“I ended up in the hospital”, reveals Jorge Paz about The Hijacking of Flight 375

After participating in productions such as Marighellalong Wagner MouraIt is Cangaço Novowhich became one of Prime Video’s most-watched series in 2023, Jorge Paz is back on the big screen in the impressive The hijacking of Flight 375which is now showing in cinemas across Brazil.

In the production, which is based on an impressive real event from 1988, Peace interprets Nonatowho hijacks a plane in mid-air to bring it down over the Planalto Palace and kill the then president of the country, José Sarney. A Rolling Stone Brazil interviewed the film’s cast and the actor revealed that, due to the several stressful scenes he had to do, he ended up in the hospital:

“There was a day when I woke up and my body [estava] shivering. On the last day, I ended up in the hospital. The crowd was getting ready to celebrate and I went to the hospital”said Paz. “I think there’s no way to fake madness, tension, and stay there on the surface. I have to feel it, my body has to vibrate with it.”

According to the actor, the most intense scenes between his character and that of Danilo Grangheia (Brotherhood), who played the commander Murilo, were recorded in the last week of filming the film. Spending twelve hours a day with your colleague, at a certain point, Peace he saw reality become confused with fiction and felt genuine anger towards his colleague:

“There was a day when the performance of Danilo it made me angry. I even told him: ‘Wow, there was a time when you said some things to me, like Murilothat really made me want to punch you'”remembered Peace. “Because it really moved. For me, it was crazy. There was a moment when my body wasn’t understanding anything anymore.”

For Grangheiashot these scenes in the final days of recording, when the cast was already exhausted, bringing more textures to their performance: “The whole circumstance helped us. The tiredness, the heat. This whole adverse situation helped us understand places in ourselves that we didn’t even know [que existiam]”analyzed.

“It was a very unusual meeting of things that we had studied, had prepared, with things that also came up during this crazy week of a plane spinning there and us inside it”added Grangheia.

About The hijacking of Flight 375

In The hijacking of Flight 375which takes place in 1988, a flight with more than 100 people on board is hijacked mid-air by Nonato (Jorge Paz), a man frustrated with the difficulties caused by a crisis in the country and who wants to crash the plane into the Palácio do Planalto, with the intention of killing the then president José Sarney.

Upon learning of the situation, the pilot Murilo (Danilo Grangheia) needs to find a way to calm the hijacker to save the souls on board. In a moment of desperation, for the first time in aviation history, he performs a stunning and heroic maneuver that forever changes the lives of everyone on Flight 375.

In addition to Jorge Paz It is Danilo Grangheiathe film’s cast also includes Roberta Gualda (The King of TV), Gabriel Godoy (Men?), Cesar Mello (The Shepherd and the Guerrilla), Juliana Alves (Save Yourself Who Can), Wagner Santisteban (Time does not stop), Arianne Botelho (All’s Well for Next Christmas) It is Diego Montez (Lost), between others.

Marcus Baldini (Bruna Surfistinha) drives The hijacking of Flight 375 from the script written by Lusa Silvestre (Stomach) It is Mikael de Albuquerque (Glory and Grace) based on the work of more than a decade by the researcher Constâncio Viana. A Rolling Stone Brazil Have you seen the film and you can see what we think clicking here. Watch the trailer: