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Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello on Brazil’s ‘I’m Still Here’ Breaking Into the Oscar Race and Their Onscreen Reunion After More Than 20 Years
Golden Globe Winner Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello discuss working with Walter Salles on the film about Rubens and Eunice Paiva.
He had also worked with her brother, filmmaker Cláudio Torres, and her mother, legendary actor Fernanda Montenegro — perhaps best-known to American audiences for her Oscar-nominated turn in Walter Salles’ 1998 film “Central Station.” Says Mello, “I literally feel like part of the family.” It wasn’t until 2015, when Paiva published “I’m Still Here,” that the world learned not only the details of his father’s disappearance, but the inspirational story of Eunice, who also survived torture and imprisonment to start a new life with their five children and become a successful attorney and human rights advocate. Torres notes that nobody was on their phones on the set, and the young actors playing the Paiva children were usually only told what would be happening in a scene shortly before shooting.
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