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Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Backpacker's haunting final text before fatal volcano fall that left her trapped
Juliana Marins, 26, died after falling into the crater of Mount Rinjani, in Lombok, Indonesia. In a text to her mum before her trip, she said she was 'not afraid' A backpacker who tragically died after falling into a volcano in Indonesia sent her mum a heartbreaking text at the beginning of her trip in South East Asia. Juliana Marins, 26, slipped and plunged nearly 1,000 feet down while climbing Mount Rinjani, in Lombok, on a guided hike on June 21. The publicist and pole dancer, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, vanished after falling into the crater - and her body was found after a four-day search effort. Local police said Juliana had stopped to rest due to fatigue while the guide continued with the rest of the group. However, by the time he returned she was dead. It has now emerged that at the start of her doomed trip, Juliana had texted her mum, Estela Marins, to say that she was "fearless" and was determined to follow her dreams. In a message shown to Brazilian programme Fantastico, Juliana said: "Mami, I love you so much. I was heartbroken when we said goodbye. "In fact, that's the only thing that worries me: letting you, papi or my sister be disappointed. Other than that, I'm not afraid of much, much less trouble." She also said she wasn't afraid of life's difficulties as she was raised by a strong woman. "I was raised by a woman who can solve any problem and who is not afraid to take the plunge and go after her dreams," Juliana texted. "I am like that too. I have different desires and dreams. I love you all very much! And I will always be grateful for all the support, care and affection. That is what makes me fearless." According to Globo, her body is expected to arrive in Brazil today - and an autopsy will be carried out to determine whether she could have been saved if she had been rescued earlier. The first autopsy was performed a hospital in Bali on June 26. The coroner concluded her death occurred after "trauma" - in a process that took her life in 20 minutes. However, it's not clear when the fatal injury occurred as between the time she fell and the day before she was found dead, she was heard screaming and was seen on drone footage, still alive. Juliana's family described the rescue mission as "botched" and claimed the tour guide abandoned her. Her sister, Mariana Marins, said: "Juliana was in this group, but she got very tired and asked to stop for a while. They kept going, and the guide didn't stay with her." Brazil's Foreign Ministry called her death a tragedy and said that the country's embassy in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, had co-ordinated the rescue with local authorities. Authorities did not say when exactly she died. In an Instagram post, Juliana's family thanked the many Brazilians who had prayed for their daughter's safety. She was a dancer who lived in Niteroi, outside Rio de Janeiro and had been travelling across Asia since February. She had visited the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand before reaching Indonesia.
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Scottish Sun
‘I'm not afraid': Heartbreaking final text of tragic backpacker, 26, who perished in volcano crater after plunge on hike
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) TRAGIC backpacker Juliana Marins told her family "I'm not afraid" in a final text before her death on an Indonesian volcano. The 26-year-old's mum, Estela Marins, revealed it was written at the start of her daughter's doomed Southeast Asia trip. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 9 Juliana Marins, 26, told her family 'I love you all so much' in a final text before her tragic death Credit: Jam Press 9 Juliana pictured with her mum Estela at the airport shortly before the doomed trip Credit: Globo1 9 Estela revealed her daughter's last message to Brazilian media In a message shown to Brazilian programme Fantastico, Juliana said: "Mami, I love you so much. I was heartbroken when we said goodbye. "In fact, that's the only thing that worries me: letting you, papi or my sister be disappointed. Other than that, I'm not afraid of much, much less trouble. 'I was raised by a woman who can solve any problem and who is not afraid to take the plunge and go after her dreams. I am like that too. I have different desires and dreams. "I love you all very much! And I will always be grateful for all the support, care and affection. That is what makes me not afraid." Juliana died after falling more than 1,600 feet from a cliff on a hike up Mount Rinjani, an active volcano in Indonesia, on June 21. Her body was only recovered three days later, after a complex and delayed rescue operation. New autopsy ordered Her body is due to arrive in Brazil today, Globo reports. There, a second autopsy will be carried out to determine whether she could have survived the fall with timely help. The request for the new examination was made by the Public Defender's Office and fast-tracked by President Lula da Silva. Mount Etna erupts sending tourists fleeing for lives as volcano explodes into life & smoke plume rises from mountain Authorities say the autopsy must be done within six hours of her return to preserve evidence. The first autopsy, conducted in Bali, found that she died from trauma within 20 minutes - but drone footage and witness accounts have cast doubt on that timeline. 