Edoardo Leo and the fragility of relationships in 30 nights with my ex: “Why are two people, although they love each other very much, can’t be together?”

«It often happens, two people love each other very much and yet they can’t be together without understanding why. Is what she explores 30 nights with my exin addition to being one of the themes to make it a universal story ». This is how Edoardo Leo presents the new film by Guido Chiesa in which he is the protagonist with Micaela Ramazzotti And that will arrive in the room from April 17th thanks to Piperfilm.

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The titles of the marriage with the director Paolo Virzì, the story with Claudio Scallica, personal trainer, and the media pillory suffered. Again: the relationship with teenage children and the education that Micaela Ramazzotti herself has received. In this interview the actress, soon in the cinema with 30 nights with my exit’s not silent

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The story of Bruno, played by the Roman actor, who has to host ex -wife Terry (Ramazzotti) for a month, suffering from a mental illness that makes her feel the voices, ready to be reinforced in everyday life after a period spent in a specialized clinic. Thus, on the insistence of his daughter Emma, the debutant to the cinema Gloria Harveythe man agrees to host it by seeing his life full of rules and order catapulted into chaos. A rigidity that is time to leave behind, although it is a consequence of the experience and relationship previously with Terry. «It is like when you are brothers, if one is more mattacchion then the other must be the balanced one. It is a sort of non -said rule that I believe it also applies to relationships and certainly is what happens between Bruno and Terry. But, in the end, These are still love And the film simply shows us how much, often, it is difficult even if only to be able to coexist ».

30 nights with my ex and the ability to put on the other’s shoes

Just as it is not easy sometimes to understand or, even more, try to really imagine what you feel or feel the other. Which the characters do in one of the sequences of 30 nights with my exan exercise that Leo highly recommends to everyone: «As an old proverb says, Before judging someone you do some kilometers with his shoes». Bruno’s character must therefore try to understand what moves within Terry, who for his part has completely accepted his condition, of which he is not ashamed: “He always talks about it, continuously”, says Micaela Ramazzotti. «Because the discomfort does not increase by facing things, on the contrary, it is exactly the opposite. The human mind is made of fears, of fragility. But you can heal, you can be able to stay in the world, thanks above all to the clinics and spaces that take care of people who live the same situation as Terry. But the truth is always that you have to be afraid of those who are outside these structures, not who is inside».

This is what tries to do the Dolceamara comedy, with the actress who was fascinated by the enthusiasm of her character and her feeling every day as if he were in the world for the first time. “I have made pazzerelle at the cinema», The interpreter continues. «But usually they were very closed women in their interiority, in their depression. This time I liked the idea of ​​exploring an active character, hungry for life, who showed that we must not be afraid to relate to mental illness, let alone make it a stigma ». It was exactly the intention of the director Guido Chiesa, or to combine a delicate topic The lightness of ironyof humor, of being able to laugh at everything together. “There are many wonderful films that deal with the theme of mental health from a dramatic point of view,” explains Chiesa. “But with a protagonist like Terry we felt he could hook us to the ways of making Italian comedy of the past in which serious issues were taken and then telling them with humor”.

When it is difficult to welcome the “different”

Another possibility glimpsed by the director was also the opportunity to take the detail of a wedding like that of his characters and use it not only to talk about the obstacles that are found to face couples and their inability sometimes to accept themselves, but by widening their gaze and showing the public how such a theme can be applied to any person. Especially when it comes to who we feel distant from us, Who we consider “different”. “30 nights with my ex Everyone concerns us because it shows us how complex it can be to relate to the other, that it can be as a partner as a son, a friend, a employer, his own neighbor, “says the director. «The other is always our limit, we often can’t accept it because we would like it as we want it. Therefore all that remains is to get rid of the cards, as happens with Bruno who closed himself on himself, frightened by Terry who is full of life ».

To act as a glue between the two characters, a bit like the gold of the Japanese technique Kintsugi who is used in the film as a metaphor, there is the almost sixteen -year -old daughter of the couple, the young Emma played by Gloria Harvey and for the first time on the big screen. “It was a great emotion to recite near Edoardo and Micaela. I was lucky because they did not make me feel any pressure, making everything easier. In addition, I found myself on a human level in the role of Emma, ​​who represents in the film the ring that tries to bring together his family together ». The girl goes beyond the condition of the mother and also helps the viewer to get in tune with the character of Ramazzotti: «Emma sees love, the fact that they want to be well, he does not fear to be next to a person who suffers, as happens to many. I felt it very close, like living with someone who is considered different, and in her way of welcoming her mother in her life I caught infinite sweetness ». To embrace you too, the different one who is out there just has to wait for the April 17thday of exit of 30 nights with my ex distributed by Piperfilm.

Source: Vanity Fair

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