''Reality Z'' is a Brazilian

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series based on the British television miniseries ''

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''. Produced in partnership with Conspiração Filmes and directed by Cláudio Torres, the first season of 10 episodes premiered on

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on 10 June 2020.

Plot

The successful reality show ''Olympus'' – where TK, Jessica, Augusto, Marcos, Veronica, Madonna and Cleide were confined – is interrupted when a zombie apocalypse takes over

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, forcing the production and the cast to remain locked up in the studios. A production runner, Nina, leads the fight against monsters.

Cast

Main

*Ana Hartmann as Nina *

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as Alberto Levi *Carla Ribas as Ana Schmidt *Ravel Andrade as Leo Schmidt *

Guilherme Weber Guilherme Weber (born May 6, 1972) is a Brazilian actor, director and author. Career Guilherme began his career on theatre in 1989. He was fourteen years old when traveled with an amateur group to many cities in Brazil for four years. In 1992 ...

as Brandão and the voice of Zeus *Luellem de Castro as Teresa *João Pedro Zappa as TK and Hermes *

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as Jessica and Aphrodite *

Jesus Luz Jesus Pinto da Luz (born January 15, 1987) is a Brazilian model and DJ. Early life and family Luz was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of a hairdresser and public official in the Rio de Janeiro city government. His name was given to him b ...

as Lucas *Pierre Baitelli as Robson *Leandro Daniel as Augusto and Ares *Gabriel Canella as Marcos and Apollo *Natália Rosa as Veronica and Athena *Wallie Ruy as Madonna and Dionysus *Arlinda Di Baio as Cleide and Demeter *Julia Ianina as Cristina

Special guest

Sabrina Sato Sabrina Sato Rahal (born 4 February 1981) is a Brazilian television presenter. She was a contestant on ''Big Brother Brasil 3'' (2003) and a hostess on comedy program ''Pânico na TV'' from 2004 until 2013. Since 2014, she has her own show on ...

as Divina McCall *

Leda Nagle Leda Maria Linhares Nagle (born 5 January 1951) is a Brazilian journalist, writer, actress and television presenter. She hosted the program ''Sem Censura'' at TV Brasil for over 20 years. Life and career Nagle was born in Juiz de Fora. She mov ...

as Nora Werneck * Cinnara Leal as Clara * Erom Cordeiro as Marcelo * Bruno Bellarmino as Tysson * Saulo Arcoverde as Eric * Thelmo Fernandes as Peixe * Mariah de Moraes as Producer assistant * André Dale as José Peixoto * Charles Fricks as Dr. Fábio Lima

Episodes

Production

Development

On April 24, 2019, the series was announced by

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, creator of ''

'' on the

panel at the 2019 Rio2C (Rio Creative Conference) event. A teaser with

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, Netflix's head of content, convincing presenter

that there is no problem happening as the attraction was released on the same day on Netflix Brazil social medias to announce the series.

Casting

Alongside the initial series announcement, it was reported that actors

, Jesus Luz, Ana Hartmann, Emilio de Mello, Carla Ribas, Luellem de Castro, Ravel Andrade, and Wallie Ruy would be part of the cast and

as a special guest. Soundtrack *

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- " After Hours"

References

External links

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