Season 1 • Episode 138
LatestTancinha is a charming fruit seller known for her hot temper who gets torn between an explosive relationship with passionate truck driver Apolo, her neighbour and childhood sweetheart, and an irresistible attraction for Beto, a lady-killer who will not take no for an answer. The girl ends up being caught up in a family feud over the disappearance of her father whom she believed to be dead. Tancinha will leave a path of turmoil along her way to unveil this mystery.
Acting
Mariana Ximenes commits to full-volume melodrama with zero shame.
Writing
Daniel Ortiz's rewrite packs three soap tropes into every scene.
Costume
Tancinha's fruit-stand-to-glamour wardrobe arc deserves awards.
Creator
Daniel Ortiz
Mariana Ximenes
Constância Rigoni Di Marino (Tancinha)
Malvino Salvador
Apolo dos Santos Menezes
João Baldasserini
Roberto Velásquez (Beto)
Jayme Matarazzo
Giovanni Rigoni Di Marino
Agatha Moreira
Camila Abdala Varella
Fernanda Vasconcellos
Bruna Ferraz Vidal
Tatá Werneck
Fedora Abdala Varella Almaci (Fefê)
Gabriel Godoy
Leonardo Raposo (Raposão) / Leonardo Almaci (Leozinho)
Cleo
Tamara Velásquez
Marisa Orth
Francesca Rigoni Di Marino
Grace Gianoukas
Teodora Abdala Varella
Alexandre Borges
Aparício Varella
Malu Mader
Rebeca Rocha De La Fuente
Carolina Ferraz
Penélope Velásquez
Ellen Rocche
Leonora Lammar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a remake of Venezuelan telenovela 'Mi Gorda Bella' (2002), but Ortiz relocated the class tensions to Brazilian truck-stop culture.
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