Cinemavalentina Herszage about I’m still here: ‘We always believed a lot in the movie’

In the skin of Vera Paivaone of the daughters of Eunice and Rubens Paiva in I’m still here, Valentina Herszage (Kill me please) arrived at the Oscar, the biggest awards of cinema, just 27 years old, but after a long time of a career began still in childhood.

For the actress, however, the award for best international film for the feature – which arrives at the Globe catalog from this Sunday, April 6 – it was just a consecration of what, when performing the feature, she and her castmates and team already knew it would be a big milestone in national cinema.

“We always believed a lot in the movie. It was a very well received movie in Brazil, there were almost six million people who went to the movie theaters to watch the movie. (…) Then the thing started to spread around the world.”states Herszazage In an interview with Rolling Stone Brazil.

“Of course we had a crowd for us to take this award. But what we were conquering along the way in this trajectory was already so valuable, so precious, that I think the Oscar is, in fact, like itself as itself Fernanda [Torres, intérprete de Eunice no filme] He says, the final moment of this race. There were almost 40 national and international awards. I think the biggest prize was to conquer the world through a Brazilian history “complements.

Another achievement of I’m still herefor Herszazageit was the opportunity to arouse the interest of Brazilians in national cinema: “I think there were a lot of sleeping people about the movies, who hadn’t been to movie theaters for a long time, because I didn’t want to watch Brazilian movies and I think I’m still here He rescued a lot of people and presented to many, and many generations, our cinema through a Brazilian history, a real story “evaluates.

The actress also believes that the phenomenon should extend to the debut of I’m still here No Globoplay: “I talked to a lot of people who saw more than once and others who wanted to watch. So, I think it has everything to be a success, yes. The movie being in the palm of our hand is interesting.”finishes.

What is the story of I’m still here?

Based on the book of the same name of MARCELO RUBENS PAIVA, I’m still hereis set in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s, amid the military dictatorship, and tells the story of Eunice (FERNANDA TORRES, Tapas & Kisses), mother of five, who engages in an endless search for the truth after her husband, Rubens (Selton Mello, The Auto da Compadecida 2), be brought by police to the landscape and disappear.

In addition to FERNANDA TORRES, Selton Mello and Antonio Saboiathe feature still has Fernanda Montenegro (Invisible life), MAEVE JINKINGS (Toll), Humberto Carrão (Marighella), Marjorie Estiano (Under pressure), CAMILA MARDILA (What time does she come back?), Antonio Saboia (Private desert) and, among others, Charles Fricks (Elite Troop 2: The enemy is now another). Watch the trailer:

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