Lidia Poët 2 returns to Netflix with the second season and continues the story of Italy’s most beloved lawyer in Turin at the end of the 19th century
The Law of Lidia Poët 2 it was highly anticipated and, once it arrives on the online platform, it will already be at the top of the ranking of the most watched series. 6 new episodes – created by Guido Iuculano and Davide Orsini and produced by Matteo Rovere’s Greenlandia, who directed it with Letizia Lamartire and Pippo Mezzapesa – continue one of the most heartfelt stories of female emancipation: that of Lidia Poëtthe first woman in Italy to enter the Bar Association in 1920.
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The series, winner with the first season at the Nastri d’Argento Grandi Serie 2023 of the Best ‘Crime’ Series awardsees in the cast, as well as Matilda De Angelis in the role of the protagonist, Eduardo Scarpetta (Jacopo Barberis), Pier Luigi Pasino (Enrico Poët, Lidia’s brother), Sara Lazzaro and Sinéad Thornhill (respectively Teresa Barberis, Enrico’s wife, and Marianna Poët, their daughter) e Dario Aita (Andrea Caracciolo). He joins them Gianmarco Saurinoin the role of prosecutor Fourneau, a great admirer of Lidia (but we won’t give you any further spoilers).
Eduardo Scarpetta
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Gianmarco Saurino
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If you ask the actress who gives her body and soul, Matilda De Angelis, what most unites her with the characterreplies that «the actor’s work is a game of empathy and imagination, so it is normal that we all draw on our personal baggage and always bring something of our intimacy and who we are to the stage. The thing that amuses me, however, is always trying to play characters that are as distant from myself as possible. Like Lydia. With her, however, I share strength, determination and also irony.”
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Moving on to the topic of costumes, it is inevitable to think about what could be, for De Angelis and not for Poët, the mise favored – perhaps with a more special sentimental meaning – of the many look changes over the course of the series. He explains to us that it is «the same costume from the first season, the purple and red one, which has become iconic for me. I only put it back in the last episode, I find it to be the common thread between Lidia in the first episodes and Lidia now. I can’t explain exactly why it is my favorite but in my eyes it contains its style, its soul. In the second season there are incredible clothes, Stefano (Ciammitti) has outdone himself but for me that costume remains legendary. I find it to be a sort of uniform; when Lidia puts it on she becomes a superhero».
