Álvaro Morte is one of the fashionable actors in our country. The interpreter will always be remembered for his role as the famous Professor of La Casa de Papel, which gave him the opportunity to participate in other successful projects, such as After the storm or The wheel of time, just to name a few.
Many know about his professional career, but few know that the actor suffered from cancer 15 years ago. The doctors detected a malignant tumor on his left thigh, and his life stopped at that moment. He himself has told it in El Faro de Mara Torres, in Cadena Ser; taking the opportunity to launch a reflection on the need not to “burden” the patient with the responsibility of his own healing.
The actor recounts his experience after receiving his cancer diagnosis, criticizing the “dictatorship of positivism” that seems to exist in our society, especially in situations as delicate as this one.
“They told me that they were cutting off my leg, that they didn’t know how much I would have left… When they give you news like this, you can take it in many ways. You are completely free to take it however you want. You have every right to suffer. Lately there is a current with which I do not agree at all that says that, if you believe that you are going to be cured, you will be cured, that you are surely going to win the battle”, he criticizes, insisting that the sick “already have enough” with what they have.
“The one who has to fight to save it is the doctor. We cannot dump the responsibility of whether or not you heal on whether you are more or less encouraged, or if you take it better or worse,” he insists, recognizing that everyone has the right to suffer and, of course, to collapse in the assimilation process: “We cannot dump the responsibility of whether or not you are cured if you are more or less encouraged, or if you take it better or worse”.
Despite his criticism, the actor assures that he has always been a very optimistic guy, and he decided to continue that way when he received his diagnosis.
“I love to laugh a little at everything I can, whenever I can. I don’t want to say that I took it jokingly, but I did try not to get my spirits down,” he revealed, adding that he believes that “things in life They happen because they have to.”
The actor is of the belief that his diagnosis came at the time it had to come. Luckily, everything went well and he is fully recovered.
“It could have happened to me at any time in my life, but it happened to me at that moment. If it’s true that there’s a part where you say ‘well, if they’re going to cut off my leg, how am I going to continue working as an actor?’ But hey, I preferred not to think about it and in the end everything fortunately went well and he has never shown his face again.”
At 48, the actor can be thankful for feeling more alive than ever and for having been able to continue dedicated to his great passion, acting: “The worst thing about a disease is feeling sick. What worked for me to deal with it was feel alive.”
