Luciana Vendramini recalls sex symbol label and vents on lack of TV invitations

After six years away from television drama, Luciana Vendramini is back in the spotlight. The actress, who marked an epoch in the 1990s as a sex symbol, now debuts in the independent series “I don’t usually fall in love with the phone,” available on YouTube.

The plot came from a historical moment starring Luciana in “Love and Revolution” (2011), from SBT. His character, Marcela, was the first to give a homosexual kiss in soap operas. One fan who discovered a lesbian just as he watched the scene is the one who created the production, based on his own experience.

In an interview with F5Luciana talks about the new project, the challenges of continuing working on TV, the confusion involving being a paquita and remembers how she dealt with past labels and hurts. “It was a learning that brought me maturity and traquejo to take anything in the letter of life,” he says.

She also comments on the shortage of invitations to work on TV. “I think in Brazil the wheel spins a lot still on top of ‘who has a friend, has everything,'” he says as he referred to the pans formed by authors, actors and cast producers. Your dream is to make a “very villain villain”. Check out the interview below.

Luciana, her last television drama work was in “Mirror of Life” six years ago, and now you come back in a series, “I don’t usually fall in love with the phone”, which was inspired by your character Marcela of “Love and Revolution” by SBT. How is it?

So it is. Marcela was the first character to star in a homosexual kiss with Marina, played by Giselle Tigre. A kiss that aired without cuts in the plot of Tiago Santiago. And that impacted a teenager so much at the time that she decided to write, produce and direct a story about love between two women years later. This girl, with an evangelical family and resident of the suburb of the river, is Eve Cosendey. When I knew all this, that she had discovered lesbian because of our kiss, there was no denying the proposal. Giselle and I accepted on time.

Is it a series with several seasons?

I hope yes (laughs). We recorded the first season with six episodes, which are already available on Youtube, and the second season is almost ready. It is the continuation of the meeting in 1994, between Marcela, an assumed lesbian woman, and Marina, straight, who finds herself enjoying another woman after the end of a marriage of years because of her husband’s betrayal. They become friends, and it is through this friendship that love is born.

Do you have sex scenes?

It does not have. It has no erotic appeal to conquer the public. Eve says something very certain: when a lesbian series is directed by men, she is very on top of the fetish. The woman is concerned with telling the involvement, the partnership, the discovery of passion, friendship and, of course, love.

You were one of the sex symbols of the 1990s and surely received many singing from men, proposals and invitations … and women?

Look, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, everything was very hidden. Much repression, judgments, and it was not common for you to see lesbian or gay couples. I noticed some sung, but it was such a distant thing from my world that I soon thought I was imagining things. I was from Jaú, inland São Paulo, not a cool young woman. In fact, I had no perception of a lesbian girl.

But have you ever had a lesbian relationship?

No. I never had. I talk to many fans, who say that after age 40, 50, women want to venture or experience other types of relationships. I have no attraction for a woman, I never had. In fact, I think I’m a woman linked to a man too much.

Why are you not called to make soap operas? Do your fans charge you more work on TV?

Good question … Not discharging the friendships that the person builds throughout his lifetime or the patotas and gangs, but I think in Brazil the wheel spins a lot on “who has a friend, has everything”. It is difficult to pierce the bubbles, especially when you have a monopoly of three broadcasters. Authors choose the actors with whom they want to work, directors have their preferences. Is it boring? Yeah, but that’s what happens. Fact. I don’t give up.

As like this?

I am not ashamed to call cast producers and authors. I ask to do tests, I see no problem. I call, but I’m not called – and it’s okay. But there are people who don’t pass contacts, and that’s another battle to get a phone number. Another way is to send messages through social networks. I send. Some answer, some do not.

Isn’t you angry to see an actress playing a character that you are sure would do better?

Oh yes. But it passes. Vibro with the villains.

Have you never made a villain?

Never. I believe they never called me to make a villain because I am part of the standard. We are standardized like the cute blonde, the little row, the girlfriend, understand? Hardly a blonde plays a villain. You can repair.

Thinks that the title of sex symbol disturbed you more than it helped in career?

I have no idea (laughs) … When I started my career, I was 17 and didn’t even know what was sexual symbol. I thought I had to do with sex, with a person who had sex nonstop. I was: “Guys, I’m still a virgin …”. Anyway. I was here in Rio alone because my parents were there in Jaú, I had no advice and went to research to get an idea of what people said and thought of me. I was thrown into the Leu and ended up entering the play. I have been therapy for 20 years and to this day is a question in my life.

Were you upset that you were left out of the documentary forever paquitas?

In fact, I didn’t want to participate in the documentary because each one has their version, isn’t it? And I have my side, my experience. He was directed by Ana Paula Guimarães, who is a dear, and it was the girl who entered my place. I thought it was going to be biased and I don’t have the slightest interest in repeating this story.

Why?

It was all very difficult for me. I received an invitation to work with Xuxa, I was thrown there at the Phoenix Theater and, at one time, spoke in a competition, a contest. Only no one signed up there. Suddenly Ana Paula won and was taken. I was changed and taken to the bus station. Bye and a kiss. This is what happened.

Sorrows with the paquitas, Marlene Mattos or Xuxa Meneghel?

No. None. I respect all the girls because it was not an easy life. I met Marlene a while ago and she still joked that I was her favorite paquita. Xuxa never saw, but it’s all right. I’m not that 17 -year -old girl who didn’t know how to defend herself. It was a learning that brought me maturity and traquejo to take anything in the letter of life.

Finally, did you regret having posed naked or not?

No. I regret not being a carioca girl swing, good blood. I wish I had that freedom that the girls in Rio had at 18. I went to the beach and the way of small, beautiful bikinis, and me in a swimsuit (laughs). I posed very young and, of course, it was difficult to deal with the exhibition, the repercussion of the following years. But, I don’t regret it.