The writer MARCELO RUBENS PAIVA Praised actor Selton Mello on Tuesday, who played his father, Rubens Paiva, in the movie “I’m still here” . The author of the book that inspired the feature of Walter Salles revealed that he was surprised by details in Mello’s performance.
“I only speak of Selton. Everything, the voice, the smile, the nicknames, the way to smoke and to communicate. There are no images of my father . My father has nothing, ”he said in an interview with TV Cultura’s Provocio.
The writer said he detailed some characteristics of Rubens to the actor throughout the production. “Maybe I spoke well in detail how he was and he was captured. [..] And then he set up the character in an enlightened way, ”he said.
“Selton is an illuminated guy . I was always a fan of Selton, I have known him a long time ago. And Fernanda is stunning, she is divine. But I need to make an important parenthesis. She was directed. He all the time [Walter Salles] He was going to her ear and said some little things, ”added Marcelo Rubens Paiva.
The story of “I’m still here” takes place in the 1970s, in the most intense period of the military dictatorship in Brazil, and follows the trajectory of the Paiva family, which lived in Rio de Janeiro.
In January 1971, the military took former deputy Rubens Paiva, played in the film by Selton Mello. Since then, Eunice (Fernanda Torres) and her children have had to rebuild their lives amid the struggle for justice after the disappearance.
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