'Left behind' on the trail Juliana, from Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, had been hiking with six tourists and two local guides when she became exhausted and stopped to rest. The publicist and dancer's family has since blasted the "botched" rescue mission and claimed her tour guide abandoned her. 'Juliana was in this group, but she got very tired and asked to stop for a while. They kept going, and the guide didn't stay with her,' said her sister, Mariana Marins. Guide Ali Musthofa claimed he was only 'three minutes' ahead and returned when Juliana didn't show up — only to find she had fallen. 9 Juliana's body is to arrive back in Brazil today for a new autopsy Credit: Jam Press 9 She was hiking with six tourists and two local guides when she became exhausted and stopped to rest Credit: Jam Press 9 Video shows Juliana trapped on the Rinjani volcano in Indonesia after she fell during a hike Credit: Newsflash 9 Separate footage shows the tourist smiling and joking with her pal before tragedy struck 'I saw the light of a flashlight on a ravine about 150 meters deep and heard Juliana's voice calling for help,' he said. Rescue drones later spotted the Brazilian alive on the cliff, but poor weather and lack of equipment delayed efforts to reach her. She was officially confirmed dead on June 24, and her family has accused Indonesian authorities of failing to provide assistance. Initial reports claimed rescuers had reached Juliana and provided food and water. The Brazilian embassy repeated this — but it turned out to be false. 'The information we have is that so far they have not been able to reach her because the ropes were not long enough, in addition to the low visibility,' Mariana said at the time. The ambassador later admitted he had passed on inaccurate reports from Indonesian officials. 9 Rescue workers attempting to evacuate Juliana after she fell into a ravine on Mount Rinjani Credit: AFP
CBC
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Fernanda Torres explains why I'm Still Here is resonating with audiences outside of Brazil
Note: Fernanda Torres has recently come under fire for appearing in blackface in a 2008 episode of the Brazilian sketch comedy series Fantastico, which resurfaced earlier this week. She subsequently apologized in an interview with Deadline, saying "I am very sorry for this. I'm making this statement as it is important for me to address this swiftly to avoid further pain and confusion." The blackface incident was not mentioned in her Q interview, as it was recorded prior to the reappearance of the footage from Fantastico. Fernanda Torres says one of the reasons her latest film, I'm Still Here, resonates so deeply with audiences outside of Brazil is because "it's centred in a family" — something that's universal. For her performance, the Brazilian actor won this year's Golden Globe for best actress in a drama and she's up for best actress at the Oscars. "Everybody understands, deep in their hearts, what [it would] mean to have your father assassinated, tortured and [for you] to be left alone with your mother," Torres tells Q host Tom Power in an interview. "If you are a mother, to be left alone with five children, having to reinvent yourself during a tragic moment." I'm Still Here is about life under the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1965 to 1985. It tells the story of Eunice Paiva, whose husband Rubens Paiva — an opposition politician — was kidnapped and executed by the military in 1971. Torres says even in her own country, Paiva was somewhat of a forgotten hero, initially overshadowed by her husband and then by her son, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, who wrote the 2015 book I'm Still Here on which the film is based. "[The book is] when we really discovered Eunice," Torres says. "The book is about the son in his adulthood discovering that the real hero of the family was not the father, not him, but it was this amazing woman called Eunice Paiva." One of the things that drew Torres to the role was the way Paiva re-invented herself after the authorities took her husband (Rubens was later declared dead in absentia). The actor says Eunice was "raised to be this perfect housewife from the '50s" and "the great woman behind the great man," but instead turned out to be an important figure in her own right. WATCH | Official trailer for I'm Still Here: "At the age of 46 she went back to university [and] became a lawyer," Torres explains. "In the '80s, she was one of the first people to be fighting for the Indigenous [autonomy and land rights] in Brazil. Today we have a lot of the Amazon forest saved thanks to Eunice. And then she was part of the constitution in Brazil in '88 during the democratization of the country." Despite all this, Eunice remained humble and avoided self-promotion, which is why her story was almost lost until her son wrote I'm Still Here. "It's like a woman who always fights the right fight, and she never had the will to be recognized by this, which is kind of strange nowadays," the actor tells Power. "Everybody's selling themselves on the internet, everybody has this will to sell yourself, to make propaganda about your life, and Eunice, on the contrary, she was a woman who never felt like it was important for her to be recognized.… I could spend hours talking about why she's so unique."
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘I'm Still Here' Oscar Nominee & Golden Globe Winner Fernanda Torres Apologizes For Blackface Turn In 17-Year-Old Resurfaced TV Comedy Sketch
EXCLUSIVE: After scoring a Best Actress Oscar nomination after winning the Golden Globe for Best Performance By An Actress in a Film Drama for her portrayal of a mother searching for her disappeared politician husband in I'm Still Here, Fernanda Torres tonight is making an apology for a decades-old skit on the Brazilian TV show Fantastico that is beginning to resurface. She played multiple characters in the skit, one of them in blackface. 'Almost twenty years ago, I appeared in blackface in a comedy sketch from a Brazilian TV show,' Torres said in a statement. 'I am very sorry for this. I'm making this statement as it is important for me to address this swiftly to avoid further pain and confusion. More from Deadline 'A Complete Unknown' Sings (As Does Timothée Chalamet On SNL) After 8 Oscar Noms, 'The Brutalist' Continues To Surprise - Specialty Box Office Oscars: 'Emilia Pérez' Scores Most Nominations Ever For A Foreign Language Movie, Could Notch France's First International Win In 30+ Years Fernanda Torres Lands Brazil's First Acting Oscar Nomination Since Her Mother's 1999 Nod 'At that time, despite the efforts of Black movements and organizations, the awareness of the racist history and symbolism of blackface hadn't yet entered the mainstream public consciousness in Brazil. Thanks to better cultural understanding and important but incomplete achievements in this century, it's very clear now in our country and everywhere that blackface is never acceptable. 'This is an important conversation we must continue to have with one another in order to prevent the normalization of racist practices then and now. As an artist and global citizen, and from my open heart, I remain attentive and committed to the pursuit of vital changes needed to live in a world free from inequality and racism,' she said. Deadline is always protective of films and artists in the midst of awards races when things from the past surface, organically or deliberately, because we believe the biggest awards in Hollywood ought to be bestowed for the nominated work and nothing else. That is why we felt it best to allow Torres to speak her truth and get out in front of this. The clip from the Globo-produced Fantastico has nothing to do with Torres' lauded performance in a film released by Sony Pictures Classics which is also nominated for Best Picture and Best International Film. Torres became only the second Brazilian actress nominated for the Oscar, the first being her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated in 1988 for her performance in Central Station. The comedy sketch series originally aired 17 years ago on the primetime weekly show Fantastico, a three-hour popular program that has aired Sundays for the last 50 years. The sketch in question – The Opposite Sex: The Family (Father Vs. Mother) — mixes scenes, sketches, and testimonies from two actors playing multiple roles (Fernanda Torres and a male actor) directly addressing the camera with additional information and facts complementing the narrative. The episode's theme questions humorously who is more important: the mother or the father? In the single specific scene in question, the Mother details her busy routine, which includes waking up early, working out, taking care of the children, working, eating well to take care of her appearance, facing sexism from coworkers, studying for a master's degree and after she gets home, she has to take care of the children again and prepare dinner for the husband who just returned from a happy hour. The Father says that the woman worries a lot. The Mother, named Solange and played by Torres, says she wants to separate, and Father (Luis Carlos) says Solange is just tired and needs a housekeeper to help with the house work. The housekeeper (Dalva) [Torres in character with blackface] appears, saying that all the problems Solange has, she also has – children, a house to take care of, and a husband to 'satisfy'. And that at this point, she couldn't help the employer. Solange returns and says that she separated from Luis Carlos and had made an agreement with Dalva, giving her half of everything she has. Now she has a tidy house, ready meals, and the children in line. Solange says, 'I became the man of the house.' Dalva appears, irritated, with a whip in hand and a bag with hamburgers, complaining about Luis Carlos' presence at the house every weekend. She opens his room door to deliver the food, and the man complains that he doesn't like ketchup with pickles. Dalva leaves, grumbling. Says Dalva: 'My problem now is that Dr. Luis Carlos spends every weekend at this house and leaves everything in a mess! Hey Dr. Luiz Carlos, go to hell! Here is your hamburger!' To which Luis Carlos replies: 'Damn it, Dalva, Don't you know I hate ketchup and pickles? Are you kidding me…' Best of Deadline 'Severance' Cast Through Seasons 1 And 2: Innies, Outies, Severed and Unsevered 2025 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Spirits, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More Everything We Know About 'Only Murders In The Building' Season 5 So Far
