Jordan Klepper

There's a dead body that is there that the police aren't going to deal with.

They haven't dealt with for days.

And the police come and they shake you down for money.

For money.

And it just established this tension that felt very resonant right now in a time where we're all feeling a certain tension about the government and what have you.

And this film was able to sort of sum up this feeling within seconds.

I felt like that felt very fresh and new to me to see that represented on screen.

Yeah, it's a scene that sort of establishes the logic of a dictatorship.

I would even say the logic of Brazil, because the dictatorship ended in 85, but it didn't really end in 85.

I mean, the echoes of the dictatorship are still there.

When we elected a far right president in 2018, that man was sort of like a physical manifestation of those echoes.

Yes.

You talk about it.

I mean, Bolsonaro, you've had a relationship with, at least in terms of how you guys... You dated for a while, right?

I received this one of the... This film has been, you know, we've been having an amazing career since Cannes.

It's been great.

And one of the awards that we received, and I went up there to thank, I thanked him.

I was like, thank you, because without him, we would never had done this film, because this film comes from the director, Cláudio Mendonça Filho, and I sharing our perplexity over what was going on in Brazil from 2018 to 2022, when this man,

elected democratically, but he came to bring back the values of the dictatorship to Brazil in the 21st century.

So we were perplexed, and we were calling each other to go, like, how can we...