On October 21, she turns 70 years old, a year ago she became a grandmother, but the one who speaks non-stop for 91 minutes and 32 seconds (those read by the recorder) looks like a clockwork girl. And that’s how it’s always been, Eleanor Giorgi. A woman with a life full of everything – for better or for worse – sometimes even reckless, sometimes curious and brave. Three days later, on August 23, the unforgettable Nadia di Borotalco accepted the challenge to take the stage in the small village of Moliterno in the province of Potenza to read a text about Carlo Pisacana written by 50-year-old Angelo Mellone, a versatile new director. from Rai Day Time Entertainment.
Eleanor Giorgi: “Verdone shocked me. Celentano is the sexiest, we had a lot of fun. People over 55 are discriminated against.”
How are you?
“Good. I’m finally a grandmother and just crazy about my one-year-old grandson Gabriele. Otherwise, after a life sentence, as an innocent, I want to take back what belongs to me.”
Please?
“For at least this last part of my career, I would like to get back to having my say, as I know I can. After all, ten years ago, my films have grossed the equivalent of 280 million euros at the box office. On the other hand, the whole Rizzoli affair, from the first meeting to the collapse of the empire and the divorce from Angelo, turned me into a target for insults that made me pass for an opportunist and a hunter for wealth. An infamous brand that ruined me professionally. Enough, more than forty years have passed.
Give an example.
“The left has always ruled the entertainment world in one way or another, and since then it has always been this environment that has killed me, a paradoxical thing if I think that my father was the partner of the set designer Giulia Mafai, sister of Miriam. , historian partner of communist leader Giancarlo Padgetta. I remember an evening with people from cinema and television: I talk about my misadventures and from another room, for no reason, I hear a cry: “George, reboot.” It was Gianni Boncompagni.”
When did you realize that you needed to take a step back?
“The day Carlo Verdone called me to the film after shooting My Sister and Me with Ornella Muti and not with me, which threw me into disarray, because after the success of Talca, I thought I would shoot it myself. I go and I am offered one of the many small Odnoklassniki roles. I agreed, but then closed with a cinema. It was 1988. I retired to the countryside with Massimo Chavarro. We started buying up old farmhouses to renovate and then resell.”
Now what would you like?
“Simple. At almost seventy, I am very clear: I would like directors such as Paolo Virzi, Paolo Genovese, Ferzan Ozpetek, Gabriele Muccino to remember me and return their stories to me, writing roles for women of my age.”
Some time ago you were talking about fatwas in Italian cinema for women over sixty.
“Yes, because no one thinks about us. There are only roles like a grandmother who bakes pies, or a little stoned, and that’s it. I belong to the first generation of women who went to work, won sexual freedom, emancipated, and now only stereotypes affect us? Cinema must recognize the importance of this identity.
Besides Chavarro, did your second husband, 65, have a younger partner?
“Yes, sure”.
How much younger?
“Thirty years”.
Toy boy.
“No please. It was a good story. We were calm, the problems – many – came from others. Prejudice.”
Let’s talk about how long ago?
“Fifteen years ago. On this topic, I wrote the film “Love Story Locked Up”, a love meeting of a 65-year-old woman and a 25-year-old guy, and it occurred to me why during quarantine. It wasn’t Brad Pitt, but that’s how I imagined it. This is a story full of joy and feelings.”
It will do?
— I’m afraid not as I wrote. They liked it, but they explained to me that Italian cinema does not need quarantine stories. We’ll see soon.”
Is it true that you have a box of letters from Oriana Fallaci in your house?
“Yes. Angelo Rizzoli introduced her to me one evening, at the end of which she told me that she was surprised. He had prejudices against me: an actress, a beauty, a blonde … you never know what a fool. But instead … During we talked and wrote to each other a lot for a year. He told me about Panagoulis. An exceptional woman. Then I secretly married, Angelo wanted so much, Oriana found out about it and was terribly disappointed. I wanted her to be my witness. Years later, hell broke loose, while in New York’s Trump Tower I was photographing for the launch of The Naked Woman, from a distance I saw her descending the stairs. I didn’t see her. He associated me with P2, with the scandal, the malfeasance.”
And the dinners at the Quirinal with Sandro Pertini?
“He was a friend of Angelo and was very funny and exuberant. He liked me, and he greeted me with hugs, like a cheerful old man: “Rizzoli, you allow it, don’t you?” He said. And he took me by the hand to show the palace gardens.”
Is the list of rematches long?
“There is no list. I don’t like rematches, but victories.”
Do you feel indebted or indebted to life?
“Even. So much joy, so much pain. However, the love, respect and sympathy of people is something more. This year I had awards all over Italy. This thing touches me. And for this I try to always be impeccable. You have to deserve it” .
Does he have real friends?
“I always had a few, but very good ones. This year I met a new friend, which also portends love. I have been alone for many years and I don’t know why. Maybe I don’t seem interested.”
You’ve had two facelifts: Are you afraid of old age?
“I’m already old. I have an aesthetic and conceptual horror of physical decay. I’m ready for any trick, just not to see death in life. I want to leave life with a normal, natural face, appropriate for my age. I don’t want to be cool, but I don’t want to look dead.”
What do you have in mind?
“The rise. I did two: the neck and the chin. This skin that fell down impressed me. If necessary, I will do more.”
Is it true that the first happened thanks to Ferzan Ozpetek?
“In a certain way, yes. Many years ago he told me that he was in love with my wrinkles: “Never remove them.” I left them, I waited for him, he never called me, and then I had my first facelift I am angry with him.”
In “Talk Powder” he wore a wig: isn’t the curls his?
“Only in Velvet Hands and My Wife Is a Witch, I didn’t wear it. My hair was too long and delicate.”
Will Big Brother do it again?
“Definitely. The cast wasn’t the best, but I was paid to do nothing. Never before.”
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