Bianca Bin asked to leave Dona Beja after a mixup with Floresta, the producer of the HBO Max soap opera. The actress demanded the order of the day’s recordings and, faced with the rejections, declared that she would no longer work under these conditions. The argument was so ugly that the interpreter was initially removed from the recordings.
However, the streaming platform is trying to circumvent the situation. Bianca, the antagonist of Grazi Massafera, has already recorded many scenes and her departure would mean wasting more than a month of work. When contacted, HBO Max did not respond TV news.
The confusion behind the scenes of Dona Beja already existed before the recording began. The producer did not provide the protagonists with any casting preparers; they bore these costs. The lyrics will be delivered at the time of recording. It has already happened that the site arrived only two hours before work began.
The contract stipulates a period of 72 hours between the arrival of a new text and recording, which the producer never respects. Under pressure from the cast, the chapters arrived within the set deadline, but always with many lastminute corrections and additions, meaning the actors had to decorate and record without enough time.
There is also a break of 12 hours between one recording day and the next, which is also not observed for the main actors such as Grazi, Bianca and David Junior.
Neglect aside, Brazilian actors don’t like Portuguese director Hugo de Sousa’s way of working. Because they were used to being able to shoot the same scene more than once from different takes, the cast complained greatly that Hugo shot most sequences once and had no chance of reshooting.
Sources from TV news They explained that Bianca Bin officially remains in the cast of the soap opera and that the producer is doing everything to make her reverse her decision.
Since the producer did not stick to the contractual agreements, Sergio Guizé’s wife did not have to pay the termination penalty and could still sue Floresta and HBO.
Written by Daniel Berlinsky and António Barreira, the production is based on the synopsis developed by Renata Jhin and António Barreira in a reinterpretation of the original work by Wilson Aguiar Filho.
The production will consist of 40 chapters and will be recorded at the Polo Rio Cine Vídeo, one of the most important film production centers in the country. It tells the story of Ana Jacinta, who after a heartbreak opens a brothel and becomes a famous courtesan in Araxá, Minas Gerais. Maitê Proença was the protagonist in the version originally shown in 1986 on the now defunct TV Manchete (19831999).
The platform has not yet decided how it will make the soap opera available, but the idea is that the chapters will be around 40 minutes long each, following the pattern of Todas as Flores on Globoplay with five episodes per week. However, nothing is certain yet: the strategy will depend on the performance of Beleza Fatal, HBO Max’s first soap opera, which will premiere before Dona Beja.