Caterina Guzzanti: “But as adults we continue to love strong as when we were teenagers?”

In the hyperconnex chaos of the digital era, Caterina Guzzanti Keep doing what you do best: to observe, deconstruct, tell. With irony and intelligence it crosses the languages, also of the web, and transforms them into tools to tell who we are today, to try to understand each other. It will also do so Videocittà 2025 – Festival of vision and digital culture scheduled from 3 to 6 July at the Gazometer of Rome. The Festival celebrates the 800th anniversary of the Canticle of creatures And he puts the sun at the center of the program, as a symbol of energy and transformation. Theme that is reflected in Solarthe large light installation of Quayola which will turn on the G4 G4 gazometer. On the bill, together with many guests, the Victoria De Angelis DJ set with unpublished visuals, the immersive experiences of Jan Kounen and the video art of Luyang and Lawrence Lek.

But alongside digital art and spectacular visions, Video Continue to question our present. Also thanks to voices such as that of Caterina Guzzanti. Will be among the protagonists of The best internet everthe series of talk curated by Nicolas Ballario which focuses the contemporary narratives born online. Among the most recognizable actress and author of the Italian artistic panorama, Guzzanti has always worked on the border between costume and satire. From TV to social networks, to the recent return to the theater (It will be staged at the Umberto room in Rome from 8 to 12 October 2025) with According to her, Prose and directing text signed by her, with whom she refined a look that intercepted with sensitivity the codes of the present, without ever stopping to detonate them. In the center: the fragility declined in all its shades.

Caterina Guzzanti and Federico Vigorito

What is fragility for you?
«I realized that the fragility is really stripping, showing one’s individuality with all its flaws. It is something that exists in the social context. We are fragile when we are forced to face the judgment of others. In my show I tell that even from the front of the person who in theory should be within the couple, therefore in a protected space or those who take care of us not in an parental way but as an adult also there the management of the thing is unpredictable. I think fragility is one of the engines almost like the sense of guilt, those things that really send us forward on our tracks for kilometers without realizing it ».

What was the last time she felt fragile?
«I feel fragile every time I am attacked on social networks, which is a world that however stands on the negative judgment. I feel fragile when I think I can’t explain and this always happens on social media. It is difficult to catch what you can think about you at that moment and correct it at the same time, fortunately, after ten minutes everyone is forgotten »

What relationship do you have with social networks?
«I spend too much time on social media, I am ashamed of it. Now I don’t look at the weekly reports anymore, however there are moments of life in which I shake a lot, like when they are on tour or on the set. At one point the algorithm only offered me some improbable American astrologers, I looked too much horoscope. It makes me laugh a lot what the algorithm of me thinks: horoscope, thrones of swords, dragons, horses, and many maternity things ».

For example?
“Seven errors that the last one will surprise you.”

Find that the social world has made us more alone or has it simply made our condition evident?
«It seems evident to me, already from the behavior of the boys and the studies who say they no longer meet. I get very angry when my 10 -year -old son invites two friends who come with the tablet and then each play on his tablet, one on the bed, one on the sofa and I tell him “sorry, and one on the carpet?”. As soon as you have a device in your hand then stand still all day with the presumption of being with others and not to lose what is hype at that moment. It seems useful to me for 10 percent ».

Compared to female identity, find that social networks have been more tools of emancipation or limit?
“There is this escalation on the aesthetics that seems to me a great relaunch to those who shoot it bigger and however it is a part. I hear many professionals talk about many topics in various fields and this is significant. The important thing is not to read the comments below because, if you go to see how women are taken, in general, when they talk about anything, they always come a little snubbed in a patriarchal way ».

So don’t you read the comments?
«Yes, I read them, unfortunately. And if out of ten one is negative, I remember that. They can hurt me and then I realize that they are often people to whom you answer they deflate in a second, they immediately lower the ridge, they give you her suddenly ».

Returning to his show, he is also his first direction. What freedom took?
«On the stage of a theater you have to take responsibilities that are narrative because you are telling a story that lasts more than an hour and not six minutes like a television sketch. Imagine two people who speak in a room and who then go out and something happens, just as we are imagined to place life and instead then stage it in a space that can be so empty and so full of everything you can imagine how a stage is very strange. I made myself a lot of help from Paola Rota who is a friend and director, who signed artistic advice and from my partner in the show Federico Vigorito, who is also a director. They helped me to find jumps, passages that are the freedom of the theater to which I was not prepared because you really feel in front of the emptiness of the infinite possibilities and you are only you who must choose a path consistent with what your story is ».

Federico Vigorito, his partner in the show, is on stage with her.
“In his opinion It is a story that is based on incommunicability and the crisis of silences. She, who is on stage, asks him what he thinks, what happens in his head, but he does not know how to explain or does not want to take the briga and pain of explaining it and therefore she makes him think out loud. Federico, his character is absolutely co -star and balanced with my perfectly half as a presence ».

Speaking of incommunicability in relationships, in your opinion, what does it keep us so united even when it all seems finished?
«I tell a situation where apparently at least from her point of view it is impossible to go out. These are situations that I have seen and we see around us. The answer is always a bit of fear, the fact that they taught us that the family is sacrifice, love is suffering, you will give birth to pain, that the role especially of women is to be patient, to be welcoming, to be a bit like my grandmother said, to find a balance in the couple, but a balance in which everyone has his duties, each controls things of the family sphere and therefore can be renounced. “

Do you agree?
«No, I think that we should surely be happy with our independence and of our solidity, of our conquests and our possibilities, things that society often does not offer us. Love should be an addition of happiness, which makes you feel better but that if Levi does not collapse. Instead, perhaps many people remain together because they are afraid of collapsing or because they are clinging to a raft in which two re -ments because alone you cannot. And this I think it is truly the fault of the few possibilities we have, simply just to get to the end of the month, but also emotionally not to feel crushed ».

What relationship do you have with love?
«I really like it, I now suffer because for a while I have not been in love and I would really like to fall in love with it. I wondered, in a very rational way, if the fact of not falling in love with that explosion that at least I felt up to 30-35 years, was linked to age. I always try to give a Darwinian reading and I ask myself: why does nature no longer make me feel that urgency of having that person next to that even if you rationally know that it is not good for you, but you go to fix and you only want him? Perhaps, it may be that you arrive at a certain age, since nature does everything from the point of view of the continuity of the species, then, perhaps, since it is not worth it, it is not even worth wasting all these hormones? I see myself and I describe myself in love and when it doesn’t happen for some time, I’m sorry, it seems all to me wasted but I am confident. It takes more and more strength to share, but let’s try. Then this is the right period ».

Summer?
“Yes, we are very close to the adolescent memories of the summer, even if we have now learned to stay still and immobile at home because it is too hot outside”.