1 of 2 Babu Santana with a forked comb in his hair, at the Salvador Summer Festival Photo: Maria Beatriz Pacheco Babu Santana with a forked comb in his hair, at the Salvador Summer Festival Photo: Maria Beatriz Pacheco
Actor Babu Santana is in Salvador to watch the 2024 Summer Festival shows. As a participant in the 22nd edition of Big Brother Brasil, a reality show on TV Globo, he was at the event with a forked comb in his hair, a symbol of the fight against racism, and expressed his support for Davi Brito, a Bahian and black App driver who is part of the cast of the current edition.
Asked whether Davi was a victim of exclusion and racism in the “most guarded house in Brazil,” Babu replied: “There is no need to say anything, many people see what is happening.”
“Even today, few people are willing to speak forcefully about this issue. I like to say a slogan: There is no point in being outraged, because what is happening in the world has always happened. The BBB is a cut, but a section where we can decide the ending. The joy of the game is that we have this hammer of justice in our hands,” he commented.
“We have the hammer of justice in our hands, so let’s step in and give a proper response, you know? This is the movement,” he said, adding that it has been “Team Davi since he was little.”
Salvadoran actor Evaldo Macarrão also attended the event with a forked comb in his hair, a symbol of fighting racism by praising black power. As an interpreter of Jupará in the soap opera Renascer, currently airing on Rede Globo, he said that the accessory is a tool to “demarcate spaces”.
2 of 2 Evaldo Macarrão was at the Salvador Summer Festival Photo: Maria Beatriz Pacheco Evaldo Macarrão was at the Salvador Summer Festival Photo: Maria Beatriz Pacheco
“I had already used it a long time ago, and then I started using it again for style, beauty and much more: as an antiracism tool. Because this is it: Before I arrive in space, unfortunately, my color arrives first,” And as we live in this shameful antiBlack violence, suffering from racism and being attacked, I have to say, “Look, I'm arriving, but “I come with foundation, with strength and with the light of my ancestors, and my philosophy and what I preach is to counteract that with beauty, with pedagogy, perhaps with love,'” he explained.
Macarrão also said that he likes to change his appearance and that preparing for the character he plays in the 9 o'clock series required a new haircut that referenced his ancestry.
“In the adaptation for Ju Pará, the character I play in Renascer, I have shorter hair here on the sides, and then I remembered Pente Garfo, I remembered Babu Santana, my wonderful colleague, and I have it taken over,” he said.
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