Hi, I'm Greg Barker.
I'm Wagner Moura.
And we're gonna talk you through, I think,
one of our favorite scenes
in our movie,Sergio.
Shot by shot.
So, this scene is, I think one of
our favorite scenes in the movie.
It comes at a pivotal point.
Sergio had this meeting with Xanana's mom,
who was the revolutionary
who was leading the independence of East Timor.
And then Xanana doesn't receive him,
so Sergio's sort of humiliated by him.
And then he meets Carolina again.
Listen, I was just about to leave
but I think I have to show you something.
When she sees Sergio kind of lost on the street,
she's leading him to this encounter.
That's when we discover the importance that she had.
This is the Bobometo Collective.
Our pilot project.
We give these women start-up loans.
They got loans from the UN
to start up a kind of, small business.
You know, because the whole thing was about
trying to regenerate this economy.
And it's really the first time Sergio,
in our movie, immerses himself in
the lives of ordinary people.
So now finally, they can earn a living
by doing what they've done for centuries.
What she's showing to him is pretty much
the core of what he was supposed to be doing,
and the kind of people that he was
supposed to be listening to.
Our goal is to have
many more like this one,
all around the country.
This is shot on a steadicam, one camera.
The important thing was just to keep it authentic.
We kind of did our best to bring East Timor
to us in Thailand.
The fact that we brought these extras from East Timor,
it made a big difference.
And some of these people, they knew Sergio.
They met Sergio.
This is Senhorinha.
- Hola, Senhorinha. - Hola.
Senhorinha was the last person
that we cast in the film.
Yes.
- She's not an actress. - She's not an actress.
I think she's a school teacher?
"Senhorinha" is her real name.
And then we found out that, in fact,
you know, she'd lived through the revolution
struggle, had lost family members.
She wasn't just saying lines,
she was telling her story, the story of her people.
My name is Sergio.
Hi, Sergio.
Are you Portuguese?
No, I'm Brazilian.
Why are you here?
I'm here to administer Timor,
That was the day when I met her.
I didn't meet Senhorinha before.
We started rehearsing it once
and we immediately realized,
we can't rehearse this.
Because the energy was so real and authentic.
In a scene like this, the role of the director,
is to create an environment
and a mood that feels right and authentic
and then get out of the way, and let it happen.
Welcome.
We have been waiting for the future to arrive.
What do you want most for your future?
Yeah, it was just one or two takes
or something like that.
The first, the shot on her was the original take,
and then we had to do pick-ups
of Sergio from the other side.
My whole life...
I worked the land.
Today,
my land,
my family,
they are all dead.
The dialogue here is actually based on
a real encounter Sergio had
with a woman in a refugee camp.
I want to go up into the sky...
and become a cloud.
I wasn't thinking about a character,
I wasn't thinking about Sergio.
I was being myself
and to be affected
or touched by what she was saying.
Then travel through the sky
to the place where I was born.
That's probably 70 percent memorized and the rest,
she's improvising.
Because it's coming from the heart.
What she's doing is kind of
what acting was supposed to be.
You know, just make a connection
between these things
that you're saying and something
that you feel for real.
So, tell the world to see us
the way we are.
I just wanted to hug her.
This is not scripted.
- This just happens. - No. Yeah.
This is not character.
This is not Sergio and another character.
This is me and that woman, like,
having a moment.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
Then she says “Thank you,” innocently, like...
Yeah.
Carolina-slash-Ana de Armas is
just seeing this encounter
and we're not cutting,
we're just letting it happen.
Sergio is kind of beginning to internalize
what he's just been through
and realizing that he's now been challenged
as a character.
And you see that in what you’re, he’s going through,
at least I do,
in what's going through your expression right here.
We really want you to watch this film
which is a very important film for all of us.
What's it called?
It's called Sergio.
- On Netflix. - On Netflix.