On 7 January M6 will broadcast a new series of Italian origin entitled White. The eponymous heroine, hired as a police trainee, has been blind since adolescence. A loss of meaning not easy to embody on the screen, for which the actress Maria Chiara Giannetta was advised by a famous singer.
Saturday, January 7 marks the launch of a new Italian series on M6. In the early evening, the channel will be broadcast the adventures of Blanca, a young police trainee accompanied by her American bulldog Linnaeus. Hired as a police consultant in the Baccigalupo police station, the young woman realizes her career dream despite her condition. While he lost his sight at the age of twelve, Blanca’s story is told on screen usingunprecedented technology: holophony, a sound recording that transcribes the sounds it hears e makes the sound of the character’s hearing superpower to the viewers.
Furthermore, if the actress Maria Chiara Giannetta slips into the role of the heroine of the same name, she also has the difficult task ofembody a blind person on the screen. In addition to the experimental technologies used for the needs of the series, the interpreter has surrounded by a choice counselor to truly embody the daily life of a blinded person.
A famous singer
In this fiction, Blanca’s professional expertise is closely linked to the loss of sight, which occurred when she was a teenager. Deprived of a sense, the policewoman has an overdeveloped hearing that allows her to hear everything. To tell this particular story with authenticity, the Apulian-born actress was recommended by a celebrity who also lost his sight at the age of twelve: the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
Born with an inherited form of glaucoma, he went completely blind following an accident. “I was hit hard in the face by a bullet in my right eyethe only one with which I could see light and color”, he revealed, quoted by the Telegraph. When she had to relearn to live without seeing, what he sang with Hélène Ségara learned braille in a special school and then began as a soloist, before becoming one of the most renowned tenors. Endowed with a crazy resilience, he has never stopped himself from indulging his passions, such as horse riding. A fighting character whose series White undoubtedly inspired.
