Everything That Makes Bruna Marquezine Proud to Be Brazilian
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, actress Bruna Marquezine is proud to be Brazilian. Today the ‘Blue Beetle’ star joins Condé Nast Traveler to share her favorite things about Brazil, from their biggest stars including Anitta and Giselle Bündchen to the carnivals in Bahia and Rio, and more!
Transcript
00:00 Hi, I'm Bruna Marchesini and I'm gonna show you everything
00:03 that makes me really proud to be Brazilian.
00:05 We're gonna eat some food, I'm gonna teach you some slangs
00:08 and some of the best places to visit.
00:11 (upbeat music)
00:13 When you go to Rio, there's a lot of yummy food
00:26 that you have to try.
00:27 So we have a empim.
00:29 It's really, really yummy.
00:31 It's like, how can I say this?
00:33 Just give me a second.
00:38 All right, so good.
00:42 This is fried cassava.
00:44 It's similar to yuca, it's under the same umbrella.
00:48 Churrasco is the Brazilian barbecue.
00:51 So if you go to a churrascaria,
00:53 then you can have this as a starter.
00:56 If you say, I want some manioc or empim frito,
01:00 that's what they're gonna give you
01:01 and you're gonna love it for sure.
01:03 This is coxinha.
01:05 Basically, it's filled with chicken, shredded chicken
01:08 and catupiry or requeijão.
01:11 It's a Brazilian type of cheese.
01:13 I think it would be similar to cream cheese, but better.
01:18 I'm sorry.
01:19 (laughs)
01:20 Okay, so I'm gonna do this for y'all.
01:22 So this is what it looks like inside.
01:26 I know.
01:28 After walking around in Rio,
01:31 you should order a coxinha and have it with guaraná,
01:35 the Brazilian soda.
01:37 Perfect.
01:38 Mm.
01:42 Ooh.
01:45 I'm sorry, I'm just so,
01:48 you don't understand how happy I am.
01:50 Jesus.
01:51 If you go to a kid's party,
01:54 you're gonna have coxinha and a bunch of salgadinhos,
01:56 that's how we call it.
01:57 So there's the meat one, there's the risole,
02:01 the empadas, they're similar to empanadas.
02:05 Or it doesn't have to be a kid's party, I'm lying.
02:08 If you go to one of my parties,
02:09 you're gonna find coxinha.
02:12 And if you go to Brazil, you need to try a caipirinha.
02:15 The OG is made with lemons and cachaça.
02:19 I wanna say it's like a rum, a Brazilian rum.
02:23 It's made of sugar cane.
02:26 Let's see.
02:27 That's good.
02:31 That's actually good.
02:33 Not super strong, not super sweet.
02:37 That's great.
02:37 For me, the best caipirinha vibe is during a feijoada.
02:43 Feijoada is like this really typical,
02:46 it's not only a dish, it's a ritual
02:49 that involves a lot of beans, rice, pork,
02:53 and there's covi, which is kale,
02:55 but it's prepared in a Brazilian way.
02:58 You can go to a place to have a feijoada
03:00 or a friend will invite you.
03:02 So if you go to Brazil, talk to me,
03:04 I'll invite you to a feijoada at my place.
03:06 Involves samba and a lot of music,
03:09 so it really feels like a ritual.
03:10 And it's a Sunday or Saturday type of thing.
03:13 I'm really surprised that LA has really good Brazilian food.
03:18 And I'm happy for you.
03:20 I'm really happy for you.
03:22 I am.
03:22 No, we're not.
03:28 No, I have my caipirinha.
03:35 When I'm inviting people to Brazil,
03:44 I'm like, there's a lot to see,
03:45 so I'll try to show you some of my favorite places to go.
03:49 So I'm from Rio, right here,
03:53 but we're gonna talk about Rio later.
03:56 One of my favorite places to go to is Bahia.
04:00 Bahia, everything about it, it's magical.
04:03 It has a lot of African influence,
04:06 so the food is different, the culture is different,
04:09 the music is different.
04:11 New Year's, they're like a big thing for Brazilians.
04:15 We like to wear white.
04:17 It's a big ritual.
04:18 And New Year's in Bahia, it's a lot of fun.
04:23 Carnival in Bahia is amazing.
04:27 You should definitely go to Bahia and Rio.
04:29 Completely different type of parties.
04:32 It's all carnival, but it's really different.
04:35 São Paulo, a lot of people go to São Paulo.
04:38 It's like one of the most famous states in Brazil.
04:42 I would say São Paulo, it's like the New York of Brazil,
04:47 while Rio is the LA of Brazil.
04:50 I hope Brazilians don't come after me after saying this.
04:54 If you go to Brazil, please just spend a year.
04:58 Move to Brazil.
04:59 What are you doing if you're not living in Brazil?
05:02 I think most of the stuff that we're gonna talk about,
05:05 it's in the city of Rio.
05:07 So Rio is a beautiful city.
05:09 There's this place called Pedra da Gávea.
05:12 I don't love hiking, but if you do like hiking,
05:17 you should definitely go to Pedra da Gávea
05:21 and you'll get a beautiful view of the city
05:24 when you get there.
05:25 Copacabana Beach, you've heard singers singing about it,
05:29 singing about Ipanema Beach.
05:31 Almost like it's all one beach right next to each other.
05:35 So we have Leblon, Ipanema, Copacabana.
05:38 That's the right pronunciation, by the way.
05:41 It's Copacabana.
05:42 How do you guys say it?
05:43 - Copacabana.
05:44 - Copacabana.
05:46 Copacabana.
05:47 Okay, I'll accept Copacabana or Ipanema,
05:51 but it's Copacabana, Ipanema.
05:56 So when you're trying to find a friend that is at the beach,
05:59 he's gonna ask like, "What post you're next to?"
06:03 Basically, there are sections
06:05 and there's a number for every section.
06:08 So you're gonna be like, "I'm next to the Posto 9,
06:11 "the Posto 9, Posto 4."
06:14 So it's easier to find your friends.
06:16 The place I'm living at right now,
06:19 it's close to like a gay section and I love it.
06:22 It's always a lot of fun.
06:24 I have friends that only go to a certain posto.
06:27 I like the food, I like the type of people,
06:29 I like the vibe.
06:31 And one thing that is really different from LA,
06:35 we have a lot of food at the beach.
06:38 Not only food, like you can buy
06:41 almost everything at the beach.
06:44 I'd never heard of a person
06:46 that didn't feel welcomed in Brazil.
06:50 We really offer like our best,
06:52 but also it's not that hard to get on our bad side.
06:56 One thing you should not do
06:59 is mention how dangerous you think it is.
07:05 I feel like every place in the world, it's different.
07:09 And it has like the bad part and the good part.
07:12 It's a safe, really amazing country
07:15 and you're definitely gonna have a great time.
07:18 Just go with an open heart and you'll be fine.
07:21 If you're planning on spending some time in Brazil
07:27 or in Rio, you're gonna hear certain expressions
07:32 you're not gonna understand.
07:33 They're gonna make no sense.
07:35 Like this one, mão de vaca.
07:38 Mão is hand, vaca is cow.
07:41 Cow's hand, it's for a stingy person.
07:44 So, and I guess it's because vacas, they don't have hands.
07:48 So their hands are like, they're closed.
07:51 So they don't let go of the money.
07:53 So this is the regular A, right?
07:56 And if you add a T on top of it,
07:59 it gives you the M sound.
08:02 Make sense?
08:03 Mão.
08:04 Without it, it would be mau.
08:07 With it, it's mão.
08:08 Pisar na bola, to step on the ball.
08:16 It means like when you do something wrong.
08:19 I'm sorry guys, eu pisei na bola.
08:21 Like I, yeah, I was not supposed to do this.
08:24 I really think it's related to soccer
08:26 because we're so obsessed with soccer
08:28 that it's like, oh my gosh, you stepped on the ball.
08:32 You idiot.
08:33 Arrasou.
08:35 Arrasou.
08:36 How do I translate arrasou?
08:41 Arrasou, it's like you nailed it.
08:43 You did it girl.
08:45 Arrasou.
08:46 But arrasar, what is the definition
08:50 of arrasar in Portuguese?
08:52 I don't know.
08:53 You'll have to Google it.
08:54 If you wanna get to know more about Brazil,
09:00 it's important to know the people
09:03 that made Brazilian culture so incredible.
09:07 So I'm gonna introduce you to a few icons.
09:09 Let's start with Anitta.
09:11 Anitta is a Brazilian singer,
09:14 number one on Spotify, blah, blah, blah, all that.
09:18 She sings pop music and a lot of Brazilian funk.
09:23 Brazilian funky, it's different than just funk.
09:28 Brazilian funk is like twerk music.
09:31 It's party music.
09:33 You're gonna go out and you're gonna shake your ass.
09:37 And Anitta is the queen of that.
09:42 In Brazil, Anitta is one icon and her butt, it's another.
09:46 Yeah.
09:47 And she's also one of my friends that I'm really proud of
09:51 and it's really great to see her accomplishing great things
09:55 inside and outside of the country.
09:57 And also, don't even come with the excuse,
10:01 oh, but I don't speak Portuguese.
10:03 She sings in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
10:07 So you have no excuse.
10:09 Come on.
10:13 Don't disappoint me.
10:15 This is Gisele Bündchen.
10:17 That's how we say her name, okay?
10:21 That's how her mom probably says her name.
10:26 Nice as human being, involved with so many good causes,
10:30 like NGOs.
10:31 She's really vocal about everything she believes.
10:34 Probably we've seen her in the Victoria's Secret
10:38 fashion shows and on the cover of every single magazine.
10:42 Okay, this is Brazilian royalty, okay?
10:48 This is Thais Araújo, one of my favorite actors.
10:53 She is married to also one of our greatest actors,
10:57 Lázaro Ramos.
10:58 I would say they're like Beyonce and Jay-Z.
11:02 I grew up doing what Thais does and did for years.
11:07 I did my first soap opera when I was seven.
11:11 Soap operas are huge in Brazil.
11:19 And I think I did like 13, 14 soap operas.
11:22 And yeah, Thais was always an inspiration.
11:25 We used to work at the same company
11:27 that is the biggest TV channel in Brazil
11:30 that is called TV Globo.
11:32 I'm so glad that I got the opportunity to know her.
11:36 I just gotta say that this lady right here,
11:39 this is our Meryl Streep.
11:42 So just do yourself a favor
11:46 and Google Fernanda Montenegro.
11:48 One of the greatest actors in the entire world.
11:53 Oscar nominee, just that.
11:57 'Cause I could talk for hours about her.
12:00 Thank you so much for watching.
12:01 I hope you had as much fun as I did.
12:04 And I hope to see you soon in Brazil.
12:07 Bye.
12:08 (dramatic music)