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Wagner Moura on ‘The Secret Agent’ and Confronting Authoritarianism, From Bolsonaro to Trump: Zurich
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The Hollywood Reporter
For Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent is a homecoming in more ways than one.
For Moura, the echoes of Brazil’s dictatorship and the dangers of authoritarianism repeating itself, fed directly into The Secret Agent.
And [The Secret Agent director] Kleber also suffered consequences for the things that he was saying.
I know The Secret Agent isn’t a biography, but were there real stories you researched and drew on for the movie?
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura The Secret Agent – TIFF – THR Video – 2025Do you see direct parallels to what’s happening in the U.S. with Trump?