Ana de Santana talks about her acting debut in Globoplay and Juliana’s dilemmas in Vermelho Sangue

Originally from Minas Gerais and with an international career in fashion, Ana de Santana comments on her dramaturgical experience and the conflicts of her character

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Starting out as an actress in a national production is already a challenge. Doing this while playing a character full of contradictions, silences and morally questionable choices makes the mission even more complex. This is exactly the case Ana Santanawho takes his first professional steps by playing in the series Blood redavailable on Globoplay since October 2.

In the plot the actress plays Juliennea young man who is part of the group that upsets Flora (Alanis Guillen), her former best friend. Daughter of delegate Edgar (Che Moaïs) and student at the city’s Institute of Biology, Juliana appears as a person prisoner of the norms and prejudices inherited from her own environment, a character constructed much more between the lines than in direct confrontations.

Who is Ana de Santana

At 28 years old, the Minas Gerais native from Uberlândia brings an international background even before her debut in dramaturgy. Ana began working as a model at the age of 17 and has built a strong career outside of Brazil, with stints in France, Germany, Italy and England. Throughout this period he posed for publications such as Vogue Italy and has worked with prestigious brands including Prada, Armani, Versace, Lacoste, Harrods and Avon.

Alongside fashion, the artist is involved in artistic training. Currently it continues to be improved and was recently approved at the Kingdom Drama School, in London, an institution known for training important names in British audiovisual.

Juliana and the prejudices that go unspoken

For Ana, playing Juliana required a deep dive into the character’s social context. “It carries a large part of what it has absorbed from the environment around it, often without realizing it”explain. According to the actress, the work was about understanding a “social unconscious” that shapes attitudes, fears and judgments.

In the relationship with Flora, the choice fell on restraint. “I tried to work a lot on silence, on looks, on what is not said. A lot of what Juliana feels manifests itself in small attitudes, in nuances that reveal the fear of losing one’s position or exposing oneself”he declares.

The challenge of living with someone who bullies

Inserted into a group that mocks and practices harassment, Juliana imposes an emotional challenge on the performer. Ana admits that it wasn’t easy to create empathy for someone who hurts another. “It’s not easy to put yourself in the shoes of someone who chooses to do harm, even if they do it out of self-defense or insecurity.”he said.

The connection came from personal memories. “I went back to my teenage experiences, when I didn’t feel like I belonged or under pressure to belong”remembers. The actress also reveals that she was previously bullied on the other side of the story, which made the process even more intense. “It was difficult and at the same time therapeutic to try to understand the minds of those who do this”he admits.

Internal conflicts and acting on the subtleties

Throughout the series, Juliana faces ethical and social dilemmas that demand more from the actress than fidelity to the text. “Some scenes required more than repeated lines”Ana said.

To translate the character’s internal conflicts, she relies on almost invisible resources. “I tried to convey something subtle, almost invisible, with small gestures, breaths and looks, without having to verbalize it”explain. “The idea was to let the audience feel the conflict before it even becomes explicit.”

Behind the scenes and connections created on set

The behind-the-scenes experience also marked Ana de Santana’s debut. She describes the cast as a real family and cherishes the recordings at Serra da Canastra, where part of the series was filmed.

“We stayed in town and experienced the reality of the countryside together. It was like we were really living the story, having a beer in the little square after filming”he remembers with a laugh.

Among the links created, one name became special. “Lucas Leto was a huge gift. In my first job, with all the insecurities at the beginning, he made me feel very calm and confident, with a sense of humor that only he has”strong points.

With Blood redAna de Santana officially makes her debut in dramaturgy, already demonstrating a performance guided by listening, subtlety and emotional complexity, marks of someone who arrives ready to go beyond the obvious.