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| Type | Article |
| Author | Matthew Carey |
| URL | https://deadline.com/video/the-secret-agent-interview-kleber-mendonca-filho-wagner-moura/ |
| Note created | Mar 5, 2026 |
On an interview for Deadline about The Secret Agent (2025):
“For most of my life, for all my life, the hairy leg was a local urban legend,” Mendonça explained. “Recife had a number of urban legends. The hairy leg was actually created by a local journalist who was so fed up with not being able to write about what happened last night in terms of violence — because, of course, the police or the military inflicted the terror on the gay population, people having sex in parks, smoking pot. And so he developed a ‘hairy leg’ as a code. So, [he would write], ‘The hairy leg struck again last night,’ and everybody knew that something bad related to the police force was involved.”