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Oscar Nominee Wagner Moura Can’t Help but Speak His Mind

The next few weeks are going to be busy for Wagner Moura, the Brazilian actor who recently landed his first career nod for his leading role in The Secret Agent. He’s already made history as the first Brazilian to land a lead actor nomination at the Oscars, and if he wins, he’ll be the first Brazilian to ever win an acting Oscar. Thankfully, Moura had time to join Little Gold Men from his home in Los Angeles. The Golden Globe winner spoke to VF’s Rebecca Ford about the personal connection he has to his character Armando, why he feels the need to talk about politics, and what it was like to meet one of his acting idols. (Warning: The interview touches on the film’s ending.)

Elsewhere in HWD, Jafar Panahi explains how he risked everything to create It Was Just an Accident in the latest conversation for our “What Is Cinema?” series; Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal speak with Jenny Lumet about reimagining Dog Day Afternoon for Broadway; we have the full list of winners at the Directors Guild of America Awards; and Hadley Hall Meares dissects Robert Evans’s legendary memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture.

Thrill of Brazil

Wagner Moura, the Brazilian star of The Secret Agent on politics, a World Cup win vs. an Oscar win, and his greatest fear: “When facts don’t matter—when people start to live in different mental worlds, in different realities—then how can you build a bridge?”

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In Plain Sight

In the next installment of Vanity Fair’s What Is Cinema? series, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi reflects on the misfortunes that almost ruined his movie—and his career.

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Let It Rip

Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal, the longtime friends and costars on The Bear, get real with Jenny Lumet, whose father directed the 1975 New Hollywood classic, Dog Day Afternoon.

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The Award Goes to…

One Battle After Another, The Studio, and The Pitt were among the winners at the 78th annual Directors Guild of America Awards.

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Three Sides

The man behind Chinatown, The Godfather, Rosemary’s Baby, and endless anecdotes recalls his high highs and low lows with characteristic swagger in The Kid Stays in the Picture, his peerless autobiography.

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