Fernanda Torres Reveals Her Reaction To Oscar Nom & Life Growing Up In Brazil In A Family of Actors

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Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres sat down with THR at her cover shoot and shared what life was like growing up in Brazil and how it mirrored her film I'm Still Here. She also discussed her reaction to the news of her nomination and how her acting family has been strongly embraced in Brazil.

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00:00People went to the movie theaters again, and people were crying in the movie theaters.

00:06This film, Awake, the pride in culture, in cinema, and also, I'm the daughter of my mother,

00:14so we are this entity.

00:17Brazil likes me.

00:18My childhood was pretty much like the house you see, and I'm still here.

00:32I lived in a house very similar to that one, and my mother, she looked pretty much like

00:39Onisi Paiva.

00:40That was my childhood, playing in the streets.

00:43I love Rio de Janeiro, I mean, I'm a product of the culture.

00:48Rio, there is a lot of artists, musicians, so we were kind of raised in this environment.

00:55Life was like that.

00:56I mean, you have a dictatorship in a country.

00:59Susan Sontag, I think she went to Sarajevo when there was the war, and she said that every

01:05week, there was a party in the main square, so even when the situation is unbearable, I

01:13think people find a way just to live.

01:16So happiness, life, theater, music, it was all around, together with a very dark, dark

01:24time.

01:25The 70s were my childhood, really.

01:29And then the 80s was when my generation came with great poets, great music.

01:36I started to live, I think, really in the 80s.

01:40I miss the 80s.

01:44I had my parents who were actors.

01:47I used to go a lot to the theaters and our house, for instance, the dining table was the

01:53place where they rehearsed.

01:55We would come from the school and they would be there sitting and preparing for the new play.

02:01So that's how I grew up.

02:04And also later, when I was an adolescent, then I had the influence of my parents, but also

02:13everybody wanted to be actors because theater was very strong in Rio de Janeiro, together

02:19with music.

02:20My mother, we talk a lot about theater and acting.

02:24And we talk generally about life, theater.

02:28She talks a lot about theater.

02:32Eunice teaches me a lot.

02:35I've never did a Greek tragedy.

02:39And I consider Eunice a Greek tragedy, someone who passes through something beyond human capability.

02:48And when it happens, what she does is she has to control herself because she has five children.

02:57So the anger, the desperation, it's a mother fighting for a family alone.

03:04It's so big.

03:05And at the same time, so controlled.

03:08It's something that I've never done before, I think, and it teaches me a lot.

03:13And I think I'll take Eunice with me for a lot of things from now on because I understood

03:20something about acting with Eunice.

03:24I was in Lisbon and I didn't watch the television because I hate expectations.

03:31And my son and my husband, one of my sons, the oldest one, were in the house with my husband.

03:39And they came up to the room where I was and said, and I had this strange feeling because

03:49the Oscars for us in Brazil for an actor is something so far away.

03:55To imagine that a movie spoken in Portuguese, the nomination of my mother already was a

04:02kind of miracle.

04:03I never thought it would be possible.

04:06And then suddenly we were working this film, making people watch it.

04:10It was a heavy, heavy work.

04:12We could feel that there was a good feeling around the film and was really a surprise.

04:18It's like living in a parallel life that it's not really yours.

04:24And now it is mine, but it's funny.

04:27It was like, oh my God, how did it happen?

04:33I look for a good project.

04:35I don't make this difference between comedy and drama.

04:41You do whatever the project asks you to do.

04:45But of course I love comedy.

04:47My dream was to have done Young Frankenstein.

04:52That's the film I would die to do.

04:55The first film that I saw that my father took me to see was Podaz and Pelle d'Azen with

05:02Donkey's King with Catherine Deneuve.

05:06It's a fairy tale with Catherine Deneuve.

05:08I never forgot it.

05:10And later, 2001, another film that my father took me when I was a child.

05:16And later, when I had my children, that was the film that I first showed them.

05:22Because you have the monkeys, you have the spaceship.

05:26Even if you don't get the whole thing, you get a lot of things.

05:31I have a long career in the internet or outside the internet.

05:36Some people don't like me, but I'm popular in Brazil.

05:40And also, I'm the daughter of my mother.

05:43So we are this entity, the Fernandes, in a way.

05:47We work together, we work separately.

05:50So Brazil likes me.

05:52Before I had like 500,000 followers.

05:57After the movie, it was like almost 5 million people.

06:02So it is the movie that it's doing this kind of commotion in Brazil.

06:09This film became, with the nomination, the possibility of a nomination with Walter again, directing

06:15a film in Brazil about such a beautiful story that nobody knew that caused the commotion

06:22in Brazil.

06:23Because not me, the film, people went to the movie theaters again.

06:29And people were crying in the movie theaters and proud.

06:33So this film, awake, the pride in culture, in cinema.

06:45So, I hope you enjoyed it.

06:48And they hope it's the same.

06:52Then they'll be like Canada.

06:53And they've become the main event for me.

06:55They'll be in the movie theaters.

06:56You can watch Canada.

06:57Well, since I was a business, it was a business, right?

06:58So I gave it to Canada.

06:59So I gave it to Canada.

07:01And I gave it to Canada.

07:03It was a business.

07:05It was a business that I gave them the mission.

07:08And they'll be like in Canada.

07:13And I gave it to Canada.

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