Fernanda Torres sits down with Collider's Perri Nemiroff for a Ladies Night interview in celebration of I'm Still Here.
The Big Picture ✕ Remove Ads As we near the New Year, awards season has come into focus and things are looking quite good for international feature contender I’m Still Here. Set in Brazil in the 1970s, a time of military dictatorship, the biographical drama puts the spotlight on Eunice Paiva , a mother of five who’s forced to forge forward after the disappearance of her husband, former Brazilian Labour Party congressman Rubens Paiva .
Posts If you’re familiar with Torres’ lineage, it’ll come as no surprise that her interest in acting was sparked by her parents, her father Fernando Torres and her mother Fernanda Montenegro, who also appears in I’m Still Here. “I was raised in the wings of theater. Our dining table was the place where they rehearsed.
✕ Remove Ads “ I was doing the soap opera, so I was thinking about giving up the profession. Then I got that award, and I was in Brazil shooting the soap opera. In the streets, at that time — nowadays, it wouldn't be like this, but at that time, it became like a World Cup, like a soccer award. I became like a Pelayo . It was something unbelievable. And young! I believed, ‘Wow, now I'll have an international career. I will do just cinema.
“ I'm Still Here opened in Brazil and brought people back to the cinemas. It's totally full. Totally full with people applauding and hugging each other, like a Mass! This is so beautiful, so beautiful.” “That made the whole difference because, at a certain point, we are not acting anymore. We were just being . ‘To be or not to be,’ the famous problem. You do not pretend to feel. This film has this strange quality. We are acting. Of course, we are acting. But there is something beyond that.”
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