INTERVIEW WITH ANTONIO FAGUNDES (CONT'D)

Living most of your time in São Paulo, what was it like shooting on location in Rio de Janeiro?
Rio is the perfect setting for this love story. BOSSA NOVA brings back a time in Rio without city pollution or violence, that is, a Rio as we all knew it. Besides this love affair, the film has several other very funny parallel subplots, and they are all very funny.

How did such an international cast and crew get along and communicate on the set?
All in all, BOSSA NOVA is an international film. And the set reflected this quality in a very positive fashion. We spoke English with Amy Irving and Stephen Tobolowsky, Spanish with Argentine actor Alberto de Mendoza, who plays my father. The director of photography was French. This melting pot created a very amusing internal dynamics. Often times, we'd start a phrase in our own language and finish it in another, and everyone understood what was being said. Among the cast, this diversity was also present in the different acting approaches. It was a film done with a great sense of humor and with great love, and I'm sure filmgoers will enjoy a delightful, visually beautiful, and entertaining experience.

According to Bruno, you're a innate actor. Do you feel equally at ease in the three medias - motion pictures, theater, and television? My greatest interest is the complexity of the character, always. The easiness with which I transit among medias serves only to accentuate that complexity. I don't think acting is easy - at least, I haven't yet gotten to the point of thinking so. I like discovering new characters, this is the most stimulating aspect of this craft. And this pleasure can give out a false impression of easiness. But it's only an impression.