Actress Danni Suzuki, 46, says she was a victim of racism at the beginning of her career. She says she first felt prejudice during her participation in Globo’s Sandy & Junior program in 2002. “My salary was lower than everyone else’s in the cast of Sandy & Junior, because I was Japanese. And they didn’t have the There’s no problem saying that to me”, said the presenter.
She says that she continued to suffer discrimination at the station because of her Asian origin for a long time. “Every time I went to negotiate a salary, they said: ‘Danni, we don’t know when you’re going to work again, your profile isn’t a scheduled profile’. And I never even had a vacation, right?”, he said during an interview with podcast Tá Benito, by the journalist Isabelle Benito.
Danni says the situation was unpleasant and, despite her co-workers’ knowledge, they didn’t realize it was racist. “Everyone knew I earned less, but at the time there wasn’t this story: ‘this is racism'”, said the actress. Today, she says she has a different understanding.
“Women continue to earn less. Now that is changing. In addition to being a woman, I was Japanese… Today I know that this was an issue [racismo]. At the time, imagine! This was absolutely normal. So what was my job? Dig for new jobs that weren’t for Japanese.” F5 He contacted Globo and received no response.
In 2020, Danni spoke publicly about leaving the soap opera “Sol Nascente”, shown between 2016 and 2017 on Globo. The plot received criticism at the time for being centered on an Eastern family, without any actors of Asian descent cast among the protagonists. According to the actress, author Walther Negrão even said that the soap opera had been written for her.
“He called me to talk, he said that 3 or 4 years ago he wanted to write a novel for me”, he said. “He made the story of Japanese and Italians because it’s my story, she was a designer because I did industrial design, she surfed because I surfed. It was all built on top of my real life.”
Despite this, she says she was cast in the production, but ended up being cut shortly afterwards. “I left this soap opera without a justification,” she said. After publishing the text, the broadcaster sent a statement to the F5 stating that he had no knowledge of the actress’ version. “We are unaware of the information provided. The criteria for casting Globo’s works are technical and artistic.”
Source: Folha
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