Fresh from the success of Don Matteo, Raoul Bova is ready to wear Don Massimo’s cassock again. While waiting, his stage colleague Francesco Scali reveals a background on the Roman actor
Everyone loves Raoul Bova. The Roman actor, who will turn 51 next August 14, has amassed a long series of successes during his thirty-year career in film and TV. After abandoning swimming, his first great youthful passion, he made his film debut at a very young age in Roberto D’Agostino’s 1992 film. Crazy Underpants. Despite having an absolutely secondary role, the former competitive swimmer immediately stood out for his beauty and skill. After the first big success on TV in the seventh chapter of the well-known series The octopusRaoul Bova became one of the most sought after actors on the small and big screen.
After almost thirty years, nothing has changed: the Roman actor, who has also tried his hand at directing, is still a superstar and the success achieved in 2022 has confirmed this. This year, in fact, the actor played the role of Don Massimo, who replaced Terence Hill’s Don Matteo in the thirteenth season of the Rai 1 series. It seemed impossible he could replace Don Matteo in the hearts of Italians and instead, despite Terence Hill will always remain the priest-policeman par excellence in the collective imagination, the fifty-year-old Roman got away very well. Some colleagues on stage also congratulated the actor, winner of the Silver Ribbon in 2009. Among them, Nino Frassica, who plays Marshal Antonio Cecchini in the series, and Francesco Scali.
The meeting between Francesco Scali and Raoul Bova
Just the latter, which in Don Matteo plays the sexton Pippo Gimignani Zarfati, he told an important background during an interview granted to Tv Smiles and Songs. Scali confessed that he did not recognize the beloved Roman actor during the first day of filming of the last season of the Rai fiction. Raoul Bova was wearing a mask and sunglasses, and the actor who plays the sexton Zarfati did not understand who he was. “He said to me ‘Good morning’ and I immediately: ‘Oh but who is this cool guy?’“he declared. When the former swimmer took off his mask and goggles, Scali was shocked: in fact, he admitted to Sorrisi that at that moment he wanted to sink. Thanks to this misunderstanding, however, the two actors have started talking and got to know each other better, and are now friends. We can’t wait to see them in action again Don Matteo 14and you?
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