Protagonist of the Rai series L’alligatore, we met the Venetian actor Matteo Martari, who gave body, voice and alcohol content to the anti-hero, a random investigator, created by the pen of the noir writer Massimo Carlotto.
Marco Buratti, said the alligator, is a former blues singer, unjustly sentenced to seven years in prison, who is left with “the fragility of former prisoners and the obsession with justice”. That is how Daniele Vicari wants to introduce the protagonist of his fiction, The alligator, from tonight 25 November on Rai2, every Wednesday for four evenings. Interprets it Matteo Martari, “Venetian in the depths of himself”, grew up immersed in those landscapes, fishing in the lagoon that give him meaning and energy, as well as “the rottenness necessary to give Alligator vitalism and melancholy at the same time”.
The words of Matteo Martari, The Alligator
But who created it, this fascinating character who resembles the anti-heroes of hard-boiled literature, those full of flaws and vices, but with a rigorous and personal sense of justice? Naturally another Venetian, the Paduan Massimo Carlotto, that in 1995 he published the first novel in the series, The Truth of the Alligator. “Thanks to that and the other novels, I had a lot of material to prepare for,” she told us Matteo Martari, committed to making the lolling gait, marked by life, of the investigator in spite of himself, who discovers he is good at police investigations, and that many lawyers are willing to pay to make him do it, obviously in an unofficial way.
So it goes on Matteo Martari, “We found ourselves in a studio for an analysis and reading of the scripts, then they made a real theatrical space available to us, where we staged the characters in a manner similar to that of a theater company. At that point it was linear for me, I just had to put the body into it, the truth unexpressed by the words. We did many hours of rehearsal, three weeks plus two of reading. A fortune I had never had before, all supervised in a constructive way by Daniele Vicari, the showrunner and director of the first and third episode. It helped a lot that I and Thomas Trabacchi, in the series my friend, so much so that the two often move together, we found ourselves spending many hours together and I think it also shows in the characters. “
Marco Martari is almost unrecognizable, when we meet him via zoom, shaved and in civilian clothes, compared to the unkempt beard and the dark circles of the alligator. Those who have known him as a model, his first approach to the world of entertainment, after completing the Hotel School, will hardly recognize him immediately in the series. For him then comes the theater, with the school Grock’s, and the film debut comes in 2015 in Happiness is a complex system of Gianni Zanasi. In the same year he joined the cast of the series Do not kill, in the role of the policeman Andrea Russo, which will also return in the second season. A dozen films and television series, here he is in the role of the alligator, starting tonight in prime time, at 21.20, on Rai2.
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