Africa-Press – Cape verde. Actor and singer César Mourão — this month distinguished with the ‘Globo de Ouro Especial 25 Anos SIC’ in the Humor category, for the career he built — in conversation with Brazilian comedian Fábio Porchat said that in 2001 he came to Cape Verde on vacation with his girlfriend and unable to raise money, he was lucky enough to “be saved” by a Cape Verdean. And isn’t it that twenty years later, in the same situation, the same Cape Verdean came to the rescue again?
César Mourão says that when he purchased the trip in Lisbon, he was assured that his bank card would work in Cape Verde. But in reality this didn’t happen, as he saw when paying on the last day.
“In the morning I woke up and said to my girlfriend: ‘Look, the best thing is to go to the bank first thing in the morning, before lunch, to withdraw money and then pay for the hotel, pay for the car…”, he recalls.
At the bank, on the island of Sal, César Mourão realized that the card didn’t work. “It often happens to Italians and Portuguese”, they told him.
“They spoke to my bank in Portugal, they didn’t even know who I was, a series of bureaucracies”, he describes. The Portuguese man notes that he called his bank with the only coins he had, but they didn’t solve his problem.
It was then that he remembered that he had a check that his agent had written to him. She went back to the bank to exchange it for money, but… the signature “is not recognized”, the employee told her. “I still managed to get him to make one more attempt, even after closing time….but it didn’t work out, my agent signed it anyway, which in Portugal isn’t a problem.”
Without money, César says he saw a Senegalese man with a guitar outside a church and thought “I’m going to have to borrow it, so I can ask people on the street for money.”
«I sit next to this Senegalese man and he asks me if I want to buy something. ‘I have less money than you at this point’», he says, making the audience of Que História É Essa, Porchat? .
Continuing, the comedian says that it was then that he saw the man from whom he had rented the car, who realized the situation and introduced him to the owner of a restaurant. He was the one who agreed to exchange the check for cash.
Twenty years later, it was precisely this restaurant owner who would “save the life” of César Mourão, for the second time.
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The program is on the internet and has millions of views. Repeats Sunday, 21st on Globo.
Photos: Portuguese actor César Mourão, 45 years old, made people laugh with the story he told about his trip to Sal in 2001 and 2021. What’s That Story, Porchat? by Brazilian Fábio Porchat, a 40-year-old presenter, will also air this Sunday 21st on Globo.
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