“When you play, you do not ask yourself how it feels to be on the bench. You have to live it to understand how difficult it is to be there without being there. To enter a match knowing you do not have the confidence of the coach. To play when you simply don't have the habit of playing.”

Brazilian actor, director and producer

Fernando Monteiro Torres was a Brazilian actor, director and producer in television, film and theatre. His career in Brazilian performance spanned more than five decades, and he is best known to international audiences for his supporting role as Americo in the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman. He also founded Teatro dos Sete in 1959. Across stage and screen, he worked as both performer and creator, building a long career in Brazilian film, theatre and television. The available details point to a figure closely tied to Brazilian popular culture and to a major film that brought him wider recognition.