“Renascer” opens in the first half of 2024, and Globo is rushing to make the final decisions in choosing the cast. With a mandate to give the characters more representation, the channel chose transsexual actress Gabriela Medeiros for her television debut. The 22yearold artist will play Buba, who was played by Maria Luisa Mendonça in the 1993 version.
Information about the casting of Gabriela Medeiros was expected from the newspaper Extra and confirmed by the actress herself on her social networks. Bruno Luperi also follows her on Instagram. Maria Luisa managed to make Buba one of the most memorable characters in history despite his supporting role.
In Renascer, Buba appears in the story after entering into a romantic relationship with José Venâncio (Taumaturgo Ferreira), one of José Inocêncio’s (Antônio Fagundes) sons. The young man seeks solace in another woman during a crisis in his marriage, and the character of Maria Luísa Mendonça enters the scene.
The first night they stay together, he believes Buba is a transvestite and moves away from the girl. However, Playboy discovers that she is actually an intersex person whose body variations deviate from the binary standard.
The character followed a mysterious line and also had a difficult past. She was baptized by her father in the name of a man who, seeing his “son’s” femininity, threw her out of the house because he did not understand her condition.
In 1993, Buba was referred to in the storyline as a hermaphrodite, a term now considered inappropriate to refer to people born with sexual characteristics of the opposite sex the correct option would be to describe her as an intersex or intersex person describe.
Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, including genitals, chromosome patterns, and glands such as testicles and ovaries, that do not conform to typical binary ideas of male or female bodies.