Sao Paulo
Keanu Reeves knelt to acknowledge receipt. Paul Rudd said it was the best he’s ever had. Hugh Grant, on the other hand, was surprised that even with so much noise, he had a child sleeping in front of the stage.
Almost everything was a reason for many screams and enthusiastic applause from the fans during the panels of the Comic Con Experience 2022, the pop culture fair that ended this Sunday (4) at the São Paulo Expo in the south of the capital. It’s the world’s largest event of its kind numbers surpassing the traditional San Diego Comic Con, which inspired CCXP, as it’s also known.
The public was excited about the return of the trade fair, which has not been held in person since 2019. In 2020 it was canceled due to the corona pandemic and only took place virtually in the following two years.
So much so that the Brazilian audience was “the best”, “the most excited” or the “noisiest” for almost everyone who entered the Thunder Stage, the main stage of the event. “It’s very loving, I don’t know what to do,” admitted actress Bella Ramsay, best known for her role as the noble Lyanna Mormont on Game of Thrones. She was at the show with Pedro Pascal to promote the series The Last of Us, which premieres on HBO Max in 2023.
Jenna Ortega, the protagonist of “Wandinha,” a series that recently became the mostwatched Englishlanguage series on Netflix of all time, used some of her character’s scathing humor to talk about the exuberant nature of those they’ve found here . “I think, you [Wandinha] she would be overwhelmed,” he judged in a good mood. “She would be irritated, people touch each other too much.”
During the panel, she even accepted the challenge of answering an entire question without blinking, which is characteristic of her character. Eyes filled with tears, but the most important thing was to please the fans, who of course freaked out.
Like Avatar’s Zoe Saldaña praising our team’s performance in the cup. And when Ismael Cruz Córdova, the first dark elf in The Lord of the Rings universe, spent his Portuguese reading a message in his own handwriting about the love he had received from the Brazilians. By the way, almost all foreign actors risked at least a “thank you” or “hello” to hug the fans.
However, to experience such moments, it was not enough to have bought a ticket to the event. Those who weren’t invited into the studios had to deal with a queue that stretched for hours. To secure a spot, just get up early.
And yet it was possible to miss the desired attraction. On Saturday (3rd), the fans speculated about a “moment of surprise” that had no further details in the schedule. The poster for the film “Besouro Azul” by DC Comics, in which the Brazilian Bruna Marquezine plays, is well done. She and the protagonist Xolo Maridueña were present.
“There was a different butterfly feeling in my stomach, the feeling that somehow I’m part of this universe now [nerd]’ commented the actress during Unlock, a business event with programming parallel to the CCXP. “I think the premiere must be a national holiday [do filme]nobody thinks about getting sick or being born that day (laughs).”
Those who didn’t want to see the actors in person could walk around the pavilion, where studios and streaming platforms competed for the attention of passersby with experiences, instagrammable spaces and giveaways.
For example, it was possible to cross a glass bridge at the Netflix booth, as seen in the Korean series Round 6; pretending to be a doll and posing in a giant Barbie box in the Warner Room; or aboard a replica of the boat that would take Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) to Vallinor in Amazon Prime’s Rings of Power.
It was really difficult to be able to visit many of these attractions as you had to wait your turn for each one or if you were lucky you had to schedule a time via certain treatments. Even when shopping in some of the stores that sold licensed products, access was controlled.
Nothing, however, compared to the difficulty of getting to and from the event, which resulted in a knot in the roads near the exit of the Imigrantes highway leading to the event pavilion. On Saturday you had to wait up to 2 hours to get an app car in the region.