I just found (and translated to english) a interview of Alice to a brazilian portal, UOL, talking about her next movie “Cabeça a Premio”. Also added some on set pictures to the gallery. Enjoy the reading, and the view!
“Be directed by Marco Ricca is very special”, says Alice Braga
Alice Braga acted in blockbusters like “I and the Legend”, in Brazilian, Japanese and Canadian co-production “Blindness”, and also in important local productions as “City of God” and “Milky Way”. In the last one, she work besides Marco Ricca, who invited her to play Eliane, character of “Cabeça a Premio”, his first project as director. Alice talks with exclusivity to UOL Movies, and told how was works with Ricca direction.
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What did you think about Marco as director?
It’s funny, it was the first time an actor direct me in a movie. I guess it’s wonderful, because Marco did a lot of movies, directed some plays. He’s quite notion of set, not only because the movies, but because television. He knows a lot, about camera, about positioning, about language, but also about acting. He’s a great actor. And this is very special, mainly to who’s actor, because he’s not a director only, he knows the right character emotion. And this is very beautiful. I’m finding it amazing, because I was always a huge fan of his work, and being in a position to be directed by him is being very special. I wanted so much to make this movie to be here with him and learn, not just as an actress
but as person, because I admire him a lot.
How was the days here in set?
It was so cool, because people under this project became very friends. A project to be light and pleasurable needs much of the director, and Marco has this energy, he likes people. He always plays with he doesn’t like cinema, he likes people. What matters are the people, not the movie. It’s a great energy. We’re together for almost 3 months, we gone together to Mato Grosso do Sul, Bolivia, and now we’re here in Paulinia. We’re under a beautiful unit, one take care of the other. It makes all things so much easier, and helps a lot when we gonna make some scenes, when we gonna tell the history. The positive point here is the crew union.
How did yo prepared to make your character, Eliane?
I’m based in the book. Read, and re-read many times. Read and re-read the screenplay many times and talked too much with Marco. I wanted to understand what he wanted of her.
What the main difference between filming here in Brazil and in another countries?
Making movies is the same in the whole world. Even a little movie, or a big one, it’s the cameras, the actors, the crew. It’s a team that’s unite to tell a history. The difference between filming here, specially after making this movie, it’s how the crew leads with you. Because it’s the Brazilian way. We’re kind, friend, generous, specially when do this out of our home. This makes the crew our family, and this movie had a lot of this. Out of Brazil, people are friends too, makes families too. But not this way, because Brazilian people are too warm. But in all the rest, making movies is the same in all around the world.
Source: UOL Cinema – August 11, 2008
See here pictures of the set, added to our gallery:
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• Cabeça a Premio (2009) – On Set
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