Terra e Paixão

Terra e Paixão (English title: Land of Desire) is a Brazilian telenovela created by Walcyr Carrasco. It premiered on TV Globo on 8 May 2023. The series stars Bárbara Reis, Cauã Reymond, Glória Pires, Tony Ramos, Paulo Lessa, Agatha Moreira and Johnny Massaro.
Cast
Cauã Reymond as Caio Meirelles La Selva
Bárbara Reis as Aline Barroso Machado
Johnny Massaro as Daniel La Selva
Paulo Lessa as Jonatas dos Santos
Débora Falabella as Lucinda do Carmo Amorim
Agatha Moreira as Graça Borghin Junqueira
Tony Ramos as Antônio La Selva
Glória Pires as Irene Pinheiro La Selva
Eliane Giardini as Agatha Santini La Selva
Tatá Werneck as Anely do Carmo / Rainha Delícia
Rainer Cadete as Luigi San Marco
Débora Ozório as Petra La Selva
Ângelo Antônio as Raul Andrade Amorim (Andrade)
Leandro Lima as Delegado Marino Guerra
Jonathan Azevedo as Odilon Tavares
Leona Cavalli as Gladys Borghin Junqueira
Cláudio Gabriel as Tadeu Junqueira
Thati Lopes as Berenice Aureliana (Berê)
Alexandra Richter as Berenice Ferreira (Nice)
Maicon Rodrigues as Rodrigo
Charles Fricks as Ademir La Selva
Tatiana Tiburcio as Jussara Barroso Machado
Camilla Damião as Menah dos Santos
Flávio Bauraqui as Gentil dos Santos
Igor Angelkorte as Dr. Henrique Sampaio
Gil Coelho as César Verdelho
Suyane Moreira as Iraê Guató
Renata Gaspar as Mara Mamberti
Inez Viana as Angelina Assunção
Jeniffer Dias as Victória Castro
Kizi Vaz as Nina
Valéria Barcellos as Luana Shine
Bruna Aiiso as Dr. Laurita Corrêa
Daniel Munduruku as Xamã Jurecê Guató
Mapu Huni Kui as Raoni Guató
Lourinelson Vladimir as Elias Mamberti
Amaury Lorenzo as Ramiro Neves
Diego Martins as Kelvin
Tairone Vale as Ruan Alves
Natascha Stransky as Silvia
Rafaela Cocal as Yandara Guató
Márcio Tadeu as Juvenal Mourão
Natalia Dal Molin as Graciara
Letícia Laranja as Flor da Conceição
Paulo Roque as Sidney
Samir Murad as Pablo Ozen
Rafael Gualandi as Enzo
Edvana Carvalho as Lúcia
Merícia Cassiano as Iná
Ignácio Luz as Fernando "Nando"
Matheus Assis as João Barroso Machado
Felipe Melquiades as Cristian Kuerton Andrade
Maria Carolina Basilio as Rosa
Izabela Cardin as Melina Gonzales
Susana Vieira as Cândida Rossini
Production
Development
In December 2021, it was announced that Walcyr Carrasco was developing a new telenovela for TV Globo. The telenovela would have the title Terra Vermelha (Red Earth), however, because the name already belongs to a book with the same name by writer Domingos Pellegrini, the title was discarded. In addition, the network feared that the previous title had a political connotation, since the color red in the provisional name of the novel could be associated with the Workers' Party, the party of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In the meantime, some other titles for the telenovela were considered, such as Eu Sou a Terra (I Am the Earth), Terra Mãe (Motherland) and Terra Dourada (Golden Earth). Later, it was titled Terra Bruta (Raw Land), but in February 2023, Globo confirmed Terra e Paixão (Land and Passion) as the new title of the telenovela.
Originally Amora Mautner was announced as director of the telenovela, but exited the project because of her disagreements with Walcyr Carrasco in the second season of Verdades Secretas. Mautner was replaced by Luiz Henrique Rios. Between October and December 2022 during pre-production, Carrasco and Rios visited some locations in Mato Grosso do Sul to define the beginning of the plot's filming location. To advise Walcyr Carrasco on the themes involving native peoples, Globo hired the indigenous writer Daniel Munduruku. After a few months of preparations, workshops and cast meetings at Globo Studios, filming began at the end of January 2023, in the cities of Dourados and Deodápolis, in Mato Grosso do Sul. Part of the cast filmed scenes on farms in the region.
Casting
Because of her performances in the Walcyr Carrasco's previous works, Agatha Moreira was announced in the lead role, but due to a racial representation issue enforced by the network to include black characters in main roles, the actress ended up being reallocated to portray an antagonist in the plot. With the main character's ethnicity defined, Erika Januza and Larissa Nunes were names considered for the role, but Bárbara Reis was cast after Carrasco and director Luiz Henrique Rios saw her performance in Todas as Flores.
Ratings
References
External links
2020s Brazilian television series
2023 Brazilian television series debuts
2023 telenovelas
Portuguese-language telenovelas
Telenovelas by Walcyr Carrasco
TV Globo telenovelas