The Brazilian-American helmer also discusses casting a real-life victim of human trafficking and how a white lie in college helped him land his mentor and producer, Ramin Bahrani.
Moratto discussed the inspiration for the film, working with the U.N. for his research and why he cast a real-life victim of human trafficking in a key role., and working in Brazil for three months. One night I was watching the TV — it was pretty late and I couldn’t sleep — and a special came on about modern-day enslavement and human trafficking in Brazil. Within two minutes, I was like, “This is interesting.
I wanted people who had survived enslavement in the film, but it’s so hard to find people who are ready to face that, emotionally. But he was very ready to tackle it, and I think it was very cathartic for him.Yeah, I wrote the role for him — I wanted to work with him again as we had such a great collaboration in. That was his first film role. I auditioned 1,000 kids, and he beat them all out — he’s just so interesting to watch.was his big breakout.
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