Wagner Moura covers M La Revista de Milenio, and the shoot is as charged as the moment surrounding him. Photographed by David Roemer of Atelier Management and styled by Sarah Gore Reeves, the feature puts one of Brazil’s most gifted actors in front of a camera at the exact point when the rest of the world has finally caught up.
Wagner Moura for M La Revista de Milenio
Since earning Best Actor at Cannes 2025 for his role in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s O Agente Secreto, followed by the New York Film Critics Circle Award and a Golden Globe, Moura has become one of the most compelling figures working in global cinema, and Roemer’s lens does not waste the opportunity.
The conversation goes well beyond the awards circuit. Moura speaks about growing up in northeastern Brazil, far from the São Paulo and Rio industry centers, and how that early experience of being labeled “the other” shaped everything that followed, including his refusal to soften his accent when he began working in the United States.
Moura talks about acting as the process of removing masks rather than putting them on, about joy as a form of resistance, and about a world where facts have been replaced by versions of the truth. The result is a profile that uses a remarkable run of accolades as a doorway into something more durable: the portrait of an artist who has been consistent with his values long before anyone outside Latin America was paying close attention.
