This article is published in issue 52 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until December 21, 2021
One of the most recent and goliardic media jokes was the one that concerned the sentence of Pietro Castellitto, thirty-year-old actor, director and author of a recent Bretistonellisian novel entitled The Hyperboreans, who, in an interview with Teresa Ciabatti, he said that «whoever grew up in Northern Rome made Vietnam. I don’t think there is a more ferocious place ».
The juxtaposition between the affluent and spoiled image of those who grow up in Northern Rome and the devastation of the infamous war in Vietnam has generated hilarity and hilarious meme contests. One of the best was Osho’s: “I love the smell of botox in the morning.”
The fact that Pietro Castellitto has talent and is the son of a famous director and a famous writer has naturally added fuel to the fire. I thought that I could do it too, a statement like that, even if my mother was a teacher and my father the representative and we lived in the suburbs, so it would not have the same effect. But perhaps it would have been generated by the same reflections. Every adolescence, in whatever environment it takes place, is a war. And for those with an artistic temperament, therefore an extreme sensitivity, it can really be a ferocious war.
I just finished reading a fascinating book by Patti Smith called Just Kids, released about ten years ago. It’s about when she and Robert Mapplethorpe, just in their twenties, met in New York, when they both slept on the street. They were just two penniless boys who loved each other, helped each other, explored themselves and the world. And they felt a creative urge to which they could not give a name. They would have become a great photographer and a rock star. I thought that when they were kids they had nothing, like me, while Pietro Castellitto had everything. But that for almost everyone, even for those who are not creative, even for those who do not have particular talents, growing and becoming themselves, wherever it happens, is an extreme adventure.
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