David di Donatello 2022, the award to Sabrina Ferilli who “after 31 years gives some satisfaction”

In Magic Nights, the most underrated film by Paolo Virzì, Ornella Muti plays a very famous actress called to deliver the award to the best emerging screenwriter. When one of the candidates explains to her that he has always been in love with her, Muti, amused, decides to satisfy her fantasy by explaining to him that the organizers of the award took years to rehabilitate her because cinema has always been an art with a stench. under the nose that just did not conceive that she, the character of Muti, deserved to enter the magic circle. Sabrina Ferilli, a professional who owes her fame above all to iconic and popular fiction such as Orders, The wings of life And Anna and her daughtersshe entered that magic circle with guilty delay, more precisely when Paolo Sorrentino chose her for The great beauty, although, for the record, Sabrina has also worked with Monicelli and Corbucci, among others.

In this context, the David di Donatello Speciale seemed almost an act of compensation to an artist which easily entered the hearts of Italians because in that gaze and in that voice the public found a kindred spirit, and not a haughty diva light years away from them. Prejudice on television, the same one that held sway for years in America before stars like Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep agreed to cross the fence, has finally fallen to us too, and it is a relief that a well-rounded artist like Sabrina Ferilli, one of the few to go from comedy to drama with remarkable ease, has finally taken the stage that has always been her way. “The award is always something that gratifies the ego, it does not change the perception of things but, if it reaches a certain point in the career, after 31 years, as in my case, it gives a certain satisfaction”, explains Sabrina Ferilli holding Donatello’s David.

“Beautiful things are done with great directors, good screenwriters and good actors you’ve worked with”, resumes the actress before formal thanks: “Thanks to the Academy and to my family who bears me and deserves so many of David di Donatello”. Then the embrace felt with the co-host of the evening Drusilla Foer with whom Sabrina presented the last Sanremo Festival together with Amadeus: “They gave us different evenings because they believed that we would have made too much mess”, the comment of the two, arrived shortly after Drusilla imitated Loren at the time of awarding the Oscar to Roberto Benigni. For the series: everything is good that ends well.

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