Maria de Medeiros's debut at 15 years old. At the time Monteiro chose her, she didn't even think about acting. "My vocation, from a young age, was drawing, and I was convinced that I would do Fine Arts. But Monteiro arrived, who was a madman, or rather a mad genius. She had started shooting 'Silvestre', and when she was halfway through the film she decided to burn it and start again, from the beginning, with me, who was the daughter of a friend of his. That was the beginning of my career, a bit of a coincidence. I was a little girl."