Both Torres and Salles are in the mix for Oscar nominations for best actress and best international film this year.
Fernanda Torres as Eunice in “I’m Still Here,” for which she won best actress at the Golden Globes on Jan. 5, 2025. The film is also short-listed for best international film for the Academy Awards. , intended to make a film based on a real-life Rio de Janeiro woman who fought for justice for her family after Brazil’s military dictatorship abducted her congressman husband in 1971.
“I’m Still Here” is the true-life story of Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, who is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent loss at the hands of the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil at the time. Actress Fernanda Torres, who portrays Eunice, won the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama on Jan. 5, 2025.
Director Walter Salles with actress Fernanda Torres, left, on the set of “I’m Still Here,” for which Torres won the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama on Jan. 5, 2025. Fernanda Torres as Eunice in “I’m Still Here,” for which she won best actress at the Golden Globes on Jan. 5, 2025. The film is also short-listed for best international film for the Academy Awards. Director Walter Salles and actress Fernanda Torres on the set of “I’m Still Here,” for which Torres won the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama on Jan. 5, 2025. – perhaps the biggest surprise of that night.
Not only in her work on screen but behind the camera as a storyteller and screenwriter, too, he adds. “Therefore, the relationship with every single person in the family extended to the point that when that house was hit by a tragedy under the military dictatorship, this kind of stipulated a before and after in all our lives.”
Torres, 59, came of age during Brazil’s military dictatorship, which lasted 21 years from 1964 to 1985. The film brought back personal memories of her young life in an artistic, intellectual world like that of the Paivas. “That’s Walter’s slow process. I remember him telling me, ‘Trust me. Do less. Trust me.’ But it’s very difficult. It’s not the problem of doing less. It’s the restraint of Eunice. This politeness, this femininity, together with this deep sense of injustice.”“I remember one thing that once my mother told me,” she says. “She said, ‘You know, Nanda, when you do Hecuba, you cannot start to cry in the first bad news. Hecuba, she endures. Tragedy is about enduring and not feeling self-pity.
In Brazil, the film had only opened in December a few days before our separate video calls with Torres and Salles.
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