#wagner-moura

#wagner-moura

"What the fuck? How did that happen?" Actor Wagner Moura was sitting inside a conference room at the Neon offices in Los Angeles, coming to terms with the fact that his new film " The Secret Agent," featuring a performance that made him the first South American to win Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, was also the first Portuguese-speaking role that the proud Brazilian had in over a decade.

Armando Solimões, the mournful-eyed central character played by Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, isn't a government operative, despite the title of the film. He also isn't undercover, exactly, though for most of the first half of the film, the terrific latest from Kleber Mendonça Filho, he goes by the alias of Marcelo Alves. When Armando first rolls up to a gas station on the outskirts of his hometown of Recife