and joining us now the star of I'm still here Oscar nominated actress Fernanda Torres she also won the Golden Globe last month for her role in the film so let's start by saying thank you for being here and also congratulations thank you thank you for having me oh it's our it is our pleasure on the uh congrats on the award the nominations let's just start there what has that that moment been like to to receive such a claim and recognition for this role it's like a miracle because you know it's a film spoken in Portuguese
a small film compared to the other ones and I think it says a lot about the power of this story and how people as soon as they see it they watch it they get like touched by this family this woman and the story so that connection that you're speaking about talk what was it like for you what was that connection for you what Drew you to the role how could you refuse I mean it was wter sales the same director that I did foreign land he did Central Station with my mother and then now again
and this story because it it's the story of the kidnapping and the torture of a congressman in the 70s that were never spoken about it was like a pale photograph that were being forgotten and then suddenly his son writes the story and it's a book which the film is based on that where this boy discovered that the great heroine of the family is his mother and it's a story about endurance about Hope and very special story for the crisis we are dealing nowadays I think so that's why the film got so much attention yeah the
book obviously uh had a lot of impact the movie now as well what are you hearing as people come to you from from from Brazil who are saying the how this film has made them feel seeing this play out on screen oh in Brazil it was a phenomena because people start to go to the movie theaters like they were not going anymore and people from the leftwing rightwing center and they all had because as the film is centered in the family everybody can relate to if you are young you can relate to the children if
you are mother if you are father and it's a film very important now because young people are being introduced to what does it really means to live in a dictatorship through this film so it was a film that connected I think free Brazil from the binary ideology that or you are in the side or the other one and they Bor together and now with what is happening with the movie people are just going nuts and the Oscar is going to happen happen during Carnival so it's so you mentioned your mother uh and we should note
that you're the second Brazilian actress to be nominated for Academy Award uh in the category of leading leading actress the other your mother it's my mother who who is you know some years ago talk to us about what is that like to have that achievement for your family it's again unbelievable I would never thought it would happen and again the Eli the the the character portrait in the in the movie she raised Marcel hubin spiva who is this writer who wrote this book a very famous writer Brazil and my mother raised me so the film
has also this symbology about transmission about art enduring through time so of course for me and my mother it's so beautiful I mean and in Brazil we have this phenoma that it's Fernanda me Fernanda my mother and the Fernandez Fernanda Montenegro your your mother and also but reeving these nominations in films done by the same director yeah can imagine it just this is such a beautiful tale that I'm really happy grateful and I don't know well the movie is certainly breaking through and the Academy Awards coming up soon the new movie I'm still here is
indeed currently playing Nationwide in the US and Canada Academy Award nominated actress Fernand Torres thank you and good luck next month thank you very much
