The Circle Brazil contestant Rob Vulcan is claiming that Netflix producers favored black and LGBTQ contestants on the show and manipulated the cast to say and do certain things, all while revealing fights among castmates and sharing alleged behind-the-scenes secrets about the series. The first-ever U.S. edition of The Circle premiered in January 2020 and became an instant classic for fans. In March, Netflix released The Circle Brazil, which was subsequently followed by The Circle France a month later. Netflix's success with this franchise has been so significant that the company has already renewed The Circle U.S. for two more seasons.
On The Circle Brazil, Rob was criticized for displaying what was perceived as transphobic behavior. When new player Luma entered the competition, Rob assumed that she was transgender and immediately exposed her presumed gender identity to all other players. On the show, twins Lucas and Marcel used pictures of a friend – who does not identify as trans – for Luma's catfish profile. Rob then insisted on interrogating Luma about her gender, making several players feel uncomfortable. Now, less than three months after the season concluded, Rob has shared his experiences with the show's production team and castmates.
On Monday, June 1, Rob was interviewed by WebTVBrasileira, where he made various damaging claims regarding his The Circle Brazil castmates and the Netflix producers who worked on the show. Rob began by claiming that the production team was favoring black and LGBTQIA+ contestants over others and manipulating the cast to say and do certain things. As an example, Rob claimed that his post-elimination visit to Marina Gregory's apartment was an imposition from the producers, who allegedly also manipulated other eliminated players to visit Marina in order to build on her trajectory. Later, Rob revealed that each of them heard a producer's voice talking to them all day: "If you're asleep, [producers would tell you] when to wake up. If you're pooping, [they'd tell you] when to stop. If you're taking a shower, [they'd tell you to] go do something else." Moreover, Rob claimed that producers constantly blocked him from starting certain chats but forced him to start others. When asked if he knew about other contestants facing similar experiences, Rob claimed that they all shared the same complaints but were scared to speak out in public. After making several other claims pertaining to The Circle Brazil being fake and producers pushing a script, Rob joked that Netflix should have hired actors for the show instead of real people.
When asked if he thought that it was insensitive to expose and interrogate a trans person, Rob responded: "For me, I don't think so. (...) When [Luma] arrived, I saw her picture and I joked with [the producers] saying, 'S**t, look at her huge feet, look at her huge hands, the girl must be trans.'" Rob then alleged that producers induced him to say certain things and asked him to repeat his statement about Luma being trans "40 different times." Later, Rob stated that he knew Luma was a fake profile because "[Luma's] personality was dude-like, and that's why I joked that she was trans. Because it was a man inside a woman, you get me?"
The interview then moved on to the fallout between the castmates of The Circle Brazil, which Rob claims to have started during the finale taping when Raphael Dumaresq spoke badly of Rafael Vilar. After taping the episode, producers and castmates attended a Netflix wrap party that, according to Rob, served "half-assed pizza and warm beer." Nonetheless, Rob alleges that the party was suddenly cut short once Dumaresq was caught outside of the venue kissing one of the show's producers and smoking something that Rob implies may not have been cigarettes. During the subsequent months, Rob claims to have confronted his castmates several times about different circumstances and alleges that most of the cast chose to lie and/or omit various stories in order to protect the image of certain contestants with the general public.
In response to the interview, JP Gadelha said in a tweet that Rob is "a resentful contestant who is incapable of understanding his own failures." Dumaresq also sent out a tweet, which read: "Even I didn't know how much power I had over Netflix. To the point of shutting down a party? Loved it." On Tuesday, June 2, several The Circle Brazil castmates were scheduled for a joint interview with WebTVBrasileira. However, a few hours prior to the live-stream, all of the scheduled contestants suddenly canceled their appearances, sharing varying explanations on their social media accounts. Gabriel "Gaybol" Cardoso said in a tweet that he had already committed to the #BlackOutTuesday movement taking place that day. Marina said in a tweet that they "were not authorized" to take part in the interview, implying that they had received a last-minute veto from Netflix or The Circle Brazil producers.
Now, fans are accusing the castmates of being disrespectful to the YouTube channel that gave them all a platform to hash things out, claiming that certain contestants had different initial excuses for their cancellation and then suddenly started to imply that the decision had been out of their control. One popular theory is that Netflix may have vetoed this particular interview in an attempt to contain the various claims that Rob had made the day before. Another popular theory is that cast of The Circle Brazil may be legally barred from conducting a joint interview that would resemble a reunion episode, but that each contestant could have given individual interviews.
Source: WebTVBrasileira
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