The actress Malena Alterio stars in the new series from Prime Video, Cochinas, where she plays Nines, a woman who ends up running a video store specialized in adult cinema in Valladolid in the late 90s. The fiction, which arrives this Friday, April 24 after its screening at the Festival de Málaga, uses this context to address topics such as female desire, sexual education, and the evolution of the social view on pornography.
Alterio has warned about the ease with which minors today access this type of content. “It is terrifying to think that increasingly younger children have access to pornography”, says the actress, who insists on the need to act from education. “Real sex education is needed, from early ages, that explains what is seen and what is not real”, she adds. The actress also reflects on the impact of fiction on the perception of sexuality. “Many images are misinterpreted that, out of context, are violent and do not educate at all”, she states, emphasizing that the problem is not only access, but the lack of tools to interpret it. “The risk is that porn becomes the only reference for understanding sex”, she warns.
In the series, porn functions as a starting point for a collective transformation in the neighborhood. “It's not the topic itself, it's the excuse for these women to start talking about what they had never talked about”, explains Alterio about the focus of the fiction. “Suddenly they dare to question their own sexuality without guilt or silences”, she adds.
His castmates reinforce this idea. Álvaro Mel defends the need for a more structured education: “It cannot be that a kid's only sex education is the internet”, he points out. And he adds: “One should regulate, educate and accompany, not look the other way”.
For her part, director Laura M. Campos highlights the social focus of the series: “Porn here is not provocation, it's an uncomfortable mirror”, she states. She also emphasizes the generational component: “It's very strong that we are still surprised to see real bodies on screen”, she reflects.
With Cochinas, Alterio and the creative team present a critical look on sexuality, education and the taboos still present in current society, in a series that combines humor, customs and social debate.