Drica Moraes talks about Jade Picon in ‘Travessia’: ‘I try not to be prejudiced’

Showing off her red hair, colored to live a character, actress Drica Moraes, 52, continues to “change the shell” to tell new plots and stories. In the movie “As Verdades”, starring Lázaro Ramos, in the cast of the next 9 pm soap opera, “Travessia” (Globo), and still on air in reruns and other productions, she says she is “living a very atypical year” due to the amount of work you are doing.

The dyed hair, which should not remain for much longer, belongs to her character in the series “Os Outros” by Luísa Lima and Lucas Paraizo. The actress says that, in the plot, she plays the manager of the building in which the story takes place. “She IS a solar character, I was missing working on audiovisual with humor,” she says. The project should only be released in 2023 and tells the story of four friends who are reunited at the wake of another member of the group.

“After recording the series, I fell straight into the 9 pm soap opera, which will replace ‘Pantanal’. I’m already getting ready. It’s going to have an accent, I’m going to change my hair”, completes she, who will live a villain with hints of humor and humanity. Her character story will take place in Maranhão, and Drica will be the mother of actor Chay Suede again – before they starred in the feature film “Rasga Coração” (2018).

“I’m meeting actors from the Northeast and Rio that I didn’t know. I’m also at the core with Lucy Alves, whose antagonist I’ll be… in short, soap opera plots”, the artist adds. In addition, she also commented on the soap opera having already been talked about, months before the premiere, for having Jade Picon, 20, in the cast. “I try not to be prejudiced about things at first, until the person proves to me otherwise.”

The actress says that, with the digital revolution that the internet has brought, it is not possible to expect professions to remain the same as they were before. “I’m already a dinosaur. In my time, I had to do theater, have experience on the stage. Today the times are different, you can’t see it with so much prejudice, people can be born a great talent coming from a digital medium”, adds Drica . “The person will have to work. They won’t be able to get away from it.”

In addition to all the projects to come, the actress also celebrates Globo’s soap operas reruns of her “first incarnation”, as she calls her life before facing leukemia. She was on the air with “Chocolate com Pimenta” (2003), “Verdades Secretas” (2015) and “O Cravo e a Rosa” (2000), in addition to being in the new season of “Under Pressure”.

Below, Drica tells more about Mara, her character in “As Verdades”. Read edited excerpts from the interview.

In “As Verdades” you play Mara, a woman with a very heavy baggage. What was it like to bring up these abuses that women suffer on the big screen?

This story shows the heritage we received from a sexist country, based on patriarchy. Women are historically subjected to abuse and violence, and this is very natural. She naturalizes, and that’s terrible about this character.

Seeing this in a movie, it seems that the abuse and violence are more open…

It is painful to see this in 2022, that things have moved forward, but are always involuting. The struggle never ends, as all struggles in an underdeveloped country, as in racism and homophobia, are two steps forward and three steps back. Even more so in a week that we saw the story of an 11-year-old girl raped, without the support of the hospital, the judge or the justice system. A total abandonment. There are thousands of stories, of thousands of women who suffer because this has become natural.

You said in a publication that this film “honors national cinema”. What is it like to produce in this country?

It is an act of resistance. During these years of this government, we witnessed a dismantling of the cultural apparatus. We no longer have the respect, appreciation and understanding that art and culture is something important for the civilizing development of a society. The public needs to help us redeem the right to exercise culture in its fullest form, and they can help us by going to theaters in the first few weeks.

Throughout the conversation, we commented that the cell phone has totally changed the world. I saw recently that you suffered a digital blow. Did the change come to this?

I am a person like any other, I am outraged. Just as this little screen came for the good, it came for the bad too. My own mother fell [em um golpe] and lost a lot of money. The soap opera [‘Travessia’] will talk about that too, about the amount of digital crimes.