The versatile actor protests against the trend of foreign actors interpreting great Italian characters.
Pierfrancesco Favino he is one of the most prolific Italian actors of recent years, as evidenced by the fact that the multifaceted 54-year-old actor is entering the Venice Film Festival with two films. Commander Edoardo De Angelis e Slowly Stefano Sollima. Favino, however, arrived at the Lido poisoned by the Hollywood tendency to take Italian stories and interpret them with actors who had nothing to do with Italy.
The last film chronologically to prompt Pierfrancesco Favino to start a controversy is Michael Mann’s Ferrari competing in Venice with an American actor. Adam Driver is intended to play Enzo Ferrari in what is essentially a biography of the founder of Scuderia Ferrari. An all-Italian story told to cinema by Hollywood featuring non-Italian actors and actresses, from the aforementioned Adam Driver to Penélope Cruz as Laura Ferrari and Shailene Woodley as Lina Lardy, Ferrari’s historical companion.
Favino’s words
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“There is a theme of cultural appropriation, it is not clear why not me, but actors of this caliber are not involved in such a film that trusts foreign actors, far from the real heroes of the stories, starting with an exotic accent,” Favino said in Venice, also questioning “ The House of Gucci by Ridley Scott, who two years ago told the story of Patricia Reggiani and the murder of Maurizio Gucci, entrusting the lead roles to non-Italian actors, including Adam Driver as Gucci.
Favino mentions first and last names and wonders why the argument didn’t start sooner: “If a Cuban can’t make a Mexican, why can an American make an Italian? Only here. A Ferrari in other eras Gassmann would have done this, today the Driver speaks instead and no one says anything. It seems to me that this is a contemptuous attitude towards the Italian system, if these are general laws, then we participate in them.”
For now, although Pierfrancesco Favino raised the issue twice during his stay in Venice, neither director Michael Mann nor actor Adam Driver, speaking these days at the Lido to promote Ferrari, publicly commented on the words of the Italian actor. He thought about answering Favino. Andrea Iervolinoproducer ferrari.
Factory replica Ferrari.
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“Dear Favino, in the last thirty years Italian cinema has not created a recognizable star system in the world. Remaining closed to international cooperation, which in a global world I find on the contrary beneficial for the growth of the sector”, Iervolino began his response to the “actor”, and then explained that Italy has done very little over the years to develop local talent and turn them into big names on the international level, as happened with Antonio Banderas, PenisLope Cruz, Vincent Cassel or Mads Mikkelsen.
“In Italy, on the other hand, simply to develop and launch Italian talent, it is necessary to make international films, including both foreign and local actors in the cast. To restart Italian cinema, artists must make films with stories that speak to the whole world, world stars who work side by side with our talents,” continued Andrea Iervolino.
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