Selton Mello and Fernanda Torres have known each other for decades. Mello had a guest arc on Torres’ Brazilian show “Normal People,” which ran from 2001-2003, before achieving massive fame as both an actor and filmmaker. He had also worked with her brother, filmmaker Cláudio Torres, and her mother, legendary actor Fernanda Montenegro — perhaps best-known to American audiences for her Oscar-nominated turn in Walter Salles’ 1998 film “Central Station.” Says Mello, “I literally feel like part of the family.”
Now the pair are playing husband and wife Rubens and Eunice Paiva in Salles’ acclaimed drama “I’m Still Here,” based on the memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva. Paiva is
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