Dorothea Mercouri: “All homosexuals of our village in southern Italy were at my grandmother’s house”

She spoke about the village in southern Italy where she grew up, in which there were many men and the great acceptance they had known from both her own family and the entire community, in her appearance in the show “Super Katerina”. A pretext for talking about her childhood, Dorothea Mercouri, stood the multitude of homophobic comments accepted by the theatre performance “Brokeback Mountain”, in which she participates, which focuses on a love between two gay cowboys of America. ADVERSE “I don’t bother and I don’t read reviews because I want to focus on what I do there. And the kids weren’t too affected. On the other hand, I understand that this can create some dissatisfaction with some people. So far no one has stood up to leave the show and most who come and see the show are crying,” Dorothea Mercouri told “Super Katerina”. “So far because I’m sitting in front of the whole show, that is, during the performance I don’t leave the stage, because I have a role and a singer, I’m Jack’s mom, Mr. Kapouranis, and I sing 12 songs, it’s enough. I see what’s going on ahead, so far no one has stood up to leave, and most people who come and see the show are crying, laughing, all the feelings we need in the theater, taking them through this show,” he said. “I am half Italian and my grandmother had too many gay friends. Our village homosexuals were all at my grandmother’s house. I have grown up in a house in southern Italy and there was nothing strange about having gay men,” the actress stressed.