Gabriel Leone and Flávio Tolezani return for a shorter season, with just five episodes, and talk to ‘Estadão’ about the result and their farewell to the production: ‘Sense of duty accomplished’
“A journey into disability”. Here’s how the actor behaves Flavio Tolezani summarizes the third season of SunBrazilian series on Prime Video which presented its last season on Friday 24. Shorter, with only five chapters, the new series of episodes is characterized by something that had already intensified in the second season: an even greater focus on the relationship. From Pedro (Gabriele Leone) and his father, Victor (Flávio Tolezani).
“In this new season, Victor continues to look for a solution for his son and, for various reasons, this becomes unachievable,” says Flávio. “In the second season, we know that my character has cancer and is physically limited. There is still the distance and the impossibility of finding his son again. All this is completed in the inability.”
Father and son
For those who are new to the world Sun now, the series has always flirted with inability – as well as working with other similar feelings, such as the pain of distance, the complexity of relationships, the difficulty in maintaining a dialogue.
The entire premise of the production, after all, is about the true story of Pedro Machado Lomba Neto, the son of a military police officer who fought drug trafficking, but who ends up entering the world of crime. Father and son are opposites in society, surrounded by this impossibility of contact. The relationship here becomes practically impossible.
In the other two seasons, Sun not only did he address this complexity, but he also narrowed the paths: meetings between Victor and Pedro fade away, the relationship frays, and, in the end, everything that is solid crumbles into nothingness.
“It’s a countdown that we started from the beginning of the series,” says Gabriel Leone Estadao. “It’s a tragedy from the beginning and the last season has the character of a conclusion. As cliché as it may be, it is the result of this tragedy, with pressures coming from all sides and no escape.”
Despite this, Flávio and Gabriel agree that it is now, in these five episodes of the final season, that the relationship between father and son becomes more dramatic. “Every meeting they had was so rare and so full of barriers that it became a meeting that could always be the last,” summarizes Gabriel.
For Flávio, the big difference between the beginning of the story and now is that Victor has less agency. “The son is no longer a child. If he thought he could impose himself as a father, he realizes that he can no longer do it”, he explains.
Goodbye
It’s interesting to see how things have changed from the first season premiering on the streaming service in 2021 to now. Not only on a production level, with the death of the creator Breno Silveira, but also for the work of the actors involved: Gabriel Leone, the protagonist, began to embark on an international career, with Ferraria Michael Mann film that premiered in Brazil earlier this year and is soon to be released Seine.
What is it like for him to see such a series Sunwhich was part of the beginning of the internationalization of your career, has it come to an end?
“It was the first time I revisited a character. The experience of pausing a story and then finishing it,” he says. “It’s been a very rich process for me as an actor. But, above all, I think I get to the end with Sun. Let’s tell the story that Breno always wanted to tell.”
Flávio also recalls that the idea was always, from the beginning of production, to make this story in three seasons – and that from the beginning they said goodbye to their characters. “It seems short, but it’s a very long time in our life. It’s almost five years. It’s a very long time,” he says. “It’s nice to be able to revisit and return to our work as we mature together with our characters somewhere here.”
Source: Terra
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