Edoardo Pesce: “I studied the rehabilitation to tell a body that no longer responds”

Like drops of water. This is how they say when two resemble each other. For the protagonists of the film written and directed by Stefano Chiantini There is a further element. The water, in fact, is what daughter Jenny have in common, played to her first role for cinema from Sara Silvestroand his father Alvaro, the veteran of the Italian panorama Edoardo Pesce. Former swimmer he, promising competitive star she, the two share love for the same sport even when everything else makes them very distant. The main reason, however, is only one: the removal of man from his family. A life spent together and suddenly interrupted, as well as the marriage with the daisy of Barbara Chichiarelli. But there are many non -said children and parents and this also occurs in the relationship of Like drops of waterwho will take a whole other turn when Alvaro is hit by a ailment that will force him to constant treatments and bring him back to the hostile daughter.

“With all that is happening in the world at this moment, talking about a film is complex,” says Stefano Chiantini, who hopes, however, that the audience can However, find some comfort thanks to his new job. “This is what cinema should do, show daily difficulties, but also how love is to feed people.” This is how the director and screenwriter faced the direction of Like drops of waternot being able to exclude one’s personal experience also: «I think forgiveness is one of the columns of the film. It is a feeling I know. I was also a boy who ran away from Abruzzo, with a gruff father who led me to want to remove more determination. But precisely because I was a person gone away with anger, they are also the same that He then returned years later full of love And recognizing a real nest in the family ». A sense of welcome that Chiantini widens to his work, as he did with his interpreters, whose collaboration to create the world of characters together. “I like to enrich myself with their emotions “says the director. “If I had to recognize me a merit, it is to try to establish a certain degree of complicity and harmony on the set”.

The interpretation of a character with a disability of Edoardo Pesce

Edoardo Pesce agrees, who in the role of Alvaro focused on changing his body after the partial infirmity that affects the character: «It attracted me the passage of Alvaro as a fairly free and dynamic man, although not very present in the life of his daughter, to a person suffering from evil which forces him into a physical cage Which, in this fixity, leads him to spend more time with the girl, “explains the actor. «With Stefano we stayed at a center in the parts of the Gianicolese ring road in Rome and we talked to two people who had been rehabilitating for about a year after a stroke. We made ourselves explained what happens when the part of the brain that affects mobility is affected and affects the body and mind. For example, they told us that often you cannot pronounce the words you have in your head. Or there is no three -dimensionality that allows you to adequately use objects. Details that I tried to bring to the role, Like the walk of Alvarothat I showed them to them and asked if it was right ».

A performance on which fish opens a question: «Who knows how much we actors could still interpret people with a disability. It is a delicate area. By now it takes interpreters who really have it, it seems that the direction you are taking. However, I would say that, if it had always been like this, we would never have had films like Perfume of woman “.

Like drops of water and the importance of the family

Alongside Edoardo Pesce, to play a mother with a secret that has been carrying for years, there is a Barbara Chichiarelli who has embraced the shortcomings of his Margherita. “We are all imperfect “says in reference to the behavior of the mother of Like drops of water. «It is justified because, like the other characters, he finds himself in front of a misfortune. An event that anyone of us has faced, in its own way, in one’s life and that it leaves it unst. I also find that it is a fundamental character in history, because it is the one who, like a testimony from the pastallows you to better understand the present of his family ».

At the center of the relationship between Alvaro and Margherita there is the real protagonist of the work, the Sara Silvestro who was able to unite her two greatest passion in one film: “I am an ex agonist who one day, at fifteen years old, He discovered love for acting “explains the actress. «I was swimming every day, then I came to the curiosity to try something different and break the routine. At eighteen I abandoned competitiveness and felt lucky when I was able to put these two worlds together in my first film ». Luck and recognition that he also feels towards his parents: «They have always supported me in my choices. Many families, when it comes to competitiveness, put a lot of pressure on the shoulders of the children. My never. When I chose to leave swimming, they supported me, as well as when I told them I wanted to study acting. Nobody in my family has ever had any link with art, but they supported me and now they are my greatest fans ». Like drops of waterpassed in 2024 in the Grand Public section of the Rome Film Festival, arrives in theaters from June 5th distributed by BIM DISTRIBUTION.