In Reaching for the Moon, LOTR star Miranda Otto is astonishing! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Intervi

Today's Guests: Reaching for the Moon star Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings, What Lies Beneath, War of the Worlds) and director Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands).
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Reaching for the Moon and LOTR star Miranda Otto (What Lies Beneath, War of the Worlds) and director Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes the cast of the animated film ‘Rio’ as well as the general manager of the beachfront Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro who is still trying to recoup the long distance telephone charges for my stay in 2008 … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

For the past five years I have been angling for a way back to Brazil and particularly to the astonishing city of Rio de Janeiro.

And now that I have watched a new film called Reaching for the Moon, I want to return in a time machine so that I can take in the remarkable city as it was in the 1950s when revolution was in the air and social mores came tumbling down.

In director Bruno Barreto’s new film, Miranda Otto portrays the real-life American poet Elizabeth Bishop, a woman who can make any social setting uncomfortable – in any city, in any country. She is a woman who is ill at ease in her own skin and leaving America to visit her friend Mary in Brazil doesn’t change any of that. In fact, it just makes it worse.
BRUNO BARRETO podcast excerpt: "Elizabeth Bishop didn't get out of her own way to be nice or be liked. She was an uncompromising bitch in the best sense of the word! She wanted to be liked for what she wrote, not who she was."
MIRANDA OTTO podcast excerpt: "I never saw Elizabeth as a bitch or any of that. I loved her! It's hysterical when people say that to me. I completely understood what she was going through, understood why she would say certain things or b