Miss Brazil 2020, Julia Gama criticizes repression in pageants and acts in Mexican series

Miss Brazil 2020 winner and Miss Universe runner-up, Julia Gama, 30, went through a strange situation to say the least, in 2021, when she was not invited to pass the crown on to her successor. She believes that the organizers’ attitude was a retaliation for her anti-Bolsonarist stance. “They don’t want Miss to have an opinion, is that it? I get indignant when they say ‘silent you look prettier’.”

Julia has never shut up and continues to blow the whistle when she feels like it. She considers, for example, that in Brazil spectators and the market have a limited view of what the pageant means: “There is a misinterpretation by people who consider the Misses only beautiful and frivolous”.

For her, the social work and intellectual skills of the candidates are in the background, to the detriment of “a cutout of a parade of beautiful women”. Julia is increasingly distant from this universe and is now dedicated to acting, with works in the United States and Mexico. In September, she acts for the second time in the series “Amores Que Enganam”, on the pay channel Lifetime.

The series, produced and starring Latin American women, tells, in each episode, stories of heartbreak. In “Mama’s Favorite,” Julia plays a wife who leaves her manipulative husband. She was selected by the channel as the new Brazilian representative in the production (in the first season, Sophia Abrahão and Duda Nagle played the main roles).

Despite her critical attitude towards the gear that moves the Miss pageants, Julia knows that going through them was important to get work as an actress. “It was a platform to open the doors I wanted in the acting and performing market,” she says.

While waiting for her debut in the Lifetime series, she participates in Los 50, a kind of BBB of the American broadcaster Telemundo, recorded in the United States. In reality, 50 participants live together for ten weeks and compete for the prize of US$ 350,000 (about R$ 1.75 million), without live viewing.

Between October and November, Julia will participate as a commentator in international events exhibited on the same station, but what she really wants is to return to Brazil to act. “I’m just waiting for a cool role to go, it’s going to be my big dream come true.”

The episode “O Preferido da Mamãe”, from “Amores Que Enganam” airs this Wednesday (6), at 9 pm, on the Lifetime pay channel.