‘What is Xou da Xuxa?’: The screenwriter reveals the origin of the meme and explains why he didn’t want to locate the girl

‘What is Xou da Xuxa?’: The screenwriter reveals the origin of the meme and explains why he didn’t want to locate the girl


The excerpt was part of a never-before-broadcast news recording.




The documentary Forever Paquita It premiered this week Globalplay and it is already having repercussions on the networks. In the first episode, the testimony of an outraged child went viral. In an interview, Paulo Mario Martins, the project’s screenwriter, spoke about the origin of the meme and why he did not want to locate the child.

The scenes feature an angry girl, screaming while giving an interview to the news agency. Globe. The reason for his anger is that he found a place to watch his son’s birthday program. Xou from Xuxain 1988. At the time, the attraction was two years old and many fans were attracted to the studios, a queue formed, but not everyone managed to get in, which ended up generating a popular uproar.

“This material was never broadcast. It was a brutal tape. That’s why nobody had a recording. The journalist was doing ‘people talk’ [jargão jornalístico para entrevista com civis]. So there is no identification of the girl in the picture. It was the second anniversary of the Xuxalive. There were a lot of people at the door trying to get in and a huge queue formed. They put a television outside on the sidewalk so people could watch from the street. THE Globe he did this. There is a moment when the Xuxa leaves the Phoenix Theatre [na Zona Sul do Rio, onde era programa feito] and climbs into the back of a security guard to talk to fans. The news has been broadcast, but the baby has only just come into the world,” the screenwriter said in a conversation with journalist Anna Luiza Santiago of the newspaper O Globo.

In recent days the phrase What Xou da Xuxa is this? took over social media. The backlash was something the producers had in mind when they decided to include the song in the final project. According to Paulo, every time the song was shown on the cutting table, the professionals present had a good laugh.

Despite the high potential of the segment, it was never the intention of the management or the producers to single out that girl.

“We had a very specific cut of the Paquita. His story was with Xuxa strictly speaking. We’ve already dealt with so many people… It would open a hole in the script and take our attention away a little bit. At the same time, we were sure that as soon as it went viral, someone would find a girlfriend. It was great, it created a lot of buzz. I can’t wait to meet the mini muse.”

How is the girl in the meme “what is Xou da Xuxa”?



Patrícia Veloso claims to be the girlfriend of

With the high repercussion of the excerpt on social media, many fans, including himself June Andradehusband of Xuxathey started wondering where that girl was. “Where are you?” wrote the singer. “Wanted,” joked the actor Dudu Azevedo.

Among the many people who assumed the girl’s identity, the one who gained the most prominence was the teacher Patrícia Veloso Martins who, in TikTokhe said he was only 9 years old at the time of the case. “It’s me… I really loved him XuxaIt was my dream to go to his show and receive a hug.

The video quickly caught the attention of many people. The reason is unknown, but Patricia chose to exclude it. Shortly after, Patricia’s sister, Renata Amorim, used the same app to confirm that the video was of her sister. “My sister has gone viral. Look at the photo of her with the same clothes and the same bow on her head,” the relative wrote in the caption of one video.

In response to questions, she did not explain why Patrícia deleted the content in which she assumes the identity of the meme, but revealed that her sister will make a full video on the subject.

After claiming to be the girl from ‘what Xou da Xuxa is this?’Patricia has gained thousands of followers. Only in TikTok the number exceeds 17 thousand.

Source: Terra

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