Anitta Films Herself Showering Naked with Her Director in Shocking Scene From Netflix Doc ‘Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta’
Anitta Films Herself Showering Naked with Her Director in Shocking Scene From Netflix Doc ‘Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta’
To say that Brazilian pop star Anitta gets intimate with the director of her new Netflix documentary, Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta—which is coming to the streamer on March 6—is an extreme understatement. Because she quite literally strips down naked and takes a shower with her film’s director and childhood friend, Pedro Cantelmo. That’s one way to get people to watch your documentary!
Cantelmo, who co-directed the documentary with João Wainer, explains early on in the film that Anitta, whose real name is Larissa de Macedo Machado, reached out to him to ask him to film a new documentary about her. (This is, in fact, Anitta’s second Netflix documentary, following 2018’s Vai Anitta.) “I was definitely confused at first,” Cantelmo says in a voice-over. “She’s Anitta. She could’ve gotten anyone to work on this.”
Cantelmo goes on to explain that, apparently, Anitta wanted someone who knew her from before she was a famous pop star, to capture the duality of her on-stage persona, Anitta, and her off-stage persona, Larissa. Cantelmo and Anitta are both from the same working-class neighborhood of Honório Gurgel in Rio de Janeiro, and knew each other growing up.
But it quickly becomes clear that she—or perhaps screenplay writer Maria Ribeiro—had another reason they wanted Cantelmo around. It’s because Cantelmo had a crush on Larissa as a kid, and she knows it. Both Anitta and the filmmakers clearly wanted to exploit that sexual tension for all it was worth.
No where is that more clear than in the shocking scene in which Anitta, who is 31, instructs her director to strip down naked in the shower so that she can wash him.
First, Anitta demurely asks Cantelmo if he’s coming to bed, during one of the many scenes where he films her various states of undress in a hotel room.
“Yes, I’m taking a shower and then I’ll sleep,” Cantelmo responds.
“Then I’ll wash you.”
“What?”
“I’ll wash you,” Anitta explains. “So you won’t smell like—what is it? Come here. See, just a little to get rid of this gross cigarette smell.”
So, Cantelmo carefully sets up a camera in the bathroom, aimed at the hotel bathroom’s glass shower door. He and Anitta, both naked, step into the shower together, where Anitta begins to run her hands all over his body to “wash” him. The glass door is pretty foggy, and at one point Anitta wipes away the fog with her arm to reveal that, yes, her breasts are fully out.
This is more than flirting: This is full-on foreplay, being filmed for Netflix audiences worldwide.
Yet when Cantelmo tries to wash Anitta back, she pushes his hands away. “No, I know how to shower,” she tells him in Portuguese. “It’s you who doesn’t know.”
Call me an American prude if you want, but I was shocked by this scene. It’s one thing to flirt with your director and childhood friend a little bit here and there, it’s another to film you both naked in the shower together.
You can’t help but feel for Cantelmo, especially when Anitta eventually seems to grow tired of basking in his attention, and instead starts ignoring him completely. (Cantelmo later says in a voiceover that he “messed up,” but doesn’t elaborate beyond that.)
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