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Rodrigo Santoro is a Brazilian actor who’s had an international career in movies like Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Love Actually, 300, Redbelt, Che and The Post Grad Survival Guide.
Rodrigo started his career in telenovelas and ended up with a part in Lost’s third season, as Brazilian cook Paulo.
His role in two-part biopic Che, about Argentinean Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara as Raúl Castro has been highly acclaimed internationally. Listen to Mexican Demián Bichir, playing Fidel Castro, and Santoro in an interview where you can practice your listening skills because it is spoken at medium speed.
Here’s another interview with the cast of Che: Benicio del Toro, Rodrigo Santoro, Demián Bichir and Óscar Jaenada.
Nos vemos prontito.
Posted by adir ferreira
These days I was thinking about my teen years, in the 90’s, when I had to ask my friends in the US to send video tapes of the newest Beverly Hills 90210 that hadn’t been aired in Brazil yet.
Now Internet is here to help us all out with our learning in so many ways and one of my favorites is Youtube.
I was looking for Penélope Cruz’s acceptance speech at the Oscars and found a series of interviews from a Spanish program called El Reservado.
El Reservado brings actors, directors, writers, musicians and personalities from Spanish life in general in very interesting interviews. Its host is Luis Alegre, a professor at the University of Zaragoza and also a writer, journalist and movie director.
Here are two videos from El Reservado, with actors Penélope Cruz and Eduardo Noriega, my favorite Spanish actors. The interviews last around half an hour and their speech speed is not too fast, so intermediate and advanced students of Spanish will benefit a lot from them.
Aprovéchenlas. Nos vemos prontito.
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Antonio Banderas. You may not know this but this Málaga-born Spaniard heartthrob has more than 60 movies under his belt and is highly respected in the movie industry. Banderas started acting at the age of 19 with a series of movies by highly acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. His first American movie was The Mambo Kings and he also had a supporting role in the Oscar-winning 1993 film, Philadelphia. One of his first movies in Spanish, ¡Átame! (Tie me up, Tie me Down!), Banderas plays Ricky, a character who, after being discharged from a mental hospital, wishes to meet again a drug-addicted porn star, played by Victoria Abril, with whom he had an affair in the past. Smitten by the girl, he kidnaps her and ties her down to her bed, and will only let her go when she learns how to love him. It is one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most controversial movies. Has anybody watched this movie? Post a comment with your impressions.
Here’s the trailer:
