Has the only Italian film in competition at Locarno Festival (The girls), a dense season of theatrical and cinematographic commitments yet Cristina Donadio It doesn’t seem tired at all. The 70 -year -old Neapolitan actress enjoys the golden moment of his career and does not think of the pension in the least (or perhaps yes, but then he immediately chase away the thought).
Multitasking, full of life and sunny, has inside the fire of his land, but tries to take a small break on the last days of August, before resuming at full speed. TO Vanity Fair It is told in the round before the holidays, passing from maternity to 16 years of age to get to the breast cancer, discovered at the apex of professional success, during the filming of the series Gomorrahwho interpreted in the iconic clothes of Scianel. Today it is testimonial of cancer research with AIRCon the front line for the defense of women with the association One one hundred thousand and among the faces of the short of Anna Foglietta It is as it seemson gender harassment. But this is only the beginning of a new chapter to be discovered.
It is difficult to keep up with all his projects. What are the next in which it will be busy?
«After a movie in October, I will be in the theater in December with I cannot narrate my life by Roberto went with Nino Musella. He is a tribute to Enzo Moscato with whom I worked for 30 years. In the meantime, I shot the exact weight of the void with Peppe Servillo, the painful and intimate story of a brother and sister who have lost sight of for 25 years, previewed at the Sanità Film Festival because the neighborhood becomes a third character of the story. He is a priest from Naples, she a classical dance teacher, an apparently resolved woman. When this grumpy and gruff man has a stroke, the protagonist brings him back to his parents’ house, where he had not set foot for a long time because he contains mysteries and secrets ».
What did the role left you?
“The awareness that what you remove sooner or later will come back to the surface and you have to deal with it.”
Are you familiar with complicated brotherhood relationships?
«No, even if I have four sisters and a brother (unfortunately he died of a heart attack at 50) and I know the domestic dynamics well. I can’t imagine how a member of one’s family can be disavowed nor how it is able to painfully reconstruct a relationship between things not said or made. In my life I have always experienced a splendid relationship in the house ».
How did you make something that is so foreign to her?
«An actor leaves behind what it is to make sure that the soul enters and comes out of the most diverse situations. This time I approached on tiptoe because I come from a completely different reality, a large particularly united family, with the grandparents under the same roof and the beach under the house where you went with cousins and uncles. My deepest memory remains that of the days at the sea together, with these wonderful slow rhythms ».
Judging by his work commitments, it would not be said that he has a passion for the Slow Life.
“Yet it is like this: I have a congenital laziness that leads me to postpone everything.”
What is grateful for his life for?
«First of all, for this immense gift called family, a firm point of which I cannot do without and with which I create projects every day. For this reason my brother’s disappearance was like the loss of a limb, a lack that does not recover ».
What convinced it, however, to participate in the documentary Roberto Bracco, on the Italian intellectual of the same name that challenged fascism?
“The rediscovery of this author in many ways forgotten, to whom the Nobel Prize was denied for political reasons and who, refusing a annuity, ended up dying in misery in order not to bend to the reason for state. In this reconstruction of Paolo Mieli I play Emma Gramatica, an actress who becomes the reference of the regime and tries to convince him to bend but cannot be able to be “.
For the first time on the screen he was then directed by two directors in the film The girls, in which he plays a grandmother out of the patterns. What experience was it?
«An immense joy full of poetry: the Bertani sisters stage their relationship as a child with very clear ideas. It is a training story on the contrary, where the gaze of these girls on the world of adults counts, therefore distorted and exaggerated, almost crossed by fear ».
Did he ever wonder about this profession as a parent?
“Always: being a parent is one of the most difficult jobs that exists because you think you do a right thing but it is not always the case.”
In the film he plays a grandmother sui generis. What struck her about the character?
«This is a very rich woman, adorable to being outside the box, one who says that only with money is happy with the money, which houses infinite breakfasts with champagne and drinks only water perrier. He has a great love for his granddaughter – who then meets the two protagonists – while instead with his daughter he expresses a dysfunctional bond ».
What grandmother is she in life?
