Rodrigo Santoro
Rodrigo Santoro
Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santorois a Brazilian actor. He has appeared in many successful movies, including Brainstorm, Carandiru, Love Actually, Che, I Love You Phillip Morris, and Rio. He is perhaps most famous for his portrayal as Xerxes in the movie 300and its subsequent sequel 300: Rise of an Empire. He was also a series regular on the television series Lost portraying the character Paulo...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 August 1975
CityRio de Janeiro, Brazil
CountryBrazil
Rodrigo Santoro quotes about
Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.
It's hard, the green screen; it's a different way of working.
Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.
I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.
My mom and my dad are still together, but so many of my friends who got married just a few years ago aren't. Maybe it's that we compare ourselves to our parents' generation, thinking, 'Who's still together, and are they happy?'
I need to surf - surf and yoga. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go down to San Diego to surf for the weekend, and I always come back perfect.
I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.
In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.
In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?
I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.
When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.
I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.
I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports.