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[beforethepoison]

" I want to dedicate it to my mother. She was here 25 years ago. And this is like a proof that art can endure through life"

Fernanda Torres dedicating her Golden Globes Best Actress win to her mother Fernanda Montenegro

[rm-dedeca]

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[millsluthor]

I'm so proud to be Brazilian and to be able to see Brazilian actors winning. This award is ours. Viva o Brasil, viva ao cinema brasileiro. Viva Fernanda Torres, viva! 🥳🇧🇷❤️

[qu4kerider]

FERNANDA TORRES and SELTON MELLO for Variety

[tha-star]

It's kind of insane, isn't it? On the one hand, you have a film dealing with a dictatorial period in Brazil, caused by US involvement, which is what the US did throughout Latin America, by brazilians, director, producer, actors, all Brazilian, in Brazilian Portuguese. Authentically latino.

And on the other hand we have French and American citizens delivering the Mexican stereotype once again.

A colonizer still a colonizer, I guess...

[lovelyteuvo]

I saw "I'm still here" and wow, it's one of the best movies I have ever seen!! And I need to talk about it, so please be prepared and stay with me

I already knew it would an amazing work not only because of the critics, but also because of all the team involved (all my favorite actors together was like a dream!!). But absolutely nothing prepared me to see the true love the production have put into the tiny details, them team and actors exemplified what respect is in it's purest form, they believe in their message and know how sacred it is

The silence throughout the two hours was inexplainable, every single person could see themselves on the screen. We didn't need multiple scenes about the couple falling for each other, or hundreds of descriptions about the kids personalities, only them together show us the love, showed us a reflection of our own families and culture, we connected to the characters with the first smile

It's a movie about Brazil, made by Brazilians, to Brazilians

As much as I love seeing this work having the deserved recognition, I don't care if we are not winning statues, "I'm still here" is a urgent wake up call and it must be listened no matter in which place of this globe

I have so much more to talk about this amazing film, but I think this post it's already a little too long lol I just want to say, go watch and I promise you will never regret it!! <3

[alien-with-headphones]

to all my mutuals who are not brazilian having to deal w my fernanda torres bs right now: deal with it /j

[ann7av]

Fernanda: Guys, no World Cup behavior!!

The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Someone asked for World Cup behavior??

Jokes aside, the government openly supporting a movie about the dictatorship a part of Brazil believe was “not all that bad” is something so relevant...

[overdoso]

O Le Monde ousou criticar Fernanda Torres obviamente pra puxar a sardinha para Emília Perez.. As redes sociais do Le Monde nesse momento

[skellybonesandtrees]

It's undeniable one of the things that made this taste so good is that it rubs right wingers noses into a part of our history they want to erase or pretend never happened because they're stinking fascists at heart.

[myrefugeblog]

Hi everyone! My most recent guilt pleasure is looking people roast that garbage, 13 times indicated oscar movie. But I avoid to share negativity in general. Yesterday I saw this video about a very amazing movie. I'm still here is a great movie, and I loved every second of it. Cecilily explains very well why we are so in love whit the movie and the Fernandas.

[bee-vvitch]

I'm so fucking happy! 🇧🇷

Fernanda Torres wins Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture Drama during the 82nd Annual Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025.

[whileiamdying]

Fernanda Torres wears a Prada top, skirt, and belt; Jean Schlumberger by Tiffany & Co. earrings; Tiffany & Co. necklace; her own rings.

FROM THE MAGAZINE

Fernanda Torres Has Been Here All Along

With her stirring portrayal of Eunice Paiva in I’m Still Here, the Brazilian icon finally has Hollywood’s full attention. 

Interview by Lynn Hirschberg Photographs by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott Styled by Sara Moonves Jan. 4, 2025

As the daughter of the legendary actor Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres is practically Brazilian royalty. But while, at 59, she has been revered in her home country for decades, she’s only just receiving the Hollywood recognition she deserves, thanks to her star turn in I’m Still Here. The film, written and directed by Walter Salles, tells the true story of Eunice Paiva, a mother of five who lost her husband under the tyranny of the Duarte Regime in Brazil in the 1970s. Anchored by Torres’s stellar performance as the real-life housewife turned activist, the film has become one of Brazil’s biggest box office hits this century. Now it’s in Golden Globes contention for best foreign language film with Torres landing her first nomination for best actress. Here, Torres talks about acting alongside her 95-year-old mother—who plays an older version of Paiva in the film—and her long-running collaboration with Salles.

How did you meet Walter Salles?

Walter has always been there. In 1994, we did Foreign Land, a film that we shot in Brazil and Portugal. That was a formative movie for us—Walter discovered what kind of director he was. I discovered that improvisation could be a way to write. He did Central Station with my mother and the film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1999. In I'm Still Here, we're all together again—Walter, my mother, me. It's very touching.

I’m Still Here tells an important story—the film simultaneously gives the narrative of the Paiva family and of the destructive impact of a dictatorship.

Nobody knew about Eunice Paiva. She’s a great Brazilian, a great woman, but she never did anything to be noticed. She starts out as a perfect housewife from the ’50s: She serves the coffee, she takes care of her five children. But when tragedy comes, it changes her totally, and she’s able to reinvent herself. I think Eunice’s smile is a kind of weapon—she makes you want to fight for your family and your beliefs.

