Pierfrancesco Favino disagrees and blurts out: We ask everyone to contribute,make a system“His battle is about how foreign cinema looks at Italy in terms of stereotypes, it’s a very old story of pizza and mandolin and interpretation.
“Gucci had a New Jersey accent, didn’t you know?“, – he ironically, quoting Ridley Scott’s production of Gucci House on the sidelines of the meeting dedicated to Stefano Sollima’s Adagio. Now we are staging Michael Mann’s Ferrari with Adam Driver as Drake.
“Ferrari would make Gassmann”
“There is a theme of cultural appropriationit is not clear why not me, but actors of this level – he tells his co-stars Toni Servillo, Adriano Giannini, Valerio Mastandrea – they do not participate in this kind of films, which instead use foreign actors, far from the real heroes of the stories, starting with an exotic accent. If a Cuban can’t make a Mexican, why can an American make an Italian? Only here. Ferrari in other eras Gassmann would have done it, today instead Driver does and no one says anything. It seems to me that this is a disdainful attitude towards the Italian system, if these are general laws, then we participate in them.“.
Driver-Mann, controversy
Cause discussion and recent statements by Adam Driver himself (“I couldn’t drive those cars because the insurance wouldn’t let me, and they wouldn’t let me touch anything valuable and expensive on set except sandwiches. However, I was almost horrified at the sight of custom-built cars from Maranello, they are really dangerous.“), as well as Michael Mann who, in an interview with Repubblica, claims to be ill-informed about Formula 1: “I don’t know much about the current F1 racing environment other than what I’ve read. I raced the amateur Ferrari Challenge for six years, in between one movie, I was never consistent, but it was great. There I understood the mental focus, the fact that you have to be inside what you are doing while the rest of your life disappears. You have nothing more to worry about. For me it was like this: after talking with Lewis Hamilton, I realized that this is true for all riders. You are so prepared and focused that you have a kind of zen experience.“.