Drica Moraes's second antagonistic role as a woman obsessed by a man with an Excellency title in a series dealing with diamond extraction, after Xica da Silva (1996).
Several love scenes between gay characters Claudio and Leonardo, as well as between main character José Alfredo and Ísis were filmed but ordered by Rede Globo to be cut, unsatisfying Aguinaldo Silva.
Suffering of both labyrinthitis and pharyngitis, Drica Moraes had to abruptly leave the series, being replaced by Marjorie Estiano (her younger counterpart), who played the younger version of the same character in early episodes.
For Drica Moraes's replacement, Aguinaldo Silva required to magic realism, which was a trademark aspect of his series up until A Indomada (1997).
Aguinaldo Silva promised the storyline would not "suffer" the amount of character pregnancies often featured in Brazilian/Latin-American telenovelas.