual sex before the ‘blacks’, says the victim.
“I remember wanting to have parties on my head and I am withdrawn and The time came when I was excited, took it in my hand and put my hand on his sexual organ and started rubbing. I didn’t know what to do, I felt cornered. He asked me to have oral sex, ”he says.
Only years later, during therapy sessions, he understood that he had been the target of abuse.
“He rejected the house and he said, ‘Don’t think it’s just sex. I’m not calling you because of that’ only later it was,” he recalls. I remember going home and feeling completely disgusting, wanting to wash all over. To this day, I never forgot. I can’t even be close to a person who has the same perfume he wore, ”says Mia Filipa who, after a cut in the relationship, says she was the subject of humiliations in the school context, which aggravated the psychological impact of the experience.
O If it is not isolated. Other complaints, released through the page “”, gathered similar reports from ACE alumni. A demonstration held in Porto sought to give voice to the alleged victims and draw attention to the need to prevent situations of abuse in artistic and teaching institutions.
Warning before the soap opera is “fundamental”
However, the monologue of the 66 -year -old actor, in the show “Nobody”, scheduled for October 4, was canceled In Monção following the complaints, according to.
At the same time, the association breaks the silence recently appealed to the plural Entertainment, TVI and Prime Video to include an informative warning before each episode of the soap opera “Terra Forte”, which is scheduled for the last quarter of this year and which is part of the cast.
In a statement to the observer, the association stresses that the presence of the actor in prime time on national television may deeply affect survivors of sexual violence, triggering malaise, reviving traumatic memories and feelings of invalidation of their voices and denunciations. ”
According to breaking silence, the display of an alleged aggressor in prominent spaces can intensify the suffering of the victims and convey the idea that their experience is “secondized” in favor of entertainment.
“Breaking the silence understands that the display of the soap opera Terra Forte is part of the television grid and acknowledges that the accusations have become public only recently. However, precisely for this reason, it considers it fundamental that the media group – through plural entertainment and TVI – introduce a informative warning before each episode, accompanied by the contacts of specialized support organizations. This is a practice already adopted in several countries and that is a sign of social responsibility and commitment, ”they say in the statement.
António Capelo denies all accusations And it claims that it never practiced any act of harassment. The actor’s defense stresses that there is no material evidence that supports the complaints, but the investigation is underway.
