Northeastern women are affected by cangaço symbolism, says Chandelly Braz

There are questions that, as much as they are just picturesque details, are often approached among famous people. In the case of Chandelly Braz, she lost the bill of the times she was asked about her name. Where do you come from? What it means?

The actress likes to make it clear that, despite what many people believe, it has nothing to do with the almost homonymous mark of chocolate cream, for sale in supermarkets in packaging similar to the yogurts. “When I was born, he didn’t exist yet. My aunt saw that name in a book of people names, it’s French. But dessert only came up a year later,” she tells her F5. Chandelly even sent an email to Nestlé, a dessert manufacturer to try more information about the origin of the name. “They called me and told me. It means chandelier or candle.”

Ready. Curiosity undone, time to approach the subject work with the Pernambuco actress, who now returns to the origins in the “Maria and the Cangaço” series, available on the Disney+streaming platform.

In the story, which addresses the backlands from the feminine point of view, she is Dondon, sister of Cangaceira Maria, who only received the beautiful nickname after her death in 1938 (role of Isis Valverde). Dondon existed in real life, although there is not much information about her – production is based on the book “Maria Bonita: Sex, Violence and Women in Cangaço”, by Adriana Negreiros.

“Some women who went to cangaço were common. Dondon is this country woman who was taking care of the house, her mother, the daughters, the crop. There is a lot of bravery not only who goes, but also who is,” he explains. “She was really persecuted. Anyone who was in the middle of this war also suffered her effects.”

Although born in Minas Gerais, Chandelly considers herself Pernambuco because she went there as a baby. For her, just as cangaço is in the imagination of most Brazilians, due to the historical grandeur and complexity of the movement, the theme has an even greater influence on northeastern women.

“We do not know properly if they were bandits or heroes. Me, my mother, my sisters, all of us, we have been affected by this symbolic dimension of what cangaço represents, much rooted in our culture, northeast culture,” he says. “If you will travel to Paraíba or Pernambuco, you will see these symbols of the cangaço, such as the leather hat, cartridge, themed restaurants.”

The actress has been far from soap operas since 2018, when she did “pride and passion”. She says she received the invitation to act in a production that would start months later, but refused for a short time. Then came the pandemic, which distanced it even more from the extensive works.

In your words, life was happening. “I managed to make cinema, work with directors I admire, understand new languages, do other things.”

After years on television, however, she still has not been used to the public of her personal life. The repercussions of the end of his ten -year marriage to Humberto Carrão in 2022 and the photos kissed with also actress Alice Carvalho still bother her.

“My intimate life doesn’t concern anyone. At the same time, I don’t need to hide anything from anyone. That nonsense to someone’s personal life becoming a story, you know? The gossip has always existed and everyone is, to some degree, a little gossip. But I don’t try to know, I have a lot to do.”