It is false that Fernanda Torres wished Brazilians to die from Covid

It is false that Brazilian actress, screenwriter and writer Fernanda Torres wanted the population to die from Covid. Posts that once again circulated on social media among right-wing profiles misinformed by stating that the protagonist of “I’m Still Here” hoped that the coronavirus would fulfill “its mission of shortening” the Bolsonaro government.

“Screw the people and the corpses, if the virus fulfills ‘its mission’ of ‘abbreviating’ the government, everything is fine”, says the phrase mistakenly attributed to the actress. The publication distorts an excerpt from the text published by Fernanda in Sheet in March 2020.

In the column, the writer states that no one will emerge the same after the quarantine, criticizes Bishop Edir Macedo and then-president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) for their demonstrations during the health crisis and states that the defense of economic ultraliberalism and the minimal State will have to be reviewed.

“I hope that the center will emerge from this emergency. And that the coronavirus, like the Black Death in 14th century Europe, will shorten the medieval obscurantism disguised as liberal that we have found ourselves in”, stated Fernanda Torres in the column.

At the time, the actress commented on the pieces of misinformation in the following column, when she denied having treated the calamity as something desired. “I continue to hope that this horror will unite the planet, strengthen the value of science, the press, reason, good politics and compassion, while I await a miracle that combats both the plague and the disastrous culture of hate,” he wrote. .

The new wave of misinformation arises amid the campaign, among right-wing profiles, to boycott Walter Salles’ film, starring Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello and chosen to represent Brazil in the dispute for a place at the Oscars.

THE Sheet the actress and writer said she “would never say such nonsense” and said she trusts people’s discernment to perceive misinformation. “This is disgusting fake news, the result of what remains of an office of hate that deserves to be dismantled once and for all in Brazil,” he stated.

Regarding the attempted boycott of the feature film, Fernanda commented: “‘I’m Still Here’ touches the hearts of Greeks and Trojans, it is a film that is recovering not only the history, the memory of exemplary Brazilians such as Eunice Paiva, Rubens Paiva and their children, like the pride and affection for art in Brazil.”

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