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00:00 I just wanted to say that I love movies.
00:02 And we love you!
00:04 I'm done.
00:08 30 episodes ready.
00:10 So you're already at the end.
00:12 Lauro Valente!
00:15 It's part of the destiny of the soap opera of my life.
00:18 This bastard stole my soap opera.
00:21 No!
00:23 Well, I wanted to ask you all first.
00:33 Why talk about soap operas, which is already a consagrated audiovisual product in Brazil, but in series format?
00:38 The authors found a very original way to talk about soap operas in series.
00:44 Series always seek to talk and increasingly, streaming seeks to talk to the audience and attract the audience.
00:52 So we always need to have subjects that interest us.
00:56 And what interests the Brazilian? The soap opera.
00:58 So I think it's not the case to make soap operas on streaming, but to think about the soap opera on streaming.
01:05 And this is a fun, Brazilian way and smart way to think about the soap opera.
01:11 Mônica, your character Isabel is a professional at the beginning of her career, focused on chasing her dream.
01:17 Do you believe that Isabel's story is related to your own career?
01:21 Wow, I've never looked around, Giovana.
01:23 I think so.
01:24 Just like me, being an actress, I wanted to go to the theater school, always wanted to be an actress.
01:29 And in the case of Isabel, I always wanted to be a screenwriter.
01:32 Working with culture in general is very difficult.
01:35 And I think working on audiovisual is very, very difficult.
01:40 Maybe more difficult than in other areas of culture.
01:43 I think Isabel's satisfaction when she has that first meeting with Lauro,
01:48 who is the idol of her life, who is giving her that opportunity.
01:52 I can keep the wrong proposals, but I think I can make a parallel
01:58 of when I was invited to do my first soap opera.
02:00 You're going to be there, you're going to break what seemed so distant.
02:04 Suddenly you're there in front of someone you admire and say, "Come on, it's going to happen."
02:09 So this battle, this dream place is realized, and I think it dialogues a lot with me.
02:14 I think she's really an enviable heroine, because I think most women
02:19 will identify with this woman, you know?
02:23 And it will really make her life a reality,
02:27 the things she believes in and that she seeks a reality.
02:30 So I think she has a direct identification with women,
02:35 and of course, with all the spectators, but she makes me very proud,
02:39 because she falls in, Isabel.
02:42 We are both women directing a series.
02:45 So we saw ourselves very contemplated, right?
02:51 With the representation of Isabel in Mônica e Osi,
02:56 who is also a wonderful woman, a superwoman.
03:00 [Music]
03:05 What is this joke?
03:07 I did this scene!
03:08 What am I doing in the novel by Lauro?
03:11 Miguel, what did you bring from your own career as a novelist to compose the character Lauro?
03:17 I didn't have to compose much, because I think that Lauro has a lot of me.
03:22 Obviously, I never stole anything from anyone, nor am I a bad person,
03:26 but I think this vanity of the owner of that universe,
03:33 every novelist has a little.
03:35 I've lived that scene of launching the novel, going on stage,
03:40 and being adored by the actors,
03:43 because you, in a way, can provide work,
03:47 and people in this country need to work.
03:49 I don't even stop working for that, to be able to provide work for my friends,
03:54 because I get desperate to see my jobless phalanx,
03:58 so I keep inventing work to employ everyone.
04:02 So I think the author has that.
04:05 And Lauro is wonderful, because besides being a villain,
04:09 he is the central character, who is a villain.
04:13 And Isabel is not a typical girl, right?
04:17 She is modern, she is crazy, she has that man that she has sex with,
04:22 and she is not in the mood to continue,
04:24 but she will meet him again in the fictional universe.
04:28 So all of this really seduced me in the project.
04:31 And I always thought that, since the moment I read,
04:35 and Gigi and Renata also agreed and directed me in that sense,
04:40 to give, to give reality to this man,
04:44 because without reality, the story would not be told.
04:47 Do you believe that streaming can be a prosperous field for novels,
04:51 which are already a national passion, to continue being part of the lives of Brazilians?
04:55 A lot of novels are already being produced on streaming,
04:59 I think there are many challenges,
05:02 but I'm sure streaming is a fertile ground for audiovisual in general.
05:08 Giovanna, I think we are very happy with so many productions
05:13 being contemplated by streaming,
05:16 by people who come from independent cinema, right?
05:19 I think we are very proud of this entry, of streaming,
05:24 contemplating so many cool projects.
05:27 Well, guys, to close a question for all of you,
05:29 if you could choose only one iconic character from Brazilian soap operas,
05:33 to interpret, who would you choose?
05:35 I would have done Dete Reus.
05:38 Rodorico Paraguaçu.
05:40 I wanted to live in Rio de Janeiro, there, in the 70s, you know?
05:43 In the 70s, I could become a character,
05:46 then another one, I would play Tony Abraga, and I would be fine.
05:50 I just wanted to say that I love and love cinema.
05:52 Oh, we love you!
05:54 This is a soap opera, love.
05:57 Everything is possible here, except power.
06:00 But every soap opera that is praised has a happy ending.
06:11 Is everything okay?
06:13 I don't know, I'm not expecting it right.
06:16 (upbeat music)
06:18 (air whooshing)