''Sangue Oculto'' (English title: ''The Secret'') is a Portuguese

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produced by SP Televisão and broadcast by

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. It premiered on 19 September 2022. The telenovela is written by Sandra Santos with the collaboration of Pedro Barbosa da Silva, Andreia Vicente Martins, Joana Andrade, Manuel Mora Marques, Pedro Cavaleiro and Sara Cardoso. It stars Sara Matos,

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, António Pedro Cerdeira, Maria João Pinho, Marcantónio Del Carlo, Mariana Pacheco and Cristóvão Campos.

Plot

Thirty years ago, Vanda found out that Teresa, a housekeeper working at her home, was pregnant of

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from her own husband Olavo. While he was on a diplomatic mission abroad, Vanda seizes the opportunity to make Teresa hide her pregnancy by promising to help her with money, all the while planning for a way to getting rid of her. With no way to contact Olavo, Teresa is forced to comply with Vanda, oblivious to the fact that she intends to take advantage of her pregnancy for herself, as her inability to bear children is one of the reasons for her marriage being strained. On the day of the birth, Vanda dupes Teresa and takes her to an inactive delivery room at the hospital where she works as a doctor and, with the help of a colleague, drugs Teresa in order to do what she needs. Vanda's plan is to keep one of the children, whom she’ll raise as her own, and sell the other one to a couple abroad. Teresa wakes up from

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and, believing that her first daughter is stillborn, manages to escape from the hospital before Vanda manages to steal her other child, Carolina. Knowing that her boss won’t let go, Teresa decides to flee the country. Meanwhile, Vanda presents the twin, Benedita to her husband, telling him that she was abandoned by her mother and that she wants to adopt her. Olavo is enamoured by the baby, oblivious to the fact that she actually is his own biological daughter.

Cast

* as Carolina Batista, Benedita Corte Real and Júlia Pereira de Mello ** TBA as Young Carolina and Young Júlia *

as Teresa Batista ** Laura Dutra as Young Teresa *

as Vanda Corte Real ** Vitória Frate as Young Vanda *

as Tiago Carvalho * as Olavo Corte Real ** João Gadelha as Young Olavo * as Carmo Pereira de Mello * as João Pereira de Mello * as Patrícia Pereira de Mello ** TBA as Young Patrícia * as Pedro Brito *

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as Lídia Rocha * as Guilherme Mesquita * Anabela Moreira as Sílvia Apolinário * as António Jorge "Tojó" Rocha *

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as Remédios Brito * Luís Alberto as Tadeu Batista ** Jorge Silva as Young Tadeu * as Noémia Batista ** Margarida Bento as Young Noémia * as Joaquim Agostinho * as Maria Pacheco * as Nelson Apolinário * as Fernanda "Naná" Pacheco * as César Apolinário * as Bárbara Barreto *

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as Fábio Lucas * as Rosa Silva * Filipe Matos as Mário Apolinário * Guilherme Moura as Vasyl Kovalenko * Inês Pires Tavares as Elsa Rocha * as Henrique Serôdio * Maria Marques as Anna Batista * Ricardo Lopes as Bruno Rocha

Guest stars

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as Alberto Mesquita ** Sisley Dias as Young Alberto * as Almeno Carvalho * as Becky Agostinho * Inigo Galiano as Vasco

Production

In August 2021, the pre-production for the telenovela began. Almost a year later, the first scenes began to be filmed in

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, in

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, with the rest of the cast in the same month, respectively on the 15 July 2022, and also later in SP Televisão studios. Also, in November 2022 there were as well recordings in

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, that places in the history as a desolate field in

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for cost containment; and in January 2023 in

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. The recordings should end in January 2023, but were postponed to March due to the interruptions of the recordings of Lia Gama and

for health reasons in Q4 2022. The last scenes of

and Marcantónio Del Carlo were filmed on 30 January 2023 and Sara Matos on 2 March. The remaining cast finished the work on March 15.

Ratings

Premiering with the purpose of raising the audiences left of its predecessors in the time slot ( Amor Amor - Vol. 2 and '' Por Ti'') saw one of the worst pilot-episode rating of the first track of telenovelas broadcast by

, drawing a rating of 10.1 points and audience share of 20.8%. Since the second episode, the telenovela showed some leadship in the audiences, although not be every day. The last episode sawed the vice-leadership of the audiences, drawing a rating of 7.1 points and audience share of 15.0%.

References

External links

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