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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”

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Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres delivers a powerhouse performance as a defiant widow fighting the military dictatorship in Walter Salles' Oscar-contending drama 'I'm Still Here'.
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  • Torres' character Eunice Paiva was a real-life activist whose husband disappeared under the regime, and she spent 25 years campaigning for his death certificate to be issued.
  • The real Eunice and her family refused to be broken by the regime's scare tactics, famously telling photographers that 'the family of Rubens Paiva does not cry in front of the cameras'.
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Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Rubens Paiva, Marcelo Paiva, Brazil's military dictatorship, 'I'm Still Here'
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