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| Ugly side to heart-throb |
Peta Hellard - April 05, 2007 12:00am
Article from: Herald-Sun
HIS good looks have helped make him a household name in his native Brazil and an up-and-coming Hollywood heart-throb, but Rodrigo Santoro has thrown away all vanity.
The handsome man who played the office hunk in Love Actually and Nicole Kidman's lover in Baz Luhrmann's pricey Chanel No.5 commercial is almost unrecognisable in Spartan battle epic 300, inspired by the graphic novel by Sin City creator Frank Miller.
The observation prompts a big smile and a heart-felt thank you from Santoro.
``It was about five hours in make-up every day,'' he says with a laugh.
``I was actually salivating when I saw the picture (of the character), when I saw the drawings, because I thought, this is amazing -- this is a great opportunity to play something completely different from everything I've done before.''
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| SANTORO: 'I'M NOT TALENTED ENOUGH TO PRODUCE FILMS' |
300 actor RODRIGO SANTORO has no plans to branch out into producing movies anytime soon - because he doesn't think he is "talented" enough to do it. The sexy star - who stars as PAULO in hit US TV drama LOST - likes the idea of becoming a producer, but admits that's not where his heart lies. He says, "I thought about producing things for people that I admire as artists just to try and make it happen, but I'm not quite a talented producer I think, I'm not really into it. "But maybe I will one day just to make it happen."
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| Man on Man Action |
It's Spartan hotties versus Persian trannies in Zack Snyder's far-too-faithful Frank Miller adaptation
Long ago there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing militaristic psychopaths called the Spartans. They lived beneath a copper-colored sky, on a copper-colored land, amid copper-colored fields, in copper-colored homes made from copper-colored stone. Legend has it they would outline their copper-colored pecs and abs with ash to enhance their manly buffness, yet these were men of action and honor, not "philosophers and boy-lovers" like their namby-pamby rivals the Athenians.
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| INTERVIEW: Rodrigo Santoro for '300' |
By Brad Brevet | Tuesday, March 6, 2007
In the press notes Rodrigo Santoro speaks of his character in 300, Xerxes, a self-proclaimed God-King of Persia saying, "He's rich, he's arrogant, he's a very unstable megalomaniac. He just wants to conquer the world. His ambition is unlimited. He wants glory; he wants victory; he wants eternal fame. Underneath all that wanting, though, he's ultimately weak and very insecure." He actually used some of those exact same words in my interview with him, particularly"megalomaniac." However, this is a great description of his character, he is menacing but at the same time you get that sense of instability inside him and Santoro was able to bring that out.
Since his work in 300 Rodrigo has been cast in ABC's "Lost" and while he can say very little about that we talked about both 300 and "Lost" with the Brazilian actor. Take a read and learn how he transformed from a small time actor into a God-King.
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| Divided we fall |
By ALLAN KOAY
Based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel that recounts the battle of Thermopylae and brought to the big screen, this time round by American director Zack Snyder, 300 may not turn out the way it’s all hyped up to be.
If there is any movie this year that will split audiences equally between the politically-correct crowd and the rabid fanboys, 300 is it. At the recently-concluded 57th Berlin International Film Festival, critics and journalists booed the film at a press screening, there was applause amidst the jeering.
There was no shortage of walkouts too. But it was also reported (a Warner Bros publicity report, no less) that the film’s actual world premiere at the Berlinale Palast ended with a standing ovation.
Fanboys may love the film and applaud its stylish visuals and testosterone-pumping action while disregarding its deeper currents of xenophobia, but it’s hard to brush aside the on-screen silliness that just grows in magnitude. When the rhinoceros appeared (don’t ask), the journalist next to me was giggling. And by the time the elephants came on, she was laughing out loud.
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| Santoro e Cicarelli causam frisson na Sapucaí |
Ator e apresentadora chegaram ao camarote da Brahma acompanhados de namorados para assistir ao primeiro dia de desfile do Grupo Especial do carnaval do Rio
Monica Ciarelli e Jaqueline Faride
RIO - O ator Rodrigo Santoro e a apresentadora Daniela Cicarelli provocaram frisson ao chegarem ao camarote da Brahma, na avenida Marquês de Sapucaí, durante o primeiro dia de desfile do Grupo Especial do carnaval do Rio.
Acompanhado da namorada Ellen Jabour, Santoro foi um dos poucos famosos a chegar em um carro de passeio ao invés das vans que traziam a maior parte dos convidados.