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘I'm Still Here' Oscar Nominee & Golden Globe Winner Fernanda Torres Apologizes For Blackface Turn In 17-Year-Old Resurfaced TV Comedy Sketch
EXCLUSIVE: After scoring a Best Actress Oscar nomination after winning the Golden Globe for Best Performance By An Actress in a Film Drama for her portrayal of a mother searching for her disappeared politician husband in I'm Still Here, Fernanda Torres tonight is making an apology for a decades-old skit on the Brazilian TV show Fantastico that is beginning to resurface. She played multiple characters in the skit, one of them in blackface. 'Almost twenty years ago, I appeared in blackface in a comedy sketch from a Brazilian TV show,' Torres said in a statement. 'I am very sorry for this. I'm making this statement as it is important for me to address this swiftly to avoid further pain and confusion. More from Deadline 'A Complete Unknown' Sings (As Does Timothée Chalamet On SNL) After 8 Oscar Noms, 'The Brutalist' Continues To Surprise - Specialty Box Office Oscars: 'Emilia Pérez' Scores Most Nominations Ever For A Foreign Language Movie, Could Notch France's First International Win In 30+ Years Fernanda Torres Lands Brazil's First Acting Oscar Nomination Since Her Mother's 1999 Nod 'At that time, despite the efforts of Black movements and organizations, the awareness of the racist history and symbolism of blackface hadn't yet entered the mainstream public consciousness in Brazil. Thanks to better cultural understanding and important but incomplete achievements in this century, it's very clear now in our country and everywhere that blackface is never acceptable. 'This is an important conversation we must continue to have with one another in order to prevent the normalization of racist practices then and now. As an artist and global citizen, and from my open heart, I remain attentive and committed to the pursuit of vital changes needed to live in a world free from inequality and racism,' she said. Deadline is always protective of films and artists in the midst of awards races when things from the past surface, organically or deliberately, because we believe the biggest awards in Hollywood ought to be bestowed for the nominated work and nothing else. That is why we felt it best to allow Torres to speak her truth and get out in front of this. The clip from the Globo-produced Fantastico has nothing to do with Torres' lauded performance in a film released by Sony Pictures Classics which is also nominated for Best Picture and Best International Film. Torres became only the second Brazilian actress nominated for the Oscar, the first being her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated in 1988 for her performance in Central Station. The comedy sketch series originally aired 17 years ago on the primetime weekly show Fantastico, a three-hour popular program that has aired Sundays for the last 50 years. The sketch in question – The Opposite Sex: The Family (Father Vs. Mother) — mixes scenes, sketches, and testimonies from two actors playing multiple roles (Fernanda Torres and a male actor) directly addressing the camera with additional information and facts complementing the narrative. The episode's theme questions humorously who is more important: the mother or the father? In the single specific scene in question, the Mother details her busy routine, which includes waking up early, working out, taking care of the children, working, eating well to take care of her appearance, facing sexism from coworkers, studying for a master's degree and after she gets home, she has to take care of the children again and prepare dinner for the husband who just returned from a happy hour. The Father says that the woman worries a lot. The Mother, named Solange and played by Torres, says she wants to separate, and Father (Luis Carlos) says Solange is just tired and needs a housekeeper to help with the house work. The housekeeper (Dalva) [Torres in character with blackface] appears, saying that all the problems Solange has, she also has – children, a house to take care of, and a husband to 'satisfy'. And that at this point, she couldn't help the employer. Solange returns and says that she separated from Luis Carlos and had made an agreement with Dalva, giving her half of everything she has. Now she has a tidy house, ready meals, and the children in line. Solange says, 'I became the man of the house.' Dalva appears, irritated, with a whip in hand and a bag with hamburgers, complaining about Luis Carlos' presence at the house every weekend. She opens his room door to deliver the food, and the man complains that he doesn't like ketchup with pickles. Dalva leaves, grumbling. Says Dalva: 'My problem now is that Dr. Luis Carlos spends every weekend at this house and leaves everything in a mess! Hey Dr. Luiz Carlos, go to hell! Here is your hamburger!' To which Luis Carlos replies: 'Damn it, Dalva, Don't you know I hate ketchup and pickles? Are you kidding me…' Best of Deadline 'Severance' Cast Through Seasons 1 And 2: Innies, Outies, Severed and Unsevered 2025 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Spirits, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More Everything We Know About 'Only Murders In The Building' Season 5 So Far
