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Byline: JOHN POWERS editor: Valerie Steiker
Brazilian actress Alice Braga bewitches costars and audiences alike in this summer's Crossing Over.
Indiana Jones was my hero," says Brazilian actress Alice Braga, with an amazed laugh, of working with her childhood idol, Harrison Ford, on the film Crossing Over. "I kept telling myself, I'm here on the set with Indiana, I'm here on the set with Indiana."
The Sao Paulo native might have been surprised to find herself in such a position, but the truth is she has stardom in her DNA: She's the niece of Sonia Braga, the eighties bombshell who played the title role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Like her aunt, Alice commands the screen with an earthy, bighearted sensuality--her passions lie close to the surface. She's currently on-screen in David Mamet's Redbelt, in which she plays the scheming wife of a martial-arts master, a role that tickles her. ("My characters are usually so sweet, but this ...