Paulo Miklos returns to play Adoniran Barbosa in Saudosa Maloca: “We dive deeper into this universe”

Almost ten years after giving life to Adoniran Barbosa in the short Gives License to Count2015, Paulo Miklos returns to play the famous samba singer, musical personality of João Rubinatoin Saudosa Malocawhich is showing in Brazilian cinemas from last Thursday, March 21st.

The musician, actor and former singer of Titans – which ends the reunion tour this Saturday (23) at Lollapalooza Brasil 2024 – spoke with Rolling Stone Brazil and celebrated the opportunity to be able, once again, to bring Adoniran Barbosa to life, in a performance praised by friends and acquaintances of the samba singer, who died in 1982:

“I was very happy with the invitation. And I wondered if I was going to be able to handle it, if it was really going to work, because this character from Adoniran Barbosawhich the João Rubinato created, he is such a strong character, so present in the memory of the people, of Brazilians. He himself is a character, who seems to resist time, with the little hat, the bow tie, that little mustache…”declared Miklos.

Saudosa Maloca show Adorinan Barbosain his final years of life, reliving the stories he lived with his friends, Mato Grosso (Gero Camilo, Mussum: The Filmis) It is Joca (Gustavo Machado, Most beautiful thing), for a São Paulo that no longer exists, swallowed by the voracious appetite of the ‘pogréssio’, but recorded in the artist’s songs. As the film is not a biography, the actor had more freedom when it came to creating his own version of Adoniran:

“It was a great dive. It was trying to get into the essence, the atmosphere of the Adoniran. Create one Adoniran mine, but without copying mannerisms, without wanting to make a caricature, because it was too big a risk”he explained.

“I had in mind the idea of Adoniranthe songs of Adoniran that I have known since I was a teenager. I always liked Brazilian music and I really liked the Adoniranso this character was already very much alive [em mim]just as I imagine it is alive in people’s heads”, continued Miklos.

The actor also celebrated the feedback positive feedback he has received about his interpretation: “It is with great pleasure that I now hear people say, ‘You look just like Adoniran!’ That magic happened there. Including, the [músico] Eduardo Gudinwho was one of the partners of the Adonirana friend from a bar who knew him well, told me: ‘I felt the old man’s presence!’, which made me very happy”said.

Miklos also said that the opportunity to expand the work initially presented in the 2015 short, allowed both the actor and the director of the works, Pedro Soffer Serranocould delve even deeper into the universe of Adoniran Barbosa:

“In truth, [o curta] it was a great rehearsal. We made some good discoveries in the short film. Improvisation, everything that worked well, we brought to the film. Until the Pedro wrote, in the feature script, many of the dialogues that we improvised in the short film”he revealed.

“And the film is an in-depth look at the characters. New characters, from other songs, entered the story. We can delve deeper into this universe of Adoniran in the feature film now than I had done years ago”added the actor.

In addition to Paulo Miklosthe cast of Saudosa Maloca still has Gero Camilo (Mussum: The Filmis), Gustavo Machado (Most beautiful thing), Leilah Moreno (Antonia), Sidney Santiago Kuanza (Rensga Hits!) It is Paulo Tiefenthaler (Nothing Suspicious). Watch the trailer:

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