“I’ve always been a mother and grandmother out of time. My son Antonio was born on November 5, the day of my sixteenth birthday, so everyone in the family became his parents. I remember that I breastfeed during recreation at school and I felt a bit like the sister because we grew up together ».
How did your mother react?
“He said to me continuously:” I take care of him, you think about studying. ” Then I got married and then he repeated me that it was not the case: “You are two children, two idiots, what are you doing?”. And shortly after we separated. “
Has his son also became a dad soon?
“When my first nephew was born I finally wanted to be a grandmother but Antonio didn’t agree:” You think about acting “. Now my grandchildren are 25 and 23 years old and I hope to become great -grandmother and I hope that this time someone does not come out with the story that I am old and I have to rest. I have already candidate to give a bath. We feel every day on the phone and as soon as I can see you, even if they all live in the Caribbean. I should have said: “I come and I’m there”, but now it’s okay. “
What relationship do you have with Antonio?
«I consider it my best friend, it’s only one but it is valid for five. I taught him that everything is possible and that life should be experienced in bites, with courage and sense of pleasure to feel good at the end of the day (the word “happiness” is not uncomfortable because it would be too much). It is empathic as me, we have the same character and the way of thinking ».
Was it difficult to see him go away?
“He was just twenty years old, pushed by the unconsciousness of the age and the experience of my parents who had lived there. He found himself well, he met love and decided that this was his place, even if it was not easy for me and it seems a film story. Sometimes I think I have lived nine lives and he at least seven of these ».
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Do you ever think, after 50 years of career, to leave the acting behind and finally enjoy the fruits of his work?
«Sometimes yes, I would like to decline my favorite verb,” stay “, let my day slip without doing anything, apart from coffee, but I know I wouldn’t be able to. I always say that in an actor’s head there is a wardrobe full of characters with drawers full of the words they said. At my age they begin to weigh and are lightened, but if I close my eyes I see dialogues scrolling in me that date back to 35 years ago. I hate that my colleagues speak of “doing” a role, for me it is “being” that role. After a decade still not a day passes that someone calls me Scianel or does not ask me for a video with his voice ».
How do you react?
«So I always, on the other hand, what does it cost me to smile for a selfie? Scianel knocked on my door – and thank goodness! – The space took place in the closet with his leopardy rompers and the public loves it, despite being a Camorist who tells the horror ».
How if he explains it?
«I believe that the membrane that separated Cristina from Scianel let something of mine, a pinch of humanity. Of course, he is a boss who kills people but has also given up his femininity, his daughter -in -law says he would like to be free, aware of being part of a rotten system. It has become an archetype of evil, to the point that today they talk to me about “scianelitude” and people repeat his iconic phrases ».
Do you miss it?
“No, because this Gascona is always with me.”
Will you make some raids in Gomorrah – The origins, the series coming to Sky?
«Not in the first season, which tells the protagonists of twenty -year -olds when Scampia was not yet Gomorra City, but who knows that a cameo does not arrive. On the other hand, there is a first and after Gomorrah in the history of TV and in my personal “.
In what sense?
«I discovered the breast cancer during that period but I also hid the operation for production, on the set I didn’t tell anyone until Scianel’s death so as not to worry them. I know that the disease changes the gaze of others on you and you start to hear anxiety in their voice. I would have been penalized twice, by the short circuit of cancer and the loss of Scianel, which instead was my superhero dress. For the filming we did the nights and the dawn and in the meantime I could live a more fragile Cristina ».
What did this pain taught her?
«Not to give up doing the things we like, if we have strength and energy, I speak of small gratifications such as cooking a dessert, even if you feel nausea for chemo and then you don’t eat it. I do not pretend to speak for absolute, nor do I use the rhetoric of the warrior because I would not have liked to make any war, but I tell my story and I use my visibility to be next to those who fight ».
What other theme is very close to you?
«This profession requires discipline, but also the ability to know how to get involved instead of building a frame around. I want to be a person among people, that’s why, for example, I talked about menopause with irony in the Vamp podcast that talks about the vampires with great humor. It makes you laugh at a taboo topic while there is reason, what’s better? ».
Source: Vanity Fair
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