The public loved him immediately, because it’s impossible not to love Marco Giallini, a Roman and a Romanist, the face of a melancholy scoundrel, tough with a soft heart: on April 4 the actor turns 60. On April 5, the fifth season of Rocco Schiavonethe assistant commissioner of Aosta created by Antonio Manzini (the books are published by Sellerio). “Schiavone grows old with me” says Giallini, who, despite his round birthday, is not a fan of celebrations (nor of budgets). “But no, I don’t give a damn, for me it’s like when I was 35. I do the same ‘ caciara’, I say the same things, I go on a motorcycle. I really haven’t seen a birthday… since I was 18. There were three of us, I remember: me, Walter and the ‘Banana’… Then after that, not the I celebrated more. My children, on the other hand, celebrate me”.
Two smart boys, Rocco and Diego, had by his wife Loredana, who tragically died in 2011 due to a cerebral hemorrhage. He often talks about her. “Always. It comes naturally to me”, he explained “I know I’m not the only one who has lost his wife, the love of his life… It’s the way it happened: a moment before it was there, then it was gone. It’s always there for me.” Children are the future: “The eldest started working in the world of cinema as an assistant director and photographer, while the other is still studying in high school. Luckily they don’t seem to want to follow in their father’s footsteps, at least not the actor’s way.
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Rocco worked with Paul Genoese, but he would like to be a cameraman or work in the photography department. Diego, on the other hand, is attending the classical high school for now… They did the Classical, for me ‘doing the classic’ meant going around on a moped”. Before acting, he was a house painter and a soft drink seller. At the age of 22, discovery of the theater, he attended the La Scaletta school in Rome.Proud of having grown up in the suburbs, as a boy he dreamed of becoming a rock star.In the early eighties he played a band, Sandy Banana & The Monitors, with which he proposed Joy Division covers. today Giallo, as his friends call him, is a great music lover.
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Between 1988 and 1996 he worked with the greats of the theater, from Arnoldo Foà a Ennio Coltortiyes Adrian Vianello a Maurice Panici a Angel Orlando, who gave him his first important role in the cinema in 1995, the part of a policeman in the film ‘Next year I go to bed at ten’. Giallini stands out. And in 1998 the director Marco Rice calls him for The last New Year’s Eve; ride with your friend Valerio Mastandrea The smell of the nightsecond film by Claudius Caligari. From here the career takes off: in Criminal novel of the role of the Terrible. Among his most famous films, two that earned him the Silver Ribbon for Best Actor: ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards Of Stefano Sollima e Perfect strangers Of Paolo Genovese, who entrusts him with the role of the psychoanalyst father of three daughters in All Freud’s fault. Con Sergio Castellitto tour Do not move e The beauty of the donkey. Con Charles Verdone Me, them and Lara e Standing room in heaven. Then I am Storm Of Daniel Luchetti, I am Santa Claus Of Edward Falconenext to Gigi Proietti. On TV, among the many titles, Bouncer, Boris 3; since 2016 she has been wearing loden and Clarks, the uniform of the deputy commissioner Rocco Schiavone, the much-loved protagonist of the series directed by Simon Sword.
A great motorcycle enthusiast, in 2007 he was involved in a terrible accident: despite a coma and 52 multiple fractures, Giallini got back on his feet in just three months to shoot Novel criminal-The series with Sollima for Sky. “Sollima waited for me: I opened my eyes and I was surrounded by Alessandro Roja, Francesco Montanari, Vinicio Marchioni. “How are you?”. I couldn’t let them down. Everyone thought I’d be out for a year: after five months I got back on the bike, I can’t help it”.
Ironic, quick witted, natural talent, he says: “Being a scoundrel comes very naturally to me, even too much. My myth is The calvesthe maximum is Vittorio Gassman in the movie of Dino Rice The tigerhe was a genius. Befriended Alessandro Gassmann it is an honor. Only as an adult did I find out Tognazzi, Manfredi. Deaf? I take it off the list because it’s from another planet to me, like Totti. I am very attached to Marco Rice, who auditioned me after seeing me at the theatre: I was doing Angelo Orlando’s show. He called me for The last New Year’s Eve and we toured together Three tapsin which I dressed as a woman with Santamaria and Argentero”.
“To me”, he continues, “it still doesn’t seem true that I now live on cinema, it may be that I worked so hard in life. At home there was no money. I built everything piece by piece, I worked a lot… The most beautiful discovery it was the affection of the public. I don’t know what ‘being famous’ means but popularity, the fact of inspiring sympathy, gratifies me”.
Women dote on him, he has legions of fans. He laughed as he recounted the assault: “We were at the Mantua Literature Festival with the writer Antonio Manzini for Rocco Schiavone. A mess, like the arrival of the Duran Duran when they were at their best or maybe gods Beatles. There must have been two thousand women aged between 12 and 75 waiting for us, cell phones in hand. Women are strong, you don’t stop them. So I took the microphone: ‘But if I was also handsome, what were you doing?’. I displaced them and escaped with the police car, what a son of….”.
