At 59 years old, Alexandre Frota can say that he has lived many lives. He made dozens of soap operas, directed and produced TV programs on SBT and Record and, in recent years, has embarked on politics, where he went from the conservative right linked to Bolsonaro to flirting with the left – and to supporting Lula. But wherever this big, burly man goes, the memory of the time when he starred in porn movies is always revived.
During his term as a federal deputy, it was common for him to be stopped in the corridors of the Chamber by a politician, confiding that he had watched an erotic movie from that time.
“There’s always been that, until today. ‘Oh, I’ve seen your films, don’t tell anyone’. Both men and women, sometimes from people I didn’t even expect”, he says. “The guy consumes, watches, likes and the guy criticizes you. Then you go to his Instagram or Twitter bio and it’s there: conservative, family, Christian, loves the country.”
Not infrequently, in discussions with other politicians, this detail in the biography was used as an arsenal. It was like this with Eduardo Bolsonaro at the Fake News CPMI, in 2019 – Frota had already switched sides and attacked the then government of Jair Bolsonaro. The president’s son was hit by the jugular: “You were less promiscuous when you only did porn movies”. Frota replied with an ironic smile: “Yeah, you watched it a lot, right? I know you like it” (Listen here)
“I always knew that at some point someone was going to say something related to this in Brasilia. I walked around with a suitcase full of DVDs, the complete collection without the DVD inside, just the covers, thinking that when someone said something, I would it was going to turn: ‘my brother, I always knew you were my fan, I brought you the collection’. But that day I forgot the suitcase, it was going to be ‘the’ scene”, he remembers.
This career milestone is not remembered for nothing. Frota is the protagonist of an era in which porn became a national issue, largely due to the entry of entertainment celebrities into the casting of adult film producers – mainly Brasileirinhas.
This phase shaped a generation and the way Brazilians consume pornography – and credit has to be given: all of this came from Frota’s head in 2004. ‘no, no, no’. When I had nothing to do, I thought: ‘I’m going to have sex, I like it and I do it well'”, he says.
This is the motto of the podcast “Brasil para Maiores”, which investigates this delusional period in Brazil. The interview with Alexandre Frota is an extra episode of the series.
The video chat can also be watched in full at the top of the page. Below are some highlights:
Begin of carreer
Since I started doing theater, my body has always been exposed to the audience. In the play ‘Blue Jeans’, I took a shower in front of the audience, completely naked. For me it was always very peaceful. I was, after Mário Gomes, the guy who arrived wearing jeans, no shirt. And then came Humberto Martins. came the [Marcos] Quibbler, Marcello Novaes? He is a character that works, especially in soap operas at seven o’clock. The kind of bad boy, kind of ripped, dumb guy.
Entrance to porn
When everything happened to me – this whole phase that I was very excited about, I really liked filming, photographing, I lived at night -, I didn’t have a family, I lived alone, I had ten girlfriends, I went to parties, I didn’t have to satisfy anyone. I lived in that world, I really liked making movies, I really like sex, I was obsessed with sex. Today no more.
Change in the porn market
I demanded catering, separate rooms, makeup artist, a bunch of things. It became a production. A film they made with ten people, suddenly they started making it with 60. It never had professionalism [no pornô] until my arrival, which is why there is a market before and a market after.
Film with Bianca Soares, a trans woman
I loved making the movie. Half of my fighting friends from the gym disappeared, many people were shocked. (…) I sat down with my son, when he was 11 years old, to exchange an idea. He was going to end up bumping into social media for an hour, so I had to have a very serious conversation with him. Now I’m getting ready to have this conversation with my daughter, who is now four years old (…) In Brazil, when you do porn, it takes on a different proportion. It seems that everything I did back there ceased to exist.
no-brake phase
I had no brakes, living everything you can imagine: cocaine, sweets, ecstasy. I was still taking a Cialis. I did everything together and did more, because at bedtime I took Dormonid. You’re looking at a guy who’s alive by a miracle. I’ve been clean for almost 12 years, I’ve become a different person. That Alexandre Frota that existed was something else. I don’t know anyone else who has associated cocaine with sex and got away with it. (…) There was no tomorrow. (…) I lived in a short circuit.
Fear to die
After what happened with Chorão, I thought: ‘wow, will my mother ever turn on the television and see the news that her son was found dead in a low-class hotel with an overdose?’. I thought several times about admitting myself, I cried, I looked and everyone was married, with a girlfriend, a family. And I dont. They were my choices and I walked into this hole. (…) This thing about sex, drugs, nights out, sensuality, I got very involved and I was very involved in all of this. (…) I surfed this wave, I was harmed in many things, people on the other hand loved it. When you’re in that mindset, you don’t understand that you’re going to get old.
Sacanagem in Brasilia
I’m not political at all, I don’t like to sit down to dinner with those guys. It’s not that I don’t know [histórias sobre sexo], there is whoring, but I won’t (…) The real whoring is in Brasilia. In Brasilia, leather eats in all senses. Mess with power and a lot of money, [o sexo] it is always present. (…) I caught a couple of deputies having sex in the Chamber, I opened the door and the leather was eating inside (…) People ask me if Brasilia or an artistic career was more difficult. Both deal with betrayal, seduction, pulling the rug out, with power, with money.
Bolsonarist shock troops
The shot of 1945 was not about pornography, it was Bolsonarism (…) I had many clashes on social networks, I was sued a lot and I was condemned. Most of these lawsuits were defending fucking Bolsonaro. When I arrive and sit down with him, I say: ‘Man, I have a lot of work to do here. I need the party to help me, or you’. And then I heard: ‘it’s your mouth, you said it, you turn around’. (…) I was sued by Brazilian popular music, by Caetano, Gil and Chico and they are all my friends. I clashed with them and lost them all. And I had no help. I spent these last few years paying for a lot of things, but it was due to an ideology that today I see as completely wrong.
Fleet at 59
Today, almost 60 years old, I don’t have the same vigor anymore (…) When I look back, I think: ‘wow, I survived’. It’s like I went paddling against a wave from Nazareth [praia de ondas gigantes em Portugal]. My life was like that, failure, victories, I got rich, I got poor, I loved, I cried, I lived, I traveled, fuck, I went out with everyone I could go out with and with whom I didn’t want too, you know? I did everything I could do. I must be about 300 and twenty years old. (…) I reached 59, I’m fine, I want to stay alive, I want to see my daughter turn 15, I try to walk in line. I lost the will to go to the gym. This supplement thing? I was a slave to my body for more than twenty years, you can’t have a belly, you can’t have anything. The day I got white hair, I said: ‘I’m going to let it go gray’. I don’t care about shit, I want to eat bread and butter, I want to live.
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