Wagner Moura: "The penis-shaped baby bottle won the elections in Brazil"

247 - Awaiting the premiere of "Mariguella," his first film as a director, actor Wagner Moura stated that in Brazil "it wasn't just the mistakes of the left" that led to Jair Bolsonaro's election victory, but also "things like the penis-shaped baby bottle."

"The 'penis-shaped baby bottle' won the elections in Brazil! And we're not just talking about Brazil: I heard that Donald Trump lies 11 times a day. We live in a time when the truth doesn't matter. It doesn't matter! Whatever they [the far-right] do – saying I'm high on cocaine, or that the left was handing out penis-shaped baby bottles – it works," the artist said in an interview with the website. UOL.

Moura also denounced a "smear campaign" against him. "It's horrible, but I'm ready. Before coming to Berlin, I gave an interview to the left-wing news portal Brasil de Fato. At the end, I said I would love to have an exchange of ideas with someone from the Brazilian right. But when I look at the spectrum of the right in Brazil, I don't see anyone I would actually want to sit down and talk to, because they are so aggressive and mediocre."

"Right after saying that, I thought a lot of people would record videos saying, 'Wagner Moura, let me explain things to you,' proving me wrong. But what did they do? A video saying I was snorting cocaine when I recorded the interview. I had rhinitis, so I touched my nose a few times, but they edited a video only with those parts. So this kind of response only proves what I say about them being mediocre, because that's what instigated the ad hominem argument, where you don't attack someone's idea, but the person themselves... and with lies... I'm not able to respond to that kind of thing: they prove me right. What's crazy is that, whatever they do, it works."