The ‘caipira’ and the transvestite. The physical program of an actor-author: Matheus Nachtergaele

Abstract

The performances of the movie actors and its relations with the
directors have always been the target of historical and sociological
reflections but they still lack theories capable of giving account of
aesthetic importance around the incarnation of a character in a
movie. The theory of actor as auteur, proposed by Patrick McGilligan,
analyzes the actor as an aesthetic object, as a filmic form, to the same
extent as other components of the mise en scène (light, frameworks,
montage). Actors-auteurs are those interpreters able to establish a
system of interpretation, a “work”, and influence the conception
of a character, a plan, a sequence or an entire movie. Matheus
Nachtergaele is an actor-author and its status is representative of the
historical evolution of Brazilian actors paradigm.