After her season in Fortaleza and her experience with Hiroldo Serra’s group, Débora Ingrid returned to Russas. She learned of the search for actors to join the cast of the short film Doce de coco, by Allan Deberton. “She came to my house and said she wanted to make the movie. Right away I thought she was the one I was looking for. I even said that I would give the answer later, but as soon as I saw her, I thought it was her”, recalls Deberton.
The choice paid off and she dragged four “best actress” awards with her performance. In Coconut Candy, Ingrid lends her childhood to Diana, the daughter of a family that sells coconut sweets. “The best thing that can be said about it is simplicity. The absence of vanity”, assesses Sidney Souto, who stars with the actress in the short. “She is interested in working on the film, on the play and this gives her content when interpreting that is much greater than vanity. So much so that I’m going to produce a movie and it’s already cast. In fact, she doesn’t even know it yet”, adds the actor.
And it was through Deberton that Camilo Cavalcante met Débora Ingrid. “I had other actresses in my head to play Alfonsina. I came to Fortaleza to take the test and I had no doubts. She has a natural talent”, praises Camilo. To bring the character to life, Débora Ingrid had to lose four kilos. “I needed an actress who the more withered the better. We did a very intense laboratory for her to play a country girl. There, she dedicated herself to the tasks of a girl who has to take care of the house, people, animals”, explains the director. After filming for two months in the sertão and not knowing anyone, Débora Ingrid says that it was very challenging to face the project. But when she saw that butterflies in her stomach reappear, she gave in and did the best Alfonsina she could. Interestingly, the first time she received an award in her hands was last month, in Paulínia. The other times she competed, financial difficulties prevented the trip. “I went (to Paulínia, at the invitation of the festival’s production) because I wanted to see the film, which I hadn’t seen finished yet. I didn’t even think about an award”, comments the actress, even more pleased to have shared the award with the other two colleagues in the film. “It shows that we gave a unity to the film, to the characters”.
Now Débora divides her time between the UFC theater course and the Sociedad Anônima group Pineapple Eaters. Living in the university residence, where she received O PEVO for this conversation, she dedicates a good part of her time to her studies and, whenever she can, goes to Russas, where she has not lost contact with Oficarte. “I think when I’m there receiving an award, I’m taking the whole group with me. That makes everything even bigger.” By the way, it was with her mother the first celebration of the award in Paulínia. “I called her from there and I only heard her screams on the phone”, he laughs.
