Pedro Cardoso once again criticizes Globo's treatment: "contempt"
In an interview with Jovem Pan radio, actor Pedro Cardoso once again criticized TV Globo, the network where he worked for over 30 years; according to him, Globo, like other Brazilian networks, is very "conservative"; Cardoso recounted the treatment he received from the television station. "They showed utter contempt for my work there," he lamented.
Red Portal - Actor Pedro Cardoso, in an interview with the Pânico program on Jovem Pan radio this Wednesday (22), once again criticized TV Globo, the network he worked for over 30 years. According to him, Globo, like other Brazilian networks, is very "conservative". On that occasion, Cardoso recounted the treatment he received from the television station. "They had the most absolute contempt for my work there," he lamented.
"I thought that after 'A Grande Família,' with the immense impact my work had had, TV Globo would offer me a time slot to develop my own original project. They had no interest whatsoever and showed utter disregard for my history there. So much so that our contract lasted a little over a year and then ended."
Pedro Cardoso played one of the central characters in the comedy series "A Grande Família," the taxi driver Agostinho Carrara, which aired for 14 years. During that time, the actor said he tried to get other projects off the ground at the network, but was unsuccessful. "When 'A Grande Família' ended, I presented two projects to Globo. But they didn't like them."
Shortly after leaving Rede Globo, the actor, in an interview with the UOL portal, said that he sees Brazilian television today as very "cowardly and conservative" ("Brazilian television is still stuck in the Brazil of FHC (Fernando Henrique Cardoso)."). For him, the actor is the driving force of television drama. "It's the actor who gives a face to everyone's work. This gives the actor immeasurable power. Nobody really knows who the director or the writer of 'A Grande Família' is, even though they were just as important as we were," he explained.
Pedro Cardoso clarified that Globo, like many other broadcasters, exploits its actors and prefers to hire those who don't insist on "their authorship." "They deny power to the actor. Actors are left waiting to be invited. Globo isn't sensitive to any move made by an actor," he explained, adding: "They prefer actors who have already entered the market having relinquished their authorship rights beforehand."
The actor is currently working in theater, also in production and directing. He has two plays running in São Paulo: The Primitive Man and The Loudspeaker.
Below is the interview on Jovem Pan: