Cinemaselton Mello returns to the therapy session series: ‘It says a lot about Brazil’

Selton Mello It’s back as Caio Barone in Therapy session. The series of GlobeHe is currently in recordings of his sixth season, scheduled to debut for 2026. In addition to starring, the actor also directs the episodes. Involved with production since 2012, he states that acting is the lightest part of the process (via The globe).

“Acting to me is very simple, it does not require psychologism. There is a huge lightness in the thing. Turning off is also easy, and this has to do with maturity. At 30, you dive and suffer. Today, I enter a deep hole and come back fast. This is time, it’s road.”

During the filming, Selton opposite Grace Passôwho plays Rosa Gabriel, therapist responsible for supervising Caio’s work. The scene in question dealt with the character’s perceptions of a patient.

“Therapy session is a series that already knows what it wants to achieve. It is a mature conception that has chosen to talk to the public about complex subjects. Everything is built about the performance,” explained the actress.

Inspired by the Israeli series Betipultthe Brazilian version is one of the longest in the world, with five seasons launched since 2012 and a protagonist change along the way. “We are the only place in the world where the franchise went so far and still changed a therapist. It says a lot about Brazil. The country of caipirinha, samba, smile, molejo, the beach. Are we that?”Asks Selton, who took the role from the fourth season, replacing Zé Carlos Machado.

Even with intimate structure, with two scene characters and few visual elements, the series is filmed with movie language.

“Anyone who watches imagines that the series is flowing in a fluid way, with two cameras on and we talk. But it is made as cinema, with many cuts and lens changes. Fluidity I ride my head. It’s cinema, but it’s on TV.”

In this new phase, one of the episodes involves a patient dealing with Alzheimer’s advance in a family member, a theme that Selton lived closely after his mother’s diagnosis, Mello junglewho died in 2024 at the age of 83. “It was quieter than I imagined. I was already well resolved with her loss, the grief.”

He has also spoken openly about being diagnosed with depression and anxiety, as well as psychiatric follow -up.

“I’m introspective. I do therapy, I know. I know when I can slip. I anticipate the symptoms. I can anticipate, organize and eventually medicate myself. It’s important to talk about it as well.”

At another point, the actor revealed that he took some manner of his own therapist to the character – which generated a curious situation. “I imitate some things of him. Like he ends the session, he sighs and says, ‘Let’s go.” But they got it, they asked him to answer Selton Mello. Then he had to change the way to finish the sessions. “

According to the screenwriter JAQUELINE VARGASthe public identification with patients in the series comes from the observation of everyday life. “The writers is a voyeur. A lot comes from my surroundings, my friends, my family. You can always find a tip of iceberg that leads to a universal conflict.”