The public who go to the cinemas to see “Papai é Pop”, which opens today, will see Paolla Oliveira in a different role than the many muses that the actress has lived on television and in the cinema. In the film, a comedy based on a hit book, she plays a new mom who faces a relationship crisis with the arrival of her daughter. The father is played by Lázaro Ramos.
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Motherhood is a theme in Paolla’s life. In 2020, the actress revealed that she was advised by a doctor to freeze eggs due to the “premature aging” of her body. Today she says yes, being a mother is her horizon, but she will not bow to demands for the “position of a traditional woman”.
“[A maternidade] it’s part of my future. I’m in no way putting myself in the position of a traditional woman, I don’t think there’s even room for that anymore. Whenever I can speak, debate and in some way demonstrate who I am and what I think, I will do it to fight this place or that. I don’t want to be in just one post,” says the actress.
Paolla Oliveira reflects on a shift she’s made in her life as a public figure when she decides to be more open about her current relationship with Sambista Diogo Nogueira. Just as she defends her right to discretion, Paolla wants to be able to speak freely and disclose her private life when it suits her.
Samba musician Diogo Nogueira and actress Paolla Oliveira together in Rio de Janeiro
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“There is no model of perfection, but showing affection is good and it was my option now. I talk a lot about being discreet, but it’s time for us to be proud and show affection, affection, relationships that speak of ease and that place we need,” he says.
Is dad pop?
The new film starring Paola and Lázaro, directed by Caíto Ortiz, is inspired by “O papa é pop”, a 2015 book by writer and narrator Marcos Piangers, which has sold more than 500,000 copies in countries such as Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Spain became England. In it, the Santa Catarina native shares stories about his own experiences with fatherhood and emphasizes the importance of family ties in parenting.
Although the titles of the film and book initially reflect fatherhood, the other side of this equation is not forgotten. As the story begins, it is Paolla’s character who is most devoted to her daughter, giving up her career, friendships and vanities in favor of Laura’s often lonely upbringing.
Lázaro Ramos and Paolla Oliveira filmed the comedy “Papai é Pop” in isolation due to Covid19 protocols
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“Whenever we talk about empowerment, we talk about individual movements. And the film brings relationship empowerment,” explains Piangers. “We have to talk about the father, but to talk about the father we have to talk about the mother. The single mom, the kid, friends, the friend laying that bad pile. This is the communication proposal, looking for happier families, balanced and connected relationships.”
Elisha Lucinda
In addition to husband and wife, a third character is important to the development of the plot: Gladys, the single mother of Lázaro’s character, played by actress and poet Elisa Lucinda, who brings a layer of understanding and comfort to the distraught and lost couple. It was only after the first public screenings of the film and the reactions of audiences and journalists that Paolla realized the importance of the dynamic between the two women.
“We’re just realizing a few things here, including this relationship with the motherinlaw,” he told Splash. “There, Elisha [Lucinda] it’s so present and it was so wonderful. There was a very interesting situation. I’m standing there at the sink washing dishes, disheveled, already tense with the situation,” she recalls of a particular scene in the film where her character is very busy and tired.
“And I looked at Elisa and she said, ‘That’s right, exactly that.’ So I thought: ‘That’s right, the way is right’. That outside complicity and that genius that Elisa is only strengthened that relationship, and I hadn’t even realized it was that important, especially with a film with so many aspects. It is very important to have someone who [personagem] Elisa doesn’t have a mother with her, their relationship lacks exactly what the film suggests.”
The fact that she is not a mother therefore proved to be a positive point in her understanding of the character and her complex situation. “I have very present friends, I have a very present mother. Everyone was with me a bit,” he recalls.