00:00People went to the movie theatres again, and people were crying in the movie theatres.
00:06This film awakens the pride in culture, in cinema.
00:12And also, I'm the daughter of my mother, so we are this entity.
00:17Brazil likes me.
00:18My childhood was pretty much like the house you see in I'm Still Here.
00:32I lived in a house very similar to that one, and my mother, she looked pretty much like Eunice 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.
00:54Life 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,
01:04and she said that every week there was a party in the main square.
01:09So even when the situation is unbearable, I think people find a way just to live.
01:16So happiness, life, theatre, music, it was all around, together with a very dark, dark time.
01:24The 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 theatres, and our house, for instance, the dining table was the place 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.
02:05And also later, when I was an adolescent, then I had the influence of my parents,
02:11but also everybody wanted to be actors, because theatre was very strong in Rio de Janeiro, together with music.
02:20My mother, we talk a lot about theatre and acting.
02:25We talk generally about life, theatre, she talks a lot about theatre.
02:32Eunice teached me a lot.
02:35I never did a Greek tragedy, and I consider Eunice a Greek tragedy,
02:42someone 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, and at the same time, so controlled.
03:08That's something that I've never done before, I think.
03:11And it teached me a lot, and I think I'll take Eunice with me for a lot of things from now on,
03:18because I understood something about acting with Eunice.
03:23I was in Lisbon, and I didn't watch the television, because I hate expectations.
03:29And my son and my husband, one of my sons, the oldest one, were in the house with my husband,
03:37and they came up to the room where I was and said...
03:45And I had this strange feeling, because the Oscars for us in Brazil, for an actor,
03:52is something so far away.
03:55To imagine that a movie spoken in Portuguese, the nomination of my mother already,
04:01was a kind of miracle.
04:03I never thought it would be possible.
04:05And then suddenly, we were working this film, making people watch it.
04:09It was a heavy, heavy work.
04:11We could feel that there was a good feeling around the film.
04:15And it was really a surprise.
04:18It's like living in a parallel life, that it's not really yours.
04:23And 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.
04:40You 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,
04:59was Podaz and Pelidiaz and Donkey Skin with Catherine Deneuve.
05:05It'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 is doing this kind of commotion in Brazil.
06:09This film became, with the nomination, the possibility of a nomination,
06:14with Walter again directing a film in Brazil about such a beautiful story
06:19that nobody knew that caused the commotion in Brazil.
06:23Because not me, the film.
06:26People went to the movie theaters again.
06:30And people were crying in the movie theaters and proud.
06:34This film awakes the pride in culture, in cinema.
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