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| “ | What are you talking of me? Talk as you please, I don’t give a damn what you think! Bunch of corny suburbans… poor! I want distance from the poor cause poverty’s contagious! | „ |
| ~ Carminha |
Carmen Lúcia Moreira de Souza Araújo, better known by her nickname Carminha ("Little Carmen"), is the main antagonist of the 2012 Brazilian telenovela Avenida Brasil.
She was portrayed by Adriana Esteves, who also played Laureta in O Segundo Sol, young Nazaré Tedesco in Senhora do Destino, and Thelma in Amor de Mãe. She also voiced Scarlet Overkill in the Brazilian version of Minions
Biography[]
Carminha was born in 1969 in Engenho de Dentro, a poor neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. Her parents were Santiago and Virginia. During her childhood, she presented her father killing her mother, and then he sends her to a landfill. There, she meets Max, and they eventually fell in love. At some point in her teenage years, she gets pregnant, and tries to raise her son, Cristiano, with her job as a prostitute, but her financial situation was very difficult so she sends him to a landfill to be taken care by Lucinda and Nilo. After some time, in an attempt of getting a better life, she tries to do a scam.
Now, at the age of 30, Carminha gets married to Genésio, a widower, with a little daughter, convinces him to sell the house they lived, and makes a scheme with the help of Max to steal the money of the house. Rita, who was mistreated by her, but she faked kindness in front of Genésio, finds out about it, and tries to warn Genésio. Even if he trusted his wife, he still finds a way of preventing the robbery, and it works, making him finally believe his daughter. At a final confront with her, she ends up pushing him down the stairs and he gets bewildered, and ends up ran over by a car, and didn't survive, but before he dies, he tries to warn the driver about Carminha. The driver happened to be Tufão, a soccer player on the rise, messes up and thinks Genésio meant he had to take care of Carminha. Carminha finds out about Genésio's death, and where the money was hidden, and after she does, she abandons her stepdaughter Rita in a landfill. In the landfill, she had a short affair with Carminha's son (who was currently called "Batata") Tufão finds her and tries to "take care" for her, and she easily discovers he ran over Genésio, and since he was a soccer player on the rise, she starts seducing him, using her supposed grief on Genésio's death as a weapon, and she eventually marries him, and moves to his mansion. She lives a life of luxury and money and continues to have affairs with Max, who married with Tufão's sister, Ivana, while being constantly pestered by Tufão's loud and obnoxious family members. She gets pregnant (of Max), and "adopts" her son back, not telling that he was actually her biological son, building a family. Her son is renamed once again, into "Jorge", but known better as "Jorginho".
In the meantime, Rita is adopted by an Argentinan family, and is renamed into "Nina". 13 years pass by, and Nina, willing to get revenge on Carminha, goes to Brazil and gets a job as a cook. Jorginho eventually finds out about her identity, and they catch back their relationship, hidden from everyone, specially Carminha.
Carminha at first didn't trust Nina, as someone like her doing domestic labor looks suspicious, but Nina slowly gets her trust. At some point she finds out Rita was back, and lies about the truth about Rita to Nina, who becomes her confindent, saying that Genésio was an abusive father to her, and the girl hated her and refused any help she wanted to give her. Nina made her believe Rita was someone else than her, and made her childhood friend, Betânia, pretend to be Rita. Nina convinces Carminha to "help out" the "Rita", as a way of getting rid of her, and so Betânia wouldn't have to pretend to be her anymore. But later she finds out "Rita" didn't truly leave Rio, and starts tormenting her, reaching the point she killed her dog. But she eventually finds out Betânia wasn't Rita, and it took two to discover it was actually Nina. She tries to scare her off of her life by burying her alive. When she returns home, Nina (who escaped) blackmails Carminha into domestic labor using shoots of Carminha's affairs with Max. Everyone boosted by Nina believes Carminha is going insane, and she is even sent to a nursing home. She manages to finally get the pictures to herself, but Max ends up being the one to expose her, as a demonstration of how he was tired of all the lies. At a psychotic freak out, Max makes Nina and Carminha hostages, and the whole situation ends with Carminha murdering Max to prevent him from killing Nina.
Being kicked out of the mansion, she eventually joins her father Santiago, who turns out to be an abusive father.
Carminha shows real redemption traces by claiming to her father that he would really like to see his daughter, while he wants to use her to reconnect with the player's family until the two can take away all their fortune.
Personality and traits[]
Carminha is ruthless, sarcastic, deceitful, seductive, greedy and cruel, and also a manipulator. She simulates kindness to both of her husbands.