‘Beyond Illusion’: Duda Brack rejects the villain title and praises Iolanda

If someone asked Duda Brack, 27, which character from the soap opera “Além da Illusion” (Globo) she would like to play among so many girls and villains, the artist guarantees that she would choose the star Iolanda, a role that is already hers and mark her debut as actress. The artist reveals that she was asked to audition for another role, but when she heard about the starlet she sighed and thought, “I wanted to be that one.”

Despite all this desire for the character, Brack states that he kept that desire in his heart until “the universe listened to me and there were changes in the soap opera. Direction, cast… and they sent me to audition for Yolanda. well [a carreira como atriz], with a badass cast, amazing character and a wonderful crew. I am very fulfilled and happy”, she celebrates.

Since Brack’s character appeared in the plot, she has moved the lives of the protagonist couple, Isadora (Larissa Manoela) and Rafael (Rafael Vitti), dividing viewers between those who love Iolanda and those who hate her. This week, the character was once again a subject on social media after the publication of the summary of the serial informing that she will interrupt the couple’s marriage.

“There’s been a lot of nice feedback from people on Twitter and on the streets. Some say that Iolanda needs to leave Campos and others like her. This means that I managed to humanize the character. There was a charisma, I love the negative or positive feedback” , she says proudly.

However, the actress disagrees with people who call her character a villain. She defends that Iolanda is a survivor and that she makes choices to take advantage of situations to her advantage. “For me, the villain of the soap opera is Úrsula [Bárbara Paz], Yolanda is an antagonist. She enters there to counterbalance the couple’s romance, the fairy tale of Isadora and Rafael. She comes to bring the poison, the pepper.”

The actress admits that she identifies in some points with the character, such as the love for art, the desire to shine on stage and the references of the women of the family who, even when they were subjugated to men, encouraged her to be a free, libertarian woman. and independent as your character.

“The whole place of empowerment that I built, of self-confidence, and self-esteem came from women and I bring that to the construction of Yolanda”, says the actress. “But without a doubt she is much bolder and braver than I am, she would never stop a marriage,” she adds.

For Brack, it is a “luxury” to debut in a soap opera opposite Marisa Orth (Margot), who has become a kind of godmother of the character in the serial and the artist in real life. She says that the actress already knew her work as a singer and that, by acting together, they developed a relationship of affection, admiration and exchange that helped a lot on stage. “I learn a lot from Marisa, I have a lot of admiration, I think she’s gigantic.”

On the issue of women’s struggle for rights raised in the plot, the actress believes that there have not been many advances in about 80 years – the soap opera takes place between the 1930s and 1940s. so much equality with the male sex. We have many spaces to conquer and that is what we are working for, as our ancestors already did.”

Parallel to the feuilleton, Brack is preparing to release this month a clip of the re-recording of the song “Man”, composed by Alzira Espíndola and Itamar Assumpção, which features Gabriel Leone acting. The track is part of her second album, “Caco de Vidro”, released in November 2021. In the second semester, the artist also intends to resume the schedule of shows interrupted due to the recordings of the soap opera.

Born in Porto Alegre, the actress became interested in music in her teens and at 15 began to play shows. At 18, she took the entrance exam to the music college in Rio and never returned to her hometown. She says that between 2011 and 2013 she participated in at least ten music festivals and won awards in almost all of them. The money raised from the prizes she used to finance her debut album “É” (2015).

The watershed in his career happened in 2017 when he joined a band, led by musician Charles Gavin, ex-Titãs, who performed and recorded a tribute album to the group Secos & Molhados. She admits that she had a crisis of insecurity in recording the songs of the group, which had her idol Ney Matogrosso as a member, but was reassured after Gavin said that the singer praised her saying that she sings very well.

After that, he invited her to record his second album, “Caco de Vidro”, for his label. Over time, Brack and Ney became friends, celebrated in the feat of “Ouro Lata”, which had arrangements by Baiana System. “He is an idol, but he became my friend, he no longer has that distance”, says the singer, who classifies him as her musical godfather.