Ele falou pouco sobre sua atual carreira internacional, e disse apenas que seu futuro na série de TV americana Lost "é um mistério" e que ainda não sabe se um dia deixará o Brasil para apostar na carreira no exterior. O ator foi indagado também se pretende se casar este ano com a apresentadora Ellen, ao que ele respondeu "ainda não, no futuro"
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Sorce: Estadão
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| Rodrigo Santoro: "Nem tudo é músculo nesta vida" |
O ator Rodrigo Santoro, um dos "conjuntos" de músculo e fibra que incorporam os guerreiros de "Os 300 de Esparta", a história em quadrinhos para o cinema de Zack Snyder, defendeu no Festival de Berlim que nem tudo é questão de físico nesta vida.
Evidentemente, os trezentos espartanos que acompanharam o rei Leônidas na batalha das Termópilas e seus rivais, as imensamente superiores tropas persas do rei Xerxes, devem ter sido imponentes massas musculares e assim se recria no filme, baseado na história em quadrinhos de mesmo nome de Frank Miller.
No entanto, seu papel pediu "muito mais que presença física, houve um processo interno para interpretar o personagem de um ser que se acha acima do mundo".
Santoro participou do Festival de Berlim junto com seu companheiro de filmagens, Gérard Butler, e seu diretor, Snyder, cuja transposição para o cinema da história em quadrinhos de Miller foi projetada na seção oficial, embora fora do concurso.
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| DIRECTOR HECTOR BABENCO LOOKS AT PRISON LIFE BRAZILIAN STYLE |
By Brad Balfour - May 19, 2004
Having returned from an exile of several years from filmmaking, Argentinean born/Brazil based director Hector Babenco reemerges with CARANDIRU, his fictionalized take on life inside the notorious São Paulo prison-which is now getting released in the United States after it had various premieres at various international festivals such as the Toronto Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival.
With Hector Babenco (left) is Rodrigo Santoro, the actor who plays one of the prisoners, "Lady Di" --a noted Brazilian actor who was in "LOVE ACTUALLY" – Photo by Tom Lau
Through an ensemble of prisoner stories, the film details arguably the world's worst penal environment as it crescendoed into infamous 1992 riot that left 111 prisoners massacred and forced serious reforms within Brazil's prison system.
As Babenco explained in accented English, he didn't want to make just another prison documentary. "I felt I was dealing with something from the real characters who are human; in some way I stole [my characters] from the real people in prison. The film's story is based on a real doctor who spent from 1 pm to end of day-ending at 8 or 9 o clock at night doing medicine for free. These are the stories he heard. He never questioned them, whether they were true or not. He never judged them."
Doctor Drauzio Varella's real life experiences from the time he spent inside this dreadful State penitentiary, while doing work on AIDS prevention, provided the material that became a book and inspired this film. While there he found hundreds of convicts living under degrading conditions.
Babenco spoke with the doctor to get a feel for what he went through. "He spent 14 years in there, and felt it was his responsibility to do medicine in there. He said to me, 'You know Hector, I got a chance to do medicine under laboratory conditions as if it were the turn of century.' He had to look at the people, listen to their complaints and do an immediate diagnosis; many had the same problems, rashes in skin, congestion in the lungs but what was fascinating was how starved these people were for someone to listen to their own story, real or invented. It was part of process of redoing the way they wanted to be seen or accepted through their own version of what they did. Remember, these are very bad tough guys; they did not just steal a Coca Cola. They're in for decades to account for what they did. I decided to make a movie in the same spirit of the guy who wrote book -- not to be judgmental or denounce them."
It's not the first time that Babenco has handled characters outside the confines of established society. In his acclaimed 1985 film, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison-, the former a homosexual found guilty of immoral behavior and the other a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on his situation. As they cope with their situation, the two come to understand and respect each another.
In fact, Brazil's dark side has garnered not only Babenco's attention but that of other filmmakers as well. Both the fiction film CITY OF GOD and the documentary BUS 174 draw on the lives of the very poor from the slums-in this case, Rio de Janeiro-and the tragic consequences of such a life.
THE PRISONERS OF THE IRON BARS-SELF PORTRAITS, a film that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival along with CARANDIRU, was assembled by director Paulo Sacramento, from footage shot by the actual prisoners from Carandiru who attended a filmmaking workshop. Seeing the two films together provided an eerie mirror into a world few want to experience.
Said Babenco, "These films show the inadequacies of the global economy. Brazil is a very schizophrenic country. Two personas exist in the same place -- one that pays the debt and dances according to the rules of international economy, so maybe 15% of the population live like they live on the upper east side of new York, and the other 85% live like in they were in the middle ages. What comes out of this contrast is very provocative.
"For storytellers, this is intriguing. Who wants to tell the story of people who live on [New York's] upper east side? You American can do that much better than us. Without sounding pretentious--I am not going save the world or cause a revolution-- but films like mine might give a little clarity in a world with such painful contrasts."
