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Fernanda Torres On Her Golden Globes-Winning Performance In Walter Salles’ Oscar Contender ‘I’m Still Here’: “It’s A Hell Of A Character To Play”

Fernanda Torres on her Golden Globes-Winning performance in Walter Salles’ Oscar contender ‘I’m Still Here’

“Photographers wanted to take pictures of us looking sad, so we started a battle against the media,” explained her son Marcelo, who wrote the memoir that Salles’ film is based on. Unlike her daughter, Montenegro lost out (to Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love), but last August, at the age of 95, the actress hit a milestone of a different kind, making the Guinness Book of World Records for The Largest Audience of a Book Reading (Portuguese Language) after a reading excerpts from French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s writings to a crowd of 15,000 people. He was this beautiful boy that couldn’t move anymore [after jumping in a shallow lake at the age of 20], but wrote this very straightforward book about his accident, asking himself if he was ever going to have sex again, which must have been really hard coming from a guy who’d lost his movement.

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