Surprising news known this Thursday, December 18: Eduardo Casanova (34 years old) admitted that he lived with HIV for years. The actor thus becomes the first media personality in Spain to publicly declare that he suffers from this disease.
A gesture, it should be remembered, long requested by activists to fight against social stigma. The news was made public this Thursday 18, coinciding with the production of a documentary also based on the director’s life.
Atrésmedia And Neighborhood productions are preparing a documentary with Casanova which will be released in theaters in 2026. In the feature film, directed by Màrius Sànchez and Luis Galter and produced by Jordi Evole (51), Casanova makes the most intimate and transcendent revelation of his life.
“I have HIV. Today I break this unpleasant and painful silence after many years.. A silence that many of us, people living with HIV, maintain and suffer from. I do it when I want. When I can. I do it for mebut I wish it could help more people,” he said.
And he adds: “I do it in my own way, through cinema, what is my way of communicating. But above all, I do it with dignity. “Dignity should be the means by which all people living with HIV can cope.”
“Approximately 80% of HIV-positive people didn’t share with almost anyone that he was infectedbecause of a stigma that condemns us to systematic and most unjust rejection in the world”, also underlines the memorable actor of Aida.
Eduardo Casanova, in an archive photograph.
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Regarding the production in which he will tell his life story, Casanova emphasizes: “I want to briefly explain what it is: it is a documentary film, It’s not a TV show. It will be released in theaters, Soon, next year. There will be time to explain more things“.
He concludes: “Despite the fear and uncertainty, today I feel deeply happy“.
On another note, it should be noted that there is no precedent in Spain for a person as well-known as Casanova who declared publicly who lives with HIV.
A step which organizations And activists They have been calling for many years to help end the social stigma associated with the virus.
After half a life in silence, Eduardo decides to say it publicly. But first you need to talk about it with some of the people who accompanied you during these years: your doctor, your nurse, his closest collaborators, his friends.
The documentary was filmed this fall and shows a “cathartic journey with humor, emotion, memory and cinemawhich allows us to understand the reality of HIV-positive people today and to better understand who Eduardo Casanova is”, as the press release specifies.
Just a few days ago, the actor spoke about HIV during an interview in Fire Xouas part of the presentation of Silenceits first series premiered on December 1 on Movistar Plus+ and which stars Lucie Diez, Dusty Anne (38) and Marie Leon (41).
Of course, he didn’t reveal then that he was living with the virus. “Silence is the perfect word to speak what HIV means today, because it does not kill in Spain. In more depressed countries such as Africa, which is a continent, yes. They are dying of AIDS, which are different diseases,” he said.
“The big problem today with HIV in Spain it’s not death, but the silence. This silence in which HIV-positive people live, this stigmatization, is a horrible prison that leads in some way to death. “76% of people who have it today haven’t told anyone,” he said.
“Thanks to the medications that exist, now it makes you undetectableso you cannot transmit the virus and you do not die from HIV. But the only side effect that exists, one way or another, is mental health, which is depression and anxiety,” he added.
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