This article is published in Vanity Fair issue 28-29 on newsstands until July 20, 2021
When we meet during this period, we talk about a vaccine to break the ice. So it happens to me with Elena Sofia Ricci, recently chosen by L’Oréal Paris as the brand’s Italian testimonial, and recently recovering from a back operation that forced her to bed for several months. But Elena Sofia does not need pleasantries, victimhood does not belong to her and there is no embarrassment between us: it is a river in flood – “I don’t understand the no-vax” -, a force of nature – “To carry out I then went to the hospital for two months “-, ironic -” I don’t know who I got the sense of humor from, in my family we didn’t know what it was “-, inclusive -” We will finally turn around when instead of genres we will talk about people, when there will no longer be a need for a law that should protect minorities “-, authentic -” I didn’t like them until I was 30, when I started psychotherapy “.
This year and a half of forced confinement has made her even more combative, as her mother Elena Ricci Poccetto, the first female set designer in Italian cinema, taught her. Fighting for rights – «Think about my sector: we are considered non-workers because we fill people’s free time. Of course, we don’t save lives. But maybe we heal souls. What would we have done in the lockdown without books, without music, without cinema? And today there are tens of thousands of gas barrel workers. This is why the last battle was to create with my husband and my sister the first event in the presence for show business workers, Cry for a new renaissance»- the sense of justice, respect and dedication to others -« Otherwise life has no meaning, as Rita Levi-Montalcini argued, one of the roles I loved most »- are her mantra.
This is enough to understand why she was chosen as the spokesperson for the values of L’Oréal Paris, which 50 years ago, in an extraordinarily visionary way, coined the slogan Because I’m worth it in the midst of the battle for women’s rights.
“Fighting for what is not right is my necessity. I am an actress who is no longer very young, who has remained herself, I think I carry my years well, I represent a woman who works hard for other women. L’Oréal’s message was powerful then and it is also today, but the path is long and tiring and the pandemic has done nothing but highlight enormous gaps ».
Is the woman still tied to stereotypes?
“Fortunately, we have other values, aesthetics can no longer be separated from ethics, from the person. Unfortunately we come from years of unbridled hedonism. And there are still women who cannot bear the passing of time and abuse cosmetic surgery, which I do not demonize if it is done well. Who says that in a while I will not fall into the temptation of a facelift! Never say never”.
How does his body live?
«I was a child-girl with important gray areas, with a deep sense of melancholy because I did not have a balanced family. I didn’t see myself as beautiful, I was full of complexes. In addition, I was “educated” to hate my father who I did not see. But I wasn’t convinced. It wasn’t until I was 30 that I realized that I couldn’t hate him because I didn’t know him. I went to psychotherapy, my balance has changed and with it the perception of my physicality. Indeed, my physique has really changed. Starting from the left eye, coincidentally the one linked to emotionality, which always slowly closed in the middle of the day. The justification was because he was lazy, like that of his maternal grandmother. And instead think a little, after a year of sessions, the problem had disappeared. I had found my father, my brothers, recovered those pieces of the puzzle that were healthy rubble. The eye has reopened and I have begun to become more beautiful ».
She misses a year at sixty.
“I wouldn’t change with the twenty, but I would have liked to stop at forty, I don’t deny it. But more than improving by upsetting the characteristics I try to heal my soul by creating new stimuli. Manuela Mandracchia, in the role of the crazy aunt Maura in Famosa, Alessandra Mortelliti’s first work, justifies the fact that she is surrounded by clocks that ring at different times with the phrase “I like to confuse the time”. Here, I would like to do it too. I could with the energy that I equate the head that rejuvenates to the body that instead involves. Unfortunately, however, as Sciascia said, “the body is the good dog that guides the blind”. We are blind and abuse our body even when it gives us obvious signals. If you don’t listen to him, he stops you. I tried it on my skin ».
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