Almost ten years away from the soap operas, Paula Braun is celebrating her return to television. The actress is in the cast of Cara e Coragem, the next 7 o’clock soap opera set to premiere on May 30 after The More Life, the Better ends.
Paula’s last soap opera work was in 2013, in “Amor à vida”.
During a press conference with part of the cast of “Cara e Coragem,” Paula shared what motivated her to return to television.
“What I can say is we’ve been through so much, two years of a pandemic, I think our class suffered not knowing how it would come back, how it would come back to work, how the soap operas would come back would if the theater would return. so many things…” he said.
“I did this test in October 2020. We were in a place of the pandemic where there was no plan in Brazil that a vaccine was very much hinted at. Then suddenly I’m doing a test in the middle of a change, it was like lightning opening in the sky. It was great to have this opportunity.”
“It is very good to return to acting. And going back to a soap opera, which is an open work, which is a different work rhythm, that I’m still learning how it works, what the relationships are, how fast things are. “, he said. the actress.
During this time, the actress wrote and produced the play Do Size do Mundo, starring her husband Mateus Solano. He also produced and directed the documentary “Ioiô De Iaiá” (2021), which tells the relationship of seven couples for about 50 years.
“It was a wonderful experience coming back [para as novelas]. I’m nervous but very happy.”
In Cara e Coragem, Paula Braun plays Olivia, a dancer and dance company owner who has been in a secret relationship with Joca (Leopoldo Pacheco), the father of her daughter (Lou (Vitória Bohn), for around 20 years). . . ).
“It’s really an incredible character. She has this side of being a strong, happy, optimistic woman, she has her passions, which are wonderful, which are her daughter, the dance school… And she has, like a good character, her weak point, which is Joca.”
“She’s a woman that a lot of people will relate to, mostly because she raised her daughter in a super… combative way.” Joca never adopted his daughter.
“I think this will spark very interesting debates about the identification of many women who have birth certificates for children without the father’s name or with the father’s name and a father that distant. I also think it’s a very beautiful debate about 40something women who, at some point in their lives, resume a dream that I think Olivia has a beautiful twist on.”
2 of 2 Paula Braun — Photo: Reproduction/Instagram
Paula Braun — Photo: Reproduction/Instagram