This Monday, a new week of competition begins on El Hormiguero and La Revuelta, while David Broncano’s programme is betting on not revealing its guests. Pablo Motos’ line-up has been announced since last week and he will be presenting himself today with Johnny Depp and Riccardo Scamarcio to promote the film Modi, three days on the wing of madness. For this new work, the Hollywood actor has gone behind the cameras to direct and make the Italian Scamarcio, who stars in the film, shine.
Riccardo Scamarcio is a well-known Italian actor who has been making waves since he became famous with the TV series Compagni di scuola (2001). He was born on 13 November 1979 in Trani, Italy, and is the son of a painter and a restaurant manager. Until he was 16, he lived in Andria until he moved to Rome to study at the Centro Sperimentale, where he worked with Mirella Bordoni, Mino Bellei, Marco Baliani and especially Nicolai Karpov.
He is known for his acting versatility and for having established himself as one of the most prominent faces of Italian cinema. His career is characterized by a wide variety of roles, from romantic dramas to thrillers and action productions.
Scamarcio rose to fame in Italy in the early 2000s with the film Tre metri sopra il cielo (2004), based on the novel by Federico Moccia. This romantic drama about young love catapulted him to the status of a youth idol in his country and established him as one of the most promising actors of his generation.
Throughout his career he has worked with some of the most important directors in Italy and Europe, demonstrating his versatility and ability to play complex characters. Some of his most notable roles are Romanzo criminale (2005), a crime film directed by Michele Placido, where he plays a gangster; Il passato è una terra straniera (2008), a drama about the moral decomposition of two friends; or Mine vaganti (2010), a comedy-drama directed by Ferzan Özpetek, which earned him critical praise for his performance.
Once his career in Italian cinema was established, the actor made the international leap and has since worked in films such as John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), where he plays Santino D’Antonio, the antagonist of the protagonist played by Keanu Reeves; or Loro (2018), directed by Paolo Sorrentino, where he played a character inspired by Gianpaolo Tarantini. Now his new project, alongside Johnny Depp, has led him to play the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
Career as a producer
Riccardo Scamarcio has also ventured into film production, collaborating on several projects as a producer. In 2010, he founded his own production company, Buena Onda, together with actress Valeria Golino, with whom he maintained a personal and professional relationship for many years. This production company has focused on independent and auteur projects.
The romances of Riccardo Scamarcio
The truth is that in recent years there have been many love stories surrounding the artist. The first relationship that is known is the one he had with the actress Valeria Golino and lasted from 2006 to 2018. The reasons for the breakup were never known because the two chose to remain completely silent. After that, in 2019, another relationship emerged between Riccardo and manager Angharad Wood, director of Tavistock Wood, a very famous agency. With her he had his daughter Emily in 2020.
After her, the name of Benedetta Porcaroli resounds, an actress much younger than Scamarcio who seems to have won his heart. However, in 2022 they briefly broke up to get back together in 2023.
