Pep Ferrer: Returning to the dating scene after 40

Actor Pep Ferrer perfectly remembers the moment he explained to his parents that he was separating from the mother of his children at the age of 42. "Live on TV, the Twin Towers in New York were collapsing." Devastated is how he felt after the separation. For two, three, even four years. "I suffered a lot, I didn't touch a quarter or an hour. Time, luckily, always gives things a sweeter patina. I lived through it and it's okay, that's life, there are good things, and the small print is that you will have to go through very difficult times. We are the sum of what we have lived through. I have had moments of sadness, but I have had moments of sadness, but lived. We deserve it," the actor reflects.

When he felt strong enough to start over, Ferrer signed up for a website to find a partner. At the time, he was appearing in a TV3 series and didn't want to be recognized, so he didn't post any photographs. match with Emilia, who always rejected profiles that didn't have a photo and this time made an exception because she was struck by the nickname the actor had given himself: Pedro Páramo, the title of Juan Rulfo's first and emblematic novel. "At least he reads," Emilia thought.

After making match, Ferrer sent her a photograph by email, but Emilia didn't recognize his face at all. "I had done Family secrets and The heart of the city, but she was more than Nizaga of power", the actor explains.

They met a month later at the Mapfre Towers in Barcelona. It was the Mercè festival and planes were passing over the beach. "We went to make a frying pan and spent the whole afternoon walking up and down: we got used to it together and now they're already short." After that first date, they continued to each other. Páramo saved me," the actor says smiling.

With Emilia, they decided that they would each live in their own house, and that's how it's always been. In October 2022, they got married. "Emilia was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in her breast and it came out, it came out. You reach an age where sometimes you run into your friends more at the funeral home than in other places. We had a party and it was extraordinary." He greatly admires Emilia's intelligence. "I learn every day. She's retired now. She was a philosophy teacher and always said, 'I don't want to teach philosophy, I want to teach thinking.'"