Your mother is the only Brazilian actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. Was it daunting for you, as her daughter, to decide to become an actor?

My mother almost feels pity for people who don’t know the pleasures of theater. Theater gave her a thousand lives. She was the daughter of a very simple family, and through theater she had the lives of queens, killers—whatever she wanted. I was raised in the wings of theaters. My father, Fernando, is also an actor and producer. And they named me Fernanda. So I couldn't escape, you see? I paid a lot of hours in shrinks, and I really don't know how I did it, but I did it. I started working as an actress from the time I was 13 years old.

You turned out so well-adjusted.

I find it a miracle. Isn’t it a miracle? Even now, to be here with this film. The other day, I saw Judi Dench saying that there is a lot of luck involved in this business, and I think she's right.

Have you ever acted in an American production?

I acted in Mexico. I did the last bad movie of Anthony Hopkins. We climbed a pyramid together, and he told me, "Isn't it amazing they even pay us to be here?" That was the closest I got to Hollywood.

Do you dream in Portuguese or English?

I think I dream in Portuguese. But if I stay in America for a long time, it changes. Today I had a dream with Marlon Brando. I think it was in English.

Have you always been fluent in English?

The first time I went to the Cannes Film Festival, I was 17 years old. I had a movie there, La Semaine de la Critique. I discovered that I couldn't communicate with anybody. I studied English and French in school, but I mean, to really communicate—to be myself in another language—is another thing. It took me a long time. And a relationship with an avant-garde theater director for four years.

What was the first movie you remember seeing?

Donkey Skin, with Catherine Deneuve. The next one was 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s a great child’s movie. When I had my kid, it was the first film I showed him. You have the monkeys, the spaceship.

What is your pet peeve?

People who talk about their lives on the Internet. Falling in love, and then they fight, and then they have to explain themselves, and then they fight someone else and they have to tell about it. It’s a sickness nowadays.

Do you watch any reality shows?

I find reality shows strange. It’s a sick thing, too. There’s one I like: Naked and Afraid.People naked in the forest. And it's always a couple. The guy comes and says, “I want to hold her during the night because it's really, really cold.” You see? And the woman comes and says, “I'm not comfortable with him holding me.” I love it. They don’t even get paid. I could not stop laughing.

Torres wears a Marni dress and shoes; Erin Fader Jewelry earrings; Patricia von Musulin bracelets; Graff ring.

Makeup by Mark Carrasquillo at R3 MGMT. Makeup assistants: Nanase Ito, Claire Brooke.

Style Director: Allia Alliata di Montereale. Hair for portfolio by Paul Hanlon at Dawes & Co.; makeup for portfolio by Sam Visser at Art Partner; manicures for portfolio by Michelle Saunders James. Set design by Gerard Santos at Lalaland.

Creative producer to Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott: Leonard Cuinet-Petit at January Productions; producer to Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott: Kevin Isabelle; produced by AP Studio, Inc.; executive producer: Alexis Piqueras; producer: Anneliese Kristedja; associate producer: Kimmy D’Ancona; production manager: Hayley Stephon; production coordinators: Miranda Dos Santos, Susan Lucas; photography assistants: John Neate, Jed Barnes, Chris Whitaker, Kendall Peck; digital technician: Niccolo Pacilli; digital assistant: Cassian Gray; postproduction by Dreamer Post Production; fashion assistants: Tyler VanVranken, Molly Cody, Celeste Roh, Raea Palmieri, Tatiana Isshac, Haleigh Nickerson, Lauren Marron, Savannah Steilner, Sage McKee, Frankie Benkovic, Kaley Azambuja, Tatum Sanchez; production assistants: Gigi Rosenfield, Lily Cordingley, Eli Cash, Lex Vaughn, Anderson Renno, Kat Saravia, Kyle Dekker, Wyatt Noble, Brandon Martin, Moose Krupski, Josh Muwwakkil, Bradley Gonsalves, Drew Carter, Thomas Lynch, Alex Kofman, Jackson Schrader, Anatalia Zavaleta, Joseph Wride, Matt Flynn; first AD: Steve Kemp; location manager: Kyle Hollinger; hair assistants: Kim Garduno, Ben Gregory, Marco Iafrate, Hyacinthia Faustino, Chris Foster; makeup assistants: Shimu Takanori, Laura Dudley, Brian Dean, Beatrice Sandoval; manicure assistant: Cheyenne Vander Schuur; set design assistants: Seth Powsner, Denver Stoddard, Ryan Johnson; tailors: Irina Tshartaryan, Ripsime Vartanyan, Jackie Martirosyan at Susie’s Custom Designs, Inc.

[tita-ferreira]

“Que democracia é essa que oculta nossa história?”, questiona Victória - Programa Faixa Livre

[artificialharmony]

Fernanda Montenegro — and family — reacts to her daughter, Fernanda Torres, victory as best actress at the Golden Globes ♥️

[deadinsidewithglitterontop]

VOCÊS VIRAM A FERNANDA TORRES?

TOTALMENTE PREMIADA

Golden Globe Winner Fernanda Torres, Best Female Actor, Motion Picture — Drama.