A lot has been written in regards to the many controversies this awards season. How have these swirls of controversies affected you?
I’ve been working a lot on the movie’s marketing campaign, it’s superhuman. I journey for seven hours right here, 5 hours there, 20 hours, doing screenings and Q&As. The movie by no means had cash for giant billboards; it was a man-to-man, guerilla battle. And outdoors of Brazil, it hadn’t been launched earlier than January, so individuals solely heard about it from festivals or particular screenings. After which there was the shock of the Golden Globes, however we didn’t even have time to have fun as a result of LA was on hearth the subsequent day and I needed to evacuate. In the course of that tragedy, you obtain one thing fantastic, however you progress on—there is no such thing as a time.
It’s a brand new manner, with the violence and energy of the web. Brazil could be very, very sturdy within the web. Artists in Brazil needed to be taught to navigate this wild factor over the past 10 years. Artists had been targets of pretend information, of aggressiveness. On the identical time, the web is fantastic for an impartial artist like me, because it permits me to launch my performs and books.
I’m in shock with what occurred. It’s unhappy, it’s actually stunning. However I’m completely towards the hate tradition on the web. I used to be a goal, and I all the time fought towards it.
What do you intend to do after the Oscars?
Sleep. [Laughs.] I wrote a six-part sequence that we’re in offers with, and I wrote a script for a movie. I’ve my life because it all the time was. I don’t know if it’s gonna be totally different. I don’t suppose so.
You’ve had such a wealthy profession. Is there something you continue to wish to do that you just haven’t accomplished?
There’s a brief story by [José Maria de] Eça de Queirós, a Portuguese author from the nineteenth century, that’s a Darwinist model of Genesis. I might like to do it in theater. It’s been an extended venture, and issues hold occurring, however I must do it. It’s unbelievable, one of the vital lovely issues I’ve ever learn.
