The actress in the Parioli case and the film about Circeo: «It is wrong to forbid it to minors». The body: «I’ve always been thin, the boys defined me as flat: complexes came to me. At 15, a friend of my mother’s film agent asked me: do you want to audition? “
Benedetta Porcaroli she became a well-known face at the age of 20, playing the TV series about the Parioli baby ringers. It hasn’t stopped since. In June he will turn 24. It is in the halls with
7 women and a mystery, a breath of fresh air after two violent films like
Baby e The Catholic school, on the Circeo massacre.
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What teenager was she before she became an actress?
“I actually started very early, at 15. A friend of my mother’s is a film agent. He asked me: would you like to audition? I found myself on Rai1 in Anything could happen. They trusted, they saw something in me. I was small, unaware ».
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But she will have gone to school.
«Al Mamiani, historical high school in Rome, then I graduated privately. In those years some comrades targeted me. I’ve always been wiry. The boys were looking for butts and breasts far and wide, my friends had their shapes, I got a little complex. On Facebook they had created groups: Benedetta Porcaroli flat. Today I see my body as a salvation ».
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For the surname, who knows what they said.
“It was inevitable. But I’ve never really been worried. To blunt my father, he said to me ironic: a surname like this does not go unnoticed, they will remember you. Dad has several degrees and has done many jobs, now he teaches, it was he who passed on to me the love for cinema. Alberto Sordi, Anna Magnani; mom works at the Quirinale ».
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Is it true that he has his mother’s eye tattooed?
“Yes, over the shoulder. The message is: look at me watching you, eh … Sometimes he told me I was a beast. I am melancholy, direct, curious, reflective ».
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And beast.
«In the house my presence was noticeable. I was a busy and noisy teenager, do you know when you feel in conflict with everyone? Determined, arrogant, demanding, rebellious ».
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She grew up in Northern Rome, the same area as the Parioli baby call girls. She said: if I had stayed there, I would have become a little bitch too.
«The environment is a bit classist, the middle bourgeoisie where everything is apparently peaceful, serene; everything seems to work perfectly and it doesn’t. It is strange because I have told in two films (the very young escorts and Circeo) the cosmic void in a delicate and passing age, when it takes little to go adrift. Really sliding doors. The important thing, as it happened for me, is to know that the parents are behind it. We talked about the lack of dialogue between parents and children, the tragedy of the absent bourgeoisie ».
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One of those girls told herself in a docu-film.
“He was 14 when it all started. Today one of them works in a supermarket. I knew some of them, we saw each other in the evening in the clubs, we said goodbye. I didn’t know what was behind it. They were quiet, different from how they appear in the series. They dressed sporty, in a simple way. They weren’t that wealthy. When the scandal came out, I was shocked. No, I didn’t look for them when I was making the film and they didn’t look for me. I distanced myself from memories, I invented my character. Those two films are sides of the same coin, from a female and male point of view. Because behind the Circeo massacre there is contempt ».
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At the Venice Film Festival she told us: I could only remotely imagine a woman violated in mind and body.
«It is so. I was struck by the difference between the lack of warmth of the critics and the reactions of many of my peers who knew little about that story. Telling it was right and necessary. The boys were outraged by the censorship and the ban on minors under 18. Instead of divulging the film as much as possible … That story changed me, you understand what you have. ”
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Then the smile of «7 women and a mystery».
“I came from dark films, I was looking for new experiences, like a female comedy where seven women accuse themselves of a crime in a whirlwind of suspicion and spite.”
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Micaela Ramazzotti says that at the beginning you looked at each other with distrust.
“It is true. Now we are all friends, we have a chat where we write unreferrable things. I hated the rhetoric that women either go to war or become sisters. It is a way of self-designing. After the Me too there is more awareness, the feminism of the past, which we have inherited, no longer exists, a movement that goes beyond clichés should be born ».
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But what’s it like to grow up too fast?
“I have asked myself this many times. Mine is a job that upsets you. On the set you live in a bubble, you also forget about Covid. The important thing is not to have your head only on the cinema. I became friends with Ornella Vanoni, she calls me my little girl, let’s talk about love ».
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Who is Benedetta Porcaroli?
“I still have many stages before I really understand it.”
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January 9, 2022 (change January 9, 2022 | 07:22)
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