Fernanda Torres Talks About the True Story Behind "I'm Still Here"

that was yeah that was scene from the critically acclaimed film I'm still here starring Our Guest Fernanda Torres all right this film is a based on a true story um it's very gripping it's very compelling um tell our audience what it's about so that's the story there was this Congress man uh we had the kud during the in 64 in 70 the dictatorship the military dictatorship got really really violent in Brazil and this man who was like from the his progress his family a normal family like one day those policemen arrives takes him torture and

kill this man and next day they take the wife with the 15-year-old girl and they are taking to interrogation and he never returned I mean they they never returned the body so the story is about this woman who is Left Behind with five children during a dictatorship and it's a real woman that it took her 26 years to get the death certificate and who wrote the book that this film is based on was the son and in the film you see it's a young boy and then one day at the late age she dies with

Alzheimer and he just he thought about that she was losing her memory and also the country was losing the memory of dictator of what so he decides to tell the story yeah and this woman after everything she goes back to University to law University and she becomes a great defender of Human Rights and of the indigenous rights and so she's responsible for a lot of indigenous reserves that nowadays are saving the rainforest and the Amazon forest what an incredible woman she's unbelievable yeah we teased her the commercial into the commercial that your mother is connected

to this film what are the connections she plays Y at the old age oh my God and a lot of people are like thinking that it was me with the makeup on oh my gosh that's amazing because we look very much alike how incredible had you guys worked together before uh many times we did theater we did cheze of we did uh a na uh we did so many things films and we can work as separate and also as like it's a plus that we have and also you know you won the Golden Globe for

this role the director okay so so follow me the director that directed this picture directed your mother in her Golden Globe nominated nominated performance 26 years ago the Central State yeah I mean that all means something no totally and before Central Station I did uh foreign land with him so have been working together for a long time and that was so beautiful because that's it this film has so many symbologies you have the writer Marcelo who wrote the story of his mother and also you have me and my mother and have vter and vter the

director and so it's about the story but it's so so that's what I said in the Golden Globes about art enduring in time even in difficult moments well congratulations to have you I'm still here is limited release starting tomorrow