Brazil’s Fernanda Torres Dedicates Golden Globe To Her Mother, Who Was Nominated 25 Years Ago – “Art Can Endure Through Life”
deadline.com“Of course I want to dedicated this to my mother. You have no idea. She was here 25 year ago and this is like a proof that art can endure through life,” said Brazilian’s Fernanda Torres, accepting her Golden Globe for Best Female Actor in A Motion Picture Drama for Walter Salles I’m Still Here in a competitive filed that included Nicole Kidman and Angeline Jolie.
Torres, one of Brazil’s best-known actors is the daughter of Fernanda Montenegro, an icon of Brazilian cinema, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1999 for Salles’ breakthrough feature Central Station.
She did not win but the took best international feature. The elder Fernanda appears in I’m Still Here as an older version of Torres’ character. “Thank you Walter Salles, my partner, my friend.
What a story,” Torres said. RELATED: Emilia Pérez’ & ‘The Brutalist’ Take Top Film Prizes At : Full Winners List Salles’ first dramatic feature in 12 years is a gripping story of life under tyranny with Torres starring as Eunice, a wife and mother of five in Rio de Janeiro whose sun dappled and family beach outings and joyous dinners with friends give way to terror and tragedy under the dictatorship that seized power in Brazil in 1964.
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