How was Cuca created? Actress reveals

She will catch you! On May 8, the new season of “The Yellow Picapau”, adaptation of SBT to the Monteiro Lobato“The Yellow Picapau Site”, debuts on the station’s streaming. Signed and produced by Jefferson Candido, The series follows all the classic tales characters back to the site after “Dona Benta buy the highlands with the money she got in the Viscount of Sabugosa. It is in this world of adventures where Emilia, Pedrinho and Nose travel, going through various confusions, but always learning a valuable lesson,” as Sinopsis says.

Among the highlights of the plot, we have the iconic antagonist Cuca, played by the actress Kelly Guidottiknown as characters such as “Sesame Village” and Lilica of “Cocoricó”. With her alligator body and dinosaur syrup, the villain returns to conquer the public with her expressions and spells.

In an exclusive interview for Recreio, Kelly He revealed what it was like to bring life to the emblematic folk character, stating that despite relying on the villain’s past versions, she sought to create her version, with her own laugh and gestures, and tell what the audience can expect for the sequence of “The Yellow Picapau”.

This is because the actress explained that one of the great challenges, at first, to incorporate Cuca was precisely the fantasy of the blonde witch, since she has a phobia of closed places, fear that she claims to be overcome.

With this, the structure of the costume was adapted so that there was the safety for the interpreter.

“The team was very careful with me. Both the body and the head of the character was shaped in my body so that there were no complications in case of any claustrophobia crisis. There were people who helped me remove my head,” he began explaining the actress. “There’s a canvas through the puppet mouth I can take and breathe better, drink water.”

Kelly It also counted on the fact that fantasy was mechatronics, it was necessary to adapt speech, since this is slower to synchronize with the light delay of movements, but the changes were beneficial to bring more characteristics to the character: “I could not speak very fast, because there is no time for the mouth of the mouth. More personality for Cuca. “

She also stressed that because of speech adaptation, interactions with other characters, such as the protagonist Emilia, Viscount, for example, became even more comic, with her mood changes and broken.

Regarding the second season of “The Yellow Picapau”, the actress shared that the audience can expect a “troubled but also well blogged cuca, as she adapted to technology”, making a unique and unpublished feature for antagonist, differentiating from other versions created in times in which social networks were not yet so influenced.

“She has this comic because she has adapted technologies, and she ends up using it in her favor and to promote herself. So the public can expect a more technological cuca, more within the trends, but without losing the essence of having their hands on the crystal ball,” he says.

In another moment, Kelly He reveals that he is anxious for fans to know the character’s cave because she is “beautiful, with many details”, like the objects that complement her personality, and of course, now she takes the stage, singing her rocks.

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It is no secret that Cuca marked the childhood of many Brazilians, and to Kelly, Since the invitation, the beginning of the trajectory has been exciting precisely because it has followed previous editions of the ‘Sítio do Picapau Amarelo’, but there was a fear of acceptance of the public. Still, she said that the nostalgia of playing such a striking character “was an honor.”

Finally, Guidotti He revealed the feeling of being able to mark a new generation with his performance saying, “If I can plant a little seed, a memory, teach something to some child I watched, I already have my life earns.”

The full interview with Kelly Guidotti comes out soon on Recreio’s YouTube. Stay tuned!