Jordan Klepper

It was a heavy dictatorship.

It was a heavy dictatorship, right?

From 64 to 85.

I would say right off the bat, I didn't know much about this movie going into it.

And there's a scene that kicks it off where you drive into a gas station.

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.