Exclusive: After scoring a Best Actress Oscar nomination after winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her portrayal of a mother searching for her disappeared politician husband in… I’m still hereTonight, Fernanda Torres makes a decades-old apology on a Brazilian TV show amazing This is starting to show. She played multiple characters in the sitcom, one of which is in blackface.
“Nearly twenty years ago, I appeared in Blackface in a comedy sketch from a Brazilian TV show,” Torres said in a statement. “I am very sorry about this. I am making this statement because it is important to me to address this matter quickly to avoid further pain and confusion.
“At that time, despite the efforts of black movements and organizations, awareness of the racist history and symbolism of blackface had not yet entered the mainstream public consciousness in Brazil. Thanks to better cultural understanding and the important but incomplete achievements of this century, it is now very clear in our country and in Everywhere blackface is never acceptable.
“This is an important conversation we must continue with each other in order to prevent the normalization of racist practices then and now. As an artist and global citizen, and from my open heart, I remain resilient and committed to striving for the vital changes needed to live in a world free of inequality and racism.”
Deadline is always protective of films and artists in the awards midst when things fall through the roof, organically or intentionally, because we believe the biggest awards in Hollywood should be given to nominated work and nothing else. That’s why we felt it was best to let Torres speak his truth and get out in front of this. A clip from the productive world amazing It has nothing to do with Torres’s bickering performance in a film released by Sony Pictures that was also nominated for Best Picture and Best International Film. Torres becomes only the second Brazilian actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, the first being her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated in 1988 for her performance in Central station.
The Sketch Comedy series originally aired 17 years ago on Primetime Weekly amazinga popular three-hour program that has been broadcast on Sundays for the past 50 years. The aforementioned sketch – The Opposite Sex: Family (Father vs. Mother) – mixes scenes, drawings and testimonies from two actors playing multiple roles (Fernanda Torres and a male actor) who address the camera directly with additional information and facts that complement the narrative. The episode’s theme humorously asks who is more important: mother or father?
In the solo scene in question, the mother is separated from her busy routine, which includes waking up early, working, taking care of the children, working, working well to take care of her appearance, facing sexist discrimination from co-workers, studying for her master’s degree and after she returns home, she has to take care of With the kids back and making dinner for the husband who just got back from happy hour. Father says the woman worries a lot.
The mother, named Solange and played by Torres, says she wants to separate, and the father (Luis Carlos) says Solange is tired and needs a housekeeper to help with the work around the house. Housekeeper Dalva [Torres in character with blackface] shows, saying that for all the problems Solange has, she has too — kids, a home to take care of, and a husband to “satisfy.” That at this point, she could not help her employer.
Solange returns and says that she broke up with Luis Carlos and made an agreement with Dalva, giving her half of everything she had. She now has a tidy house, meals ready, and the kids in line. “I became the man of the house,” says Solange. Dalva appears, angry, with a whip in hand and a bag with hamburgers, complaining about Luis Carlos being at home every weekend. She opens his room door to deliver food, and the man complains that he doesn’t like ketchup with pickles. Dalva leaves, murmur.
Dalva says: “My problem now is that Dr. Luis Carlos spends every week in this house and leaves everything a mess! Oh Dr. Luis Carlos, go to hell! Here’s your hamburger!”‘
To which Luis Carlos replies: “Damn, Dalva, don’t you know I hate ketchup and pickles? Are you kidding me…”