Jornal de Notícias is among the Portuguese news outlets reporting today that Pedro Hestnes, the actor best known internationally for his performances in Pedro Costa's Blood and Casa de Lava and Manuel Mozos's Xavier, has succumbed to cancer at the age of 49. His funeral will be held this afternoon at the Camarate cemetery in Loures. Hestnes had just completed work on Catarina Ruivo's Em segunda mão, currently in post-production, and was first diagnosed just two months ago.
- 6/21/2011
- MUBI
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