Maybe, because of her Brazilian genes, actress Alice Braga looks good even when sweaty after a jungle trek. And with the sweltering heat plaguing everyone, a lesson could be learned from Braga — now the go-to girl for sci-fi action thrillers. This time, as the bust-ass female lead in Predators — with co-star Adrien Brody — IDF sniper Isabelle takes charge of a pack of errant mercs, para-military, rebels and hardcore criminals who are forced to band together to survive after they are mysteriously chute-dropped into an unknown tropical forest on a distant world.

Chosen because they kill without conscience, these warriors, some trained, some not, battle a pack of 10-foot-tall Predators who are hunting them as prey. In this vast jungle, these human predators must learn who, or what, they’re up against, and test the limits of their abilities, knowledge and wits in a battle of kill or be killed. Read more

I just found this photoshoot/behind-the-scenes Alice did last month, for an interview to “Isto É Gente” magazine. Beautiful!

This video was done to brazilian magazine Marie Claire (so the video is in portuguese), and Alice talk about her beauty secrets, and how it’s NOT related with make up but with some exercises in legs and arms, being most natural as possible, finding the right eyebrows shape, and taking care of the alimentation.

ShockTillYouDrop.com also recently visited Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas where they got to talk to the cast and crew and have posted their report in three parts. You can read the first part, which includes an in-depth chat with creature effects supervisor Greg Nicotero, here. The second part, featuring interviews with director Nimrod Antal, writer/producer Robert Rodriguez and his producing partner Elizabeth Avellan, is available here. And the third part, featuring interviews with Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Oleg Taktarov, Topher Grace, and Walton Goggins is up here. Read below the interview with Alice:

Shock Till You Drop: So jumping right on in, can you talk a little bit about who you play in the film?

Alice Braga: I play a character named Isabelle. She’s a sniper. She’s, we can say a tough cookie. I can say that she’s sweet inside, but tough outside, but just to do her craft more than anything. It’s funny, Nimrod, the director, he gave me a little book that talks about snipers. It’s kind of a manual that snipers use in the Army. It talks a lot about how they prepare and what are the qualities that a sniper must have. One of the qualities, like being really focused and you cannot be emotional. You cannot take emotion from your work. You cannot look at the other – to think about the target and not that. So it’s hard to kind of say because specific things about a sniper, but mainly knowing that information, it tells a lot about how a sniper is and that who she is, at the same time, a strong woman, so balancing her career and her personality. Does that make sense, what I just said? (Laughs)

Shock: Can you talk about being the only woman character in the ensemble cast? Then, plus being the only woman on set?

Braga: It’s awesome. (Laughs) It’s really cool. No, I’m kidding. It’s really nice because it’s only eight characters and my character, funny enough, is the one that is always trying to grab everyone together and like, reuniting everyone and stop the fights and saying that we have strength in numbers instead of being alone fighting these creatures, together we can be stronger. It’s really interesting because the boys, I call them my boys, I call them the boys, they’ve been amazing with me. They protect me and we create things together. Sometimes I’m like – I need girls around me because I’ve found myself like, talking about cars and about girls and I’m like, “I need girls around me.” (Laughs) But it’s really wonderful. As an actress it’s been a great experience. I’m having fun. I did different films. Like, “City of God,” there’s a lot of boys around me as well. So it’s been really cool. It’s funny, interesting enough, there are not many girls in the crew. In Hawaii it was even less, it was only me and the script supervisor and here we still have a little bit more, but still a lot of men. It’s fun. I’m loving every second of it. I think we created a unit that is really strong and I think we kind of brought that as actors and as characters I think we got that unity of it.

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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.

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

Latina actresses have never been hotter in Hollywood: Eva Mendes, Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria… and now Alice Braga
Martyn Palmer

The chances are you will know Alice Braga’s beautiful face even if, as yet, her name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. In films such as City of God, I Am Legend and her latest, Blindness, with her raven-black hair, dark flashing eyes and flawless, honeyed complexion, she is compelling.

And she can act, too, often taking roles that others would be wary of. In Blindness she plays a call girl while another movie, Lower City, called for the kind of explicit sex scenes that would send most American actresses off to lie down in a darkened room before hitting the speed dial to their agent or therapist. Braga, on the other hand, relishes the challenge. “As a girl I’m shy, but once I’m in character, I don’t mind at all,” she says. “In Lower City I played a prostitute who falls in love with two best friends. She was a really powerful, strong character. I have to understand her, but I don’t have to judge her. As for nudity and myself, well, yes, I would be shy. I’m always covering myself up.”

At the moment, Alice (pronounced Ah-lee-say) Braga is able to flit between her native Brazil and California or even Cannes, where Blindness received its world premiere, with hardly anyone knowing who she is. “In Brazil, they’re far more interested in the guys from the soap operas,” she says in a voice that is low and husky, heavily accented and tinged, at times, with American inflections. “They go crazy for them. Absolutely nuts. But for me, I pretty much walk down the street and one or two people might say ‘hi’ but it’s not crazy.” Read more

Well, you know Alice never did a soap opera before. Her first great job was a movie, her first little job was a movie, and she’s in the movies business since then.

Tonight, during the VMB 2008, she did a short interview talking about her desire to do something for tv. Specially a soap opera.

“TV is something beautiful in our country. I would love to make a novel, or something.”

While she don’t receive a invite to do something on TV, she continue working on movies. She’s currently filming “Cabeça à Prêmio”, and was in São Paulo just for the VMB’s party.

Be here is special to me. Seven years ago, I was working here, in the party. Today, I’m presenting an award.