Mauro Repetto: «Cecchetto and Pezzali? I hope when we are old we can all drink beer. The 883? With Max it ended because we were on different frequencies”

Claudio Cecchetto?
“For me he is the Italian Walt Disney, he was someone who knew how to realize his intuitions, just as he created many characters. I was always struck by his charisma: when he entered a room there was total silence; due to the personality he exudes he is almost like a spiritual entity.”

Max Pezzali?
“He was my best friend, I’ll never be able to have a best friend like him, he’s the person I was closest to. When you are his friend you become one, he has resourcefulness and generosity, he has the fusion ability to amuse you.”

Did Max and Claudio have an irrevocable argument?
«I hope they make peace one day. Before we’re three old men in wheelchairs I’d like to drink Tennent red together again.”

Repetto Mauro it was the other half at 883Max Pezzali was his classmate. Two golden years (They killed Spider-Man1993 it Northwest1994) and then decided to give it all up.

The first picture of your children?
“Max has always influenced me with the surrealism of André Breton, with one sentence he allowed me to leave the desk chair where I was dragged to enter a film in a universe parallel. I remember one of his first sentences at a school assembly: can you imagine if a chamois and an ibex appeared behind the teacher? It was like this: flash, fantastic surrealist click. Pretending to listen to what was happening around us, we set off on a journey to a completely different galaxy.”

Then you became pop stars.
«I remember the beautiful stable of Cecchetto – Jovanotti, Amadeus, Fiorello -, high stable, but we were still children, even after the Northeast Southeast we still lived with our parents».

Fiorello?
« When we won the Festivalbar in 1993, our manager had to go with Fiorello to see the first competition match, Inter-Reggiana, he was already a star so we both had leave us alone. I can see the image of us in the car, in Red Golf Max, with the fans outside the hotel and me holding a big Festivalbar cup in my hand, the cup didn’t fit in the car, it was as big as a pair of skis.”

Worst memory?
“When the frequencies changed between me and Max. Nothing broke between us, our friendship is still strong, but at a certain point this guitar came with a distorted note. The explanation I gave myself is that the duo, the pair, is the vector that goes faster from point A to point B, but it consumes so much fuel so quickly that you realize that you break down. You live on the street, get out of the car and at that time everyone goes in a different direction. As if two radios suddenly tuned to different frequencies: we no longer picked up the same notes, something happened “Davidlynchano”, Mulholland Way».

You are the one who took another side, who left everything to go to America.
« Yes, but we both talked about the American dream, in fact he had been to New York first and he told me about the New York rap scene. So it was normal for me to go see that carousel, look for that chimera that was calling me so strongly. I didn’t walk away from anything, I just followed the thirst for dreams, the only thing I didn’t underestimate was the language. I proposed myself as a screenwriter but I hardly knew how to speak English.”

He now lives in Paris.
“And I moved on to the Italian dream, I want to conquer Italian theaters. This time, however, I have an advantage because I have learned the language.”

Bringing “The Search for Spider-Man – The Tale of the 883” to the stage, the story is autobiographical.
“It’s a medieval fairy tale, the story of two waiters from Pavia who aim to bring a cage to Count Claudio Cecchetto, whose court is already full of established spies such as the the terrorist Fiorello, the young orator Lorenzo called Jovanotti, the lady Tracy Spencer, the marquise Sabrina Salerno… Also on the stage is the woman of my dreams, Brandi.”

That is Brandi Quinones, a 17 year old model with whom he fell in love. Did you find it?
“I took an emotional hit with her, but I consoled her with her friends who were so beautiful to her. It wasn’t bad for me.”

He left the 883 brand to Max Pezzali and probably lost a lot of money on it. His father said: “Besides Spider-Man, you killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.” Sorry?
“Hand. My parents have always taught me to pay attention to the lira first and then to the euro, I am not a champagne person for everyone, I have a Genoese education, I was also born there. With Max I never talked about money once in my life, we only talked about dreams and wishes. Money was never a topic of discussion between us: I left for another trip, who cares about what I left behind. “

How long did Cecchetto try to convince her to get the couple back together?
“Claudio called me many times and made me come back to Italy several times to make me change my mind: I left Los Angeles without luggage, stayed a day and went back. “

And Pezzali?
«Max – who knew me more than Claudio – knew that I was a definitive, unstoppable choice, that it was a river in the flood of the soul that could not be stopped. We had cultivated the American dream through high school and our life together: he knew I wouldn’t change my mind.”

On Sky the series «They Killed Spider-Man – The legendary story of the 883» is successful.
“I believe it is due to the extreme banality and universality of these two main Pavesian characters: two classmates who loved to spend time together and who dreamed of New York and Los Angeles. A fairy tale and universal, valid everywhere and at all times, in which millions of people recognize themselves.”

Of all the superheroes, why Spider-Man?
“I think that Peter Parker was from Pavia, he is from the province, he acts instinctively, he is the superhero of the neighborhood who is not identified like the other Avengers, he is almost the anti-hero. Someone who could sometimes be Johnny Depp and sometimes Fantozzi. And I feel like this too, sometimes Depp, sometimes Fantozzi, sometimes a pirate from the Caribbean, sometimes a humble employee of the Mega company.”