Petra Martínez and masturbation at 77: “The most important thing is to have done it in front of many people”

Petra Martínez received the award for Best Actress at the Feroz. At 77 years old and after a long career, his speech delighted his colleagues and the general public. The veteran actress from Jaén mixed humor and irony in a story that she now confesses was totally improvised and in which she referred to one of the great taboos that still persist in our society: masturbation.

“The most important thing is having masturbated in front of many people,” he confessed about his role in ‘Life was that’ and the importance of breaking down walls. “Because I think that masturbation is totally silenced, and now I masturbate about three or four times a day because I’ve caught the mania, and Juan (her husband) tells me: let’s go to bed. And I tell him: no, I prefer on the sofa, watching TV, and I masturbate watching Javier (Camera),” he said to the laughter of the audience.

Now, in an interview on Cadena Ser, the actress has gone beyond the joke. She admits that she exaggerated a bit by saying that she did it 3 or 4 times a day, but she does admit that he had many prejudices in his head to play the role simply because of that masturbation scene.

“It’s not about age, but when I got the script it was beautiful. It was within an interpretive range. I knew it could be good. But suddenly there was a scene that was a masturbation. I told my agent no. But in the end the director convinced me. And I thank you,” he acknowledges.

“It will be a movie that I will never forget. And it turns out that even in interviews it was difficult for me to say the word. And it is that we are very stupid, because it is a natural thing. The word masturbation scared me. It made me shy. But I do not think what I’m going to say when they give me prizes. It came out like this. Without realizing it, I had to go around in my head and say why I was so stupid. How could that term have influenced me? You don’t know how happy I am. I have removed a silly taboo that I had“, he admits.