{"id":2256178,"date":"2026-01-29T13:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2256178"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:05:36","slug":"joao-nicolau-talks-casting-portuguese-eurovision-star-salvador-sobral-in-rotterdam-opener-providence-and-the-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/joao-nicolau-talks-casting-portuguese-eurovision-star-salvador-sobral-in-rotterdam-opener-providence-and-the-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo\u00e3o Nicolau Talks Casting Portuguese Eurovision Star Salvador Sobral in Rotterdam Opener \u2018Providence and the Guitar\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Later tonight, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1176219\/\">Jo\u00e3o Nicolau<\/a>\u2019s \u201cProvidence and the Guitar\u201d will play concurrently in five screening rooms across Rotterdam as the opening film at this year\u2019s International Film Festival Rotterdam, an occasion the Portuguese filmmaker calls a \u201cgreat responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0829044\/\">Robert Louis Stevenson<\/a>\u2019s eponymous short story, \u201cProvidence and the Guitar\u201d trails travelling artists Le\u00f3n (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5988739\/\">Pedro In\u00eas<\/a>) and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7189468\/\">Elvira<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8253762\/\">Clara Riedenstein<\/a>) as they dodge moody police officers and rivals while hopping from town to town. The period piece is peppered with sequences in the present, where the two musicians, now in a punk rock band, continue to struggle to make a living through their art. Speaking with Variety ahead of the film\u2019s world premiere in the Dutch city, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2710932\/\">Nicolau<\/a> says, \u201cIt\u2019s an immense joy\u201d to have such a prestigious slot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never been to Rotterdam, but several colleagues have and have told me it is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later tonight, Jo\u00e3o Nicolau\u2019s \u201cProvidence and the Guitar\u201d will play concurrently in five screening rooms across Rotterdam as the opening film at this year\u2019s International Film Festival Rotterdam, an occasion the Portuguese filmmaker calls a \u201cgreat responsibility.\u201d Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s eponymous short story, \u201cProvidence and the Guitar\u201d trails travelling artists Le\u00f3n (Pedro In\u00eas) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2256179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2256178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Joao-Nicolau-Talks-Casting-Portuguese-Eurovision-Star-Salvador-Sobral-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256180,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256178\/revisions\/2256180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}