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'I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow,' she says. She's ready for career experimentation too: A few years ago, while in Spain, she publicly announced to Pedro Almodovar that she wished to play a gay woman in one of his upcoming films-a declaration that made the front page of Spanish newspapers. 'Probably it wasn't the right woman for me,' she says teasingly. Skirting the specifics of her Sex and the City appearance (scheduled to debut in June), Braga merrily admits to having once fallen in love with another woman and to an aborted bout of experimentation. `OK! Let's go to it!'' Unfortunately, Braga is forbidden to discuss the alleged lesbian spin ('We can't! They're going to spank us-and we're going to love it!'), but scuttlebutt has it she gets very friendly with cast member Kim Cattrall. 'Well, I think the only way to get sex in New York is to have a show,' she says, laughing. Roles followed in Robert Redford's The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) the Larry McMurtry miniseries Streets of Laredo (1995) the recent film Angel Eyes, in which she portrays Jennifer Lopez's woeful, battered mother and now, a new role-with a rumored lesbian twist-on HBO's Sex and the City. 'I had to learn everything phonetically,' she admits.

Spider Woman-the first English-language film from Babenco (Pixote)-launched Braga's English-language film career as well.

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Her father died when she was 8 years old, and she started acting soon afterward: first as a princess on a children's TV show, The Enchanted Garden, then, at 18, onstage in Hair, causing a scandal by appearing nude. 'Being very creative and being a seamstress, she would do very beautiful clothing.' (In fact, Mama Braga, Zeze, sewed Sonia's Spider Woman clothing.)Д«raga hails from the town of Maringa in southern Brazil. And she's had gay men in her life since childhood, including a younger brother, a mentor and hairdresser named Tony Carlos, and-her mother? Indeed, Braga says she has known a number of political activists who, like Valentin, were jailed or killed or who simply disappeared during Brazil's troubled transition from military dictatorship to democracy. Many of them, especially in Brazil, have disappeared.

'And I say, `Because it's important.' I have both in my life: gay people and political people, if not both in one body.

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'Some people would say, 'Why do a movie with a gay man and political prisoner in a cell?' she says. Sometimes we'd do Leni together.'ДЇor Braga, who lives in Manhattan these days, Spider Woman had very real, very personal appeal. 'He was very shy, I think, totally adorable. 'What I remember is nothing but fun,' she says of Puig. He often acted out Leni's grandiose diva gestures, she says, as did the production designer and hairdresser. Spider Woman was the fantasy of the late gay novelist Puig, who, Braga recalls, coached her performance on the set as the superglamorous Leni Lamaison. 'And I love being a woman in somebody else's head, because there are no limits, and that's perfect for any actor. 'That's probably the way I would feel about myself,' responds Braga, sitting in a favorite restaurant in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. 'She can feed the sexy bombshell fantasies of any man, gay or not, and at the same time, she can be a woman who would raise a family and stay in the kitchen for a few hours, working and being a good companion.' 'She has two sides,' says Babenco of his countrywoman's fantastic abilities. Braga portrayed three characters: Leni Lamaison, the glamorous star of an over-the-top romantic movie Molina spins to amuse his cell mate, political prisoner Valentin (Raul Julia) Marta, Valentin's long-lost lover and the man-consuming Spider Woman of Molina's imagination-dreams all, and all Braga. Retrieved from ДЄs the 1985 classic Kiss of the Spider Woman returns to theaters, SONIA BRAGA talks about falling in love with a woman, gay men's fantasies, and her secret Sex and the City roleД«razilian actress Sonia Braga is a gay man's dream woman-literally, in the case of the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman, which receives its well-deserved rerelease June 29 in New York and July 27 in Los Angeles and San Francisco.Д«ased on the novel by Manuel Puig, director Hector Babenco's groundbreaking indie snagged a surprise four Oscar nominations and won a Best Actor statuette for William Hurt, who played Molina, a gay man with a vivid imagination being held in a Latin American jail. APA style: Return of the Spider Woman.Return of the Spider Woman.' Retrieved from

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MLA style: 'Return of the Spider Woman.' The Free Library.