Ever since Simona Tabasco stole the show in Season 2 of ‘The White Lotus», America seems to be in love with her. The prestigious magazine Forbes dedicates the cover to her and puts her among the 30 under to keep an eye on, her haircut is now called “the Italian bob”, the American agency WME – one of the most famous founded even in 1898 – has wanted among his talents and will soon shoot his first American film, Immaculatea horror film set in a convent.
But Simona is no longer afraid of leaps into the void after having said yes to the interpretation of an escort in the second season of the comedy series written by Mike White which has established itself as a sharp social criticism. Each season a handful of wealthy Americans on vacation — the first year in Hawaii, the second in Sicily — interact with the locals. An interaction with a great comic impact and an acute satirical vein that Simona masterfully delivers to the audience in her interpretation of Lucia, a young woman who, together with her friend Mia (Beatrice Grannò), tries to take advantage of the encounter with the rich 1 % of the world.
Certainly his career has benefited from it. Twenty-eight years old, a Neapolitan who moved to Rome since she decided, ten years ago, to be an actress, “Simona Tabasco supports Lucia’s subtle resourcefulness with a seductive sense of mystery”, writes the US version of her. Elle. Of the sex scenes imposed by the series she was, at first, a little worried. «But on the set there was an ‘intimacy coordinator’ who is a professional figure that does not exist in Italy. It was a pleasant surprise, in the end those scenes had become a simple choreography».
In Los Angeles he is enjoying his moment of international stardom, and to think that, before being noticed by the director of the Giffoni Film Festival during a beach holiday, she wanted to pursue a career in fashion: «That was my first great passion, I also thought about being a tour guide, or put up a farm, I love animals. I could have even been a DJ. I like music, especially electronic music. And I love reading contemporary art books, I would like to enroll in the degree course in Cultural Heritage.».
She’s a volcano, but she’s also modest. He doesn’t think he has anything to do with the success of “The White Lotus” whose second season of the series, in Italy on Sky, reached an average of ten million viewers per episode according to data from Warner Bros Discovery which produced it, 50% more than the first. “It was the awards and acclaim of the first season that led the way.” But many in Hollywood are convinced that that world of ostentatious luxury and human meanness has benefited from the addition — to an already important cast, with the award-winning Jennifer Coolidge and F. Murray Abraham — of the Italian talents Sabrina Impacciatore, Beatrice Grannò and, precisely, Simona Tabasco whose strong personality has helped her emerge in a role that in other circumstances could have been relegated to minors.
This is why the prestigious Forbes magazine put her on the cover, representing a group of thirty young talents to keep an eye on. This is why Kim Kardashian wanted her, together with her friend and colleague Beatrice Grannò, as a model to wear Skims, the new line of underwear and clothes by the famous US influencer. She has been friends with Beatrice for some time, since they attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome together. Friends on set and in life. “I think Mike White wanted to exploit the complicity that already existed between us.”
Avid Instagram user, confides that when the season 2 finale arrived audiences were inundated with messages of sympathy and love “especially from the United States.” She has a twin brother, Marco, from whom she steals everything “even the clothes” and who works in a record company. “Everyone has an artistic side in the family.” The father is a graphic designer. “Each of us has his own vision and therefore his own path”. Simona’s has already arrived in Hollywood.