The following text contains spoilers for “Civil War”, which hits theaters on April 18th.
Wagner Moura revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that a scene of “Civil war” it awakened “a latent nightmare” in him.
The Brazilian actor plays a Reuters journalist in the plot, who is covering a civil war in the United States. Along with three colleagues, he is on his way to Washington DC to try to have an interview with the President before the opposition arrives and ousts him from power.
Along the way, they find two soldiers burying bodies in a remote location while taking two colleagues hostage. When they arrive to try to rescue the duo, Moura's character states that they are American journalists and that they are covering the news agency.
One of the soldiers, played by Jesse Plemons, asks: “What kind of American are you? North, Central or South? Where are you from?”. He responds that he is from Florida, where the majority of the population is Latino.
Then, the soldier asks the other journalists where they are from. One is from Missouri and the other from Colorado, and he says, “That’s what being a real American is.”
Moura stated that after recording this scene, he was destroyed and “lay down grass and cried”.
“I'm an American citizen, but I speak with an accent and I'm not from here. It made me start thinking, 'What if I'm driving somewhere in the rural US and I stop at a gas station and someone asks me where I'm from or what I'm doing there? How would I react?'”.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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