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
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