Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres has launched a press release and apology for being concerned in a TV present up to now the place she carried out in blackface.
The actor received a Golden Globe for her efficiency as a mom trying to find her disappeared politician husband in I’m Nonetheless Right here, turning into the primary Brazilian to win in an appearing class. Torres has been nominated for Greatest Actress on the forthcoming Academy Awards, the place the movie can be nominated for Greatest Image.
In a press release to Deadline, Torres addressed her look within the information comedy present Fantástico, the place she appeared in a sketch taking part in a number of characters, all in blackface. The sketch aired on the long-running present in 2008.
She stated: “Nearly twenty years in the past, I appeared in blackface in a comedy sketch from a Brazilian TV present. I’m very sorry for this. I’m making this assertion as it is necessary for me to deal with this swiftly to keep away from additional ache and confusion”.
She stated: “At the moment, regardless of the efforts of Black actions and organizations, the attention of the racist historical past and symbolism of blackface hadn’t but entered the mainstream public consciousness in Brazil. Thanks to raised cultural understanding and vital however incomplete achievements on this century, it’s very clear now in our nation and in all places that blackface is rarely acceptable”.
She concluded: “This is a vital dialog we should proceed to have with each other with a purpose to forestall the normalization of racist practices then and now. As an artist and international citizen, and from my open coronary heart, I stay attentive and dedicated to the pursuit of important modifications wanted to stay in a world free from inequality and racism”.
The information comes after one other Oscar-nominated efficiency, Adrien Brody in The Brutalist, got here underneath scrutiny when it was revealed AI was used to change strains delivered in Hungarian. Director Brady Corbet has since defended the method.