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| Omelete |
Muito se falou sobre a participação do ator Rodrigo Santoro (Carandiru) na continuação de As Panteras, com estréia nacional marcada para esta sexta-feira. Muitos boatos tomaram conta da mídia - chegou a ser publicado em jornais e sites brasileiros que o ator global viveria um dos papéis principais do filme. Mas a verdade é que seu personagem, que aparece com certo destaque no trailer final, tem lá sua importância para a trama, mas entra mudo e sai calado. No entanto, ao que parece, Santoro não está nem aí para isso. "Desde o início me preocupei em esclarecer as coisas, porque a dimensão real do trabalho estava sendo exacerbada, criando falsas expectativas. Eu sempre avisei que se tratava de um papel pequeno, que eu estava no filme para cumprir uma determinada função que, no meu entender, cumpri muito bem. O personagem é exatamente o mesmo que estava na minha primeira leitura do roteiro", diz o ator.
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| Stuart Little 2 - Terra Kids |
Esta é a segunda vez que você faz a voz do pequeno Stuart, como foi a experiência?
Não sou dublador. Me aventurei. É uma volta ao mundo de crianças. Voltei a ser criança. Foi prazeroso.
Quais foram as dificuldades?
Não estar em cena com o outro ator é complicado. É difícil não ter o corpo para se expressar. A voz é o único instrumento para transmitir a emoção.
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| Carandiru - Zoando.net |
Rodrigo, como é sair de Petrópolis e fazer sucesso em todo o mundo?
Pô cara, primeiro eu me sinto orgulhoso de ser daqui, adoro essa cidade, nasci e fui criado aqui até meus 18 anos... O sucesso é só uma consequência da história, eu procuro fazer o meu trabalho da melhor forma possível e o sucesso é sempre bom!
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| Rodrigo Santoro fala sobre Carandiru |
Num papel como esse, pelo qual tem sido muito elogiado, como fica sua imagem de galã de novelas? Até que ponto essa imagem é importante na sua carreira?
O meu foco não é esse. Procuro fazer o meu trabalho da melhor maneira e sempre acrescentando algo mais, aquilo que se adquire com experiência.
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| Santoro leaves fame in Brazil to find 'Lost' |
By William Keck, USA TODAY
HONOLULU — It has been just three days since Brazilian film superstar Rodrigo Santoro arrived in Hawaii from Rio de Janeiro to begin work as new castaway Paulo on ABC's Lost (9 p.m. ET/PT). The day before, he visited the Lost production office for a wardrobe fitting and met Kiele Sanchez, the woman cast as his love interest, Nikki. He describes her as "sweet," but adds that "her character is going to surprise a lot of people."
What is most surprising about these two cast additions is how little they have appeared on-screen.
Santoro and Sanchez made their debut two weeks ago as never-before-seen crash survivors. They have a bit more to do tonight on a treacherous trek through the jungle that will leave someone dead.
His limited role has proven a challenge for someone whose fame in Brazil is on par with that of Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe.
Santoro was born in the mountain town of Petropolis, about an hour's drive from Rio, to Italian-born engineer Francesco and Brazilian artist Maria Jose.
He moved to Rio to study journalism before getting involved in the city's street-theater scene. Television parts led to starring roles in such features as 2001's Behind the Sun and 2003's Carandiru, in which he played a transsexual named Lady Di. He won Brazil's equivalent of the Oscar for playing a mental patient in 2001's Brainstorm.
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| Capricho Nov 06: Rodrigo Santoro - desejado além das fronteiras |
Ele é o ator brasileiro mais prestigiado atualmente no mundo e está pronto para atuar na série americana Lost. Como se não bastasse, é lindo, elegante, inteligente e vive um grande amor com a apresentadora Ellen Jabour
Não há hoje, no mundo, ator brasileiro com a bola mais cheia do que Rodrigo Santoro. Prestes a completar 31 anos - faz aniversário no dia 22 deste mês -, ele está num patamar sonhado por dez entre dez atores. Há três anos, estreou em Hollywood com As Panteras - Detonando. Fez uma ponta, sem uma única fala, mas arrancou elogios rasgados das três beldades do longa: Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu e Drew Barrymore.
É claro que a beleza - 79 quilos muito bem distribuídos em 1,89 metro - ajuda, mas Santoro é um ator que encara com seriedade qualquer papel. Uma unanimidade entre os diretores que já trabalharam com ele. Recém-contratado para atuar na série americana Lost, um dos maiores sucessos da televisão mundial atualmente, o brasileiro chega para ser galã. Não um galã certinho, deixam claro os produtores da série, Damon Lindelof e Carlton Cuse.
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