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Sitting at a beautiful rooftop overlooking the sprawling streets of Italy’s Taormina, Oscar-nominated Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres still can’t quite believe she has finally made it to Sicily. Torres, who is in town to receive the Taormina Film Festival Achievement Award, tells Variety that visiting the region has been a “longtime dream” of hers. 

“I am so moved because my family descends from Italy,” she goes on, recalling how her mother, iconic Brazilian actor Fernanda Montenegro, won an award in the same town in 1978. “Since then, I have always wanted to visit. I have friends who have attended the theater festival, and it always felt like a dream. I had never been to Sicily, so receiving an homage here felt unthinkable.” 

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