Victoria Abril
Victoria Abril
Victoria Abrilis a Spanish film actress and singer. She is best known to international audiences for her performance in the movie ¡Átame!by director Pedro Almodóvar...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth4 July 1959
CountrySpain
firsts vocation
My first vocation was dance.
academy held madrid screaming turned
When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.
actress appear clothes front hired jump naked pool refused
The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
kept
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
The director had come to Madrid to court me.
dangerous heard walk
I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
acting possible work
Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.
school
I didn't go to school a lot.
girl play stories
I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
morning school night
I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
men littles hills
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
pain dancing scripts
Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
careers actresses roles
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.