Tatiana Tiburcio says she dreams of living as a ‘rich, very rich’ woman: ‘I want challenges’

Tatiana Tiburcio is tired of suffering. At least in fiction.

Currently, she is on the air as the feisty and protective Jussara, mother of the young girl Aline (Barbara Reis) from “Terra e Paixão” (Globo). And, starting this Friday (17), she can also be seen as the nonconformist Rita, who loses her 11-year-old son in an operation carried out in the favela where she lives on Mother’s Day in the series “Amar É para the Strong” (Prime Video).

Even though the lack of work is not a problem currently, Tatiana regrets the lack of diversification of roles for black actors. She states that she dreams of making a station wagon like Teresa Cristina, Christiane Torloni’s character in “Fina Estampa” (Globo, 2011-2012).

“[Quero fazer] a very rich, bad, perverse woman. Preferably very rich, very rich”, she says in an interview with F5. “We have much fewer opportunities than white actors and, as an actress, I crave challenges.”

For her, her character in the series created by Marcelo D2, Malu Miranda, Antonia Pellegrino and Camila Agustini, although also suffering, differs from others she sees out there because of the depth of the plot. “In this series there is a structured family, with their dilemmas being discussed within a humanity, with people who have roots”, she explains.

His complaint, however, is endorsed by fellow cast members in the work, which has a majority of black people in front of the cameras. Mariana Nunes, Breno Ferreira and Maicon Rodrigues were unanimous in hitting this key. Nunes, who is on air as Judite in “Todas As Flores” (Globo), says that her struggle to break these stereotypes in the arts is daily.

“White actresses have a lot more opportunities than Tati and I. Once I was talking to a screenwriter and he said: ‘We like a drama, right?’. Then I thought: ‘Do I like a drama or Could it be that I did it well once and they only see me in this place?'”, he asks.

In “Amar É Para os Fortes”, Tatiana acts alongside her son, João Tiburcio. He plays Sushi, a boy whose death takes his character on a path in search of justice and redemption. Just like Rita in the series, she says that she started having conversations with the boy about racism when he was still very young.

“He was five years old and, one day, we were waiting for an app car on the street and he asked me if he could run a little. He was all excited and, suddenly, he stopped suddenly and walked back slowly. And he said: ‘I saw a boy like me running and two police officers behind, I decided to stop so they wouldn’t confuse me’. So, [essas conversas] They are sad, but necessary.”

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