Italian actors, directors and dubbers support the ‘battle’ of Pierfrancesco Favinowho made his voice heard from Venice Film Festival 2023. “Italian audiences will again have faith in Italian cinema when they see Italian actors enter international productions. It’s the little battle I’m having that I say Italian roles must be played by Italian actors,” he said of the roles of Italian actors in foreign films, which portray symbolic figures of our country, as in the case of Enzo Ferrariplayed by the American actor Adam Driverin the film in competition Ferrari Of Michael man. A statement that continues to be discussed and which receives broad approval among Favino’s colleagues, even if there is no lack of opposing voices and those who allow themselves a good-natured joke: “Why, Picchio wanted to do Ferrari too? Did he have time?”, he said. said Giorgio Tirabassi.
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“There is an identity problem”
“I am pleased that Favino, whom I respect, has arrived there, and that others support him, I am happy. They always get there six months or a year later, now everyone finally wakes up. But I had already arrived there for some time, first”. To say it is Luke Barbareschi. “I had spoken to him about the problem of Italian narration, of Italian identity, of Italian companies. It is a fundamental battle, because there are few of us left who are truly Italian”, continues Barbareschi, a guest at the Lido as producer of The palace Of Roman Polanski and to present the film The penitent directed by him. And he underlines: “Here I am seeing embarrassing films in English. There is an identity problem. There are some Spaniards who think it is enough to say ‘hey you, pass me the pasta’ to play an Italian”.
A scene from ‘Ferrari’
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“The algorithm chooses the actor”
In Barbareschi’s film “my character – he explains – recites in English, but he is an Argentine psychoanalyst who uses the language of the place where he lives, New York. And this makes sense. But if I do Dante Alighieri, or tell something of the structure, of the Italian narrative architrave, then no, it’s not acceptable”. “They impose narrative structures on us, now the algorithm chooses the actor according to the liking of the platform. But the algorithm is stupid. Do we want to stop it or do we continue to take the piss?” concludes Barbareschi.
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The others in favour
Also for Pupi Avati “Favino is absolutely right. Since it often happens that Americans make films about Italians, he has a perfect sense that they are played by Italians ”. An opinion, that of the director, in tune with Edwige Fenech: “Favino is right, the Americans have had much more space in Italian films than the other way around”.
“I understand Pierfrancesco Favino’s reasoning and it is truly a pity that iconic roles in our history, such as that of Enzo Ferrari, are played by non-Italian actors. There can be no controversy about this: I agree with Pierfrancesco al one hundred percent,” the actress said Caterina Murinogodmother of the Venice Film Festival.
Adam Driver in a still photo from Michael Mann’s film ‘Ferrari’
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The comparison with Anna Magnani
Second Monica Guerritore, “we must not generalize, but there are characters with such a definite identity that only by recreating it can they be made universal, which is why I fully agree with Favino. I too have been told that if I had entrusted the role of Magnani to an American star I would have conquered the world market, but Magnani can only be played by an Italian actress. We are our language, our gestures, our shared memory, our excesses and our resistance to adversity, our energy. All this tells us, not just a scenography”.
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“More attention to Italian cinema”
“There is a need for greater attention towards Italian cinema and therefore it should be protected”, said the actor and director Marco Bocci. “If two fronts are created, one in favor of Favino’s statement and one against, I am aligned with the favorable front”, said the actor and director Rocco Papaleo.
“Having said that the choice of actors is made by the directors, Favino is right to bring forward the Italian actors. And if he doesn’t do it, who at the moment has a great exposure, those who take responsibility for breaking the banks of the triviality and to tell something that perhaps is said in a small circle of people but then no one has the courage to say it to the rooftops”, added the actor and director Alessandro Siani.
“Favino is absolutely right. We dubbers in unsuspecting times went on strike in favor of this issue when for the Betrothed foreign people were taken, including Danny Quinnand we said ‘thank you, no: Italian films need Italian actors'”. Pino I teachactor, voice actor and host.
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“Blame the dubbing”
Mads Mikkelsen, a world-renowned Danish star, instead points the finger at dubbing: “If France, Germany, Italy and Spain stopped dubbing films in all languages, this could be an important element, but as long as they continue with dubbing , who cares what the original language is? I never understood why you do this thing, crazy for me. And then we saw Tom Cruise playing a Nazi officer (Operation Valkyrie, ndr) with a slight German accent for four minutes and then become full-blown American from there on. You can do that in this type of movie, but in others it definitely makes them less believable.”
And opposite
“I dissociate myself – he says clearly Edward Fish – It’s a bit like in my small way when I played the mobster John Brusca (in fiction The hunter ed) and an actor from Palermo at Vucciria took it out on me for not being Sicilian. I learned the dialect, the coach sent me sentences to practice on even if I almost didn’t understand what they meant, language can be learned. For me Adam Driver can do Ferrariwhat matters is the meaningful characterization of the character”.
“Dear Favino, in the last thirty years, Italian cinema has not created a recognizable star system in the world, as it did in Gassman’s time”, was instead the comment of Andrea IervolinoCEO of the Ilbe Group among the producers of the film Ferrari.
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A complex issue
“The theme raised by Pierfrancesco Favino, who is a dear friend of mine, is a very complex issue – he commented instead Gabriele Salvatores – on which we should reflect in more depth and in any case the fact that we are discussing it today demonstrates the importance of the issue”.
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The teasing of Tirabassi
“But why, did Picchio want to go ahead with Ferrari? Did he have time?”. It’s the joke with which Giorgio Tirabassi comments on the words of my colleague Favino. “Perhaps Favino is right because an Italian character should be made by an Italian and opportunities for actors sometimes make history. Some roles and some films are connected to certain actors. But it is Favino’s point of view, as well as others Italian actors”.
“Maybe American production has seen Adam Driver obviously for this role… apart from the fact that Driver is a very good actor”, adds Tirabassi, specifying that he has not seen the film. “However, Ferrari already did it Castellitto, is a project that has already been done in Italy. Then if this is a controversy, I take a step back on the controversies. I respect what Pierfrancesco says”.
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