Cinema Tarantino’s character who inspired the villain of I’m Still Here Luiz Bertazzo, who plays Agent Schneider in Walter Salles’ film, reveals the influence of Tarantino’s universe that helped him build the dark aspect of his character By Editorial Staff

Luiz Bertazzothe actor who plays Schneider, an agent of the dictatorship who marks the turning point in the plot of I’m Still Hererevealed an unusual inspiration for the role – based on a Quentin Tarantino.

According to the actor, his character – an agent of the dictatorship who occupies the Paiva house when Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) is taken for interrogation – he has had careful treatment of Walter Salles and the casting preparer, Amanda Gabriel:

“Walter had a very concrete idea about this scene in the house. When we rehearsed, for the first time, the curtains closing, I understood the feeling of destruction of that home, of that dream of Brazil”, he said in an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone Brazil. “The horror had to be precisely in the feeling of danger due to what was not explicit, this is another of the torture mechanisms used by the agents of the dictatorship: ‘the lack of answers’.

Despite being based on a real figure recorded in the book I’m Still Herefrom Marcelo Rubens PaivaBertazzo lists at least one character from the drama that inspired him in Schneider’s construction: the Nazi colonel Hans Landa, played by Christoph Walz in Inglourious Basterds (2009), by Quentin Tarantino.

“If the military were done in a violent and brutal way, it could alienate the viewer, make it a cliché, an allegory of violence. The closer it is to everyday life in that house, the more dangerous they would seem”, he says.

Read the full interview with Luiz Bertazzo for Rolling Stone Brazilhere.