The Secret Life of Couples

A top model and sex symbol in the 70's/80's, Bruna Lombardi surprised everybody by writing an acclaimed book, "No ritmo dessa festa" and later acting as a woman disguised as a man, in the epic TV series based on 1956 iconic literary romance "Grande Sertäo Veredas" by Guimarães Rosa. Her character Diadorim was a soldier of the rebel band that acted in the dephts of northeast Brazil, who falls in love with the leader Riobaldo, unbeknownst that he is attracted to a woman. With that role she was able to deconstruct her image and reinvent herself as a respected actress and writer.