Francesco Del Gaudio: “Peppino di Capri told me: I’m sorry for you who you have to play me”

To all those who asked him what he would have grown up Francesco Del Gaudio He replied that he would become a musician like his father. “I started with the piano and then moved on to the violin and the trumpet, a tool for which I specialized at the Conservatory of Naples”, replies by Gaudio, who at 15 years old understands, however, to want to (also) the actor. Certainly he would never have said that, eleven years later, he would unite the two passions by playing the role of Peppino di Capri in the movie Champagnedirected by Cinzia Th Torrini and on the air on the early evening on Rai1 on March 24th.

How was it to combine music and acting together?
«Satisfactory, especially because it is since I am small that they ask me if I want to play or act. I always thought, however, that I didn’t have to choose and carry on the two things with the same passion. Champagne It was the answer to that doubt ».

Did you know Peppino Di Capri before the film?
«For obvious personal reasons he was far enough from me, even if it happened to me as a trumpeter to play It is not a sinone of his most beautiful songs that my father made me know: I considered him a sign ».

Francesco Del Gaudio and Arianna Di Claudio in Champagne.

Where did he start from?
«I started to collect as much material as possible of Peppino up to 34 years old, but I didn’t find it a lot. I was interested, however, to try to tell his emotions and understand why the shyness that inhibited him in life disappeared as soon as he climbed on a stage. I was lucky enough to meet Peppino twice before turning and I understood that he is a man who loves to be on his and to whom I asked absurd things as what perfume he used and if he had suffered from nervous gastritis or back pain. Certain physical symptoms can tell us a lot about a person’s psychological. “

What did he find out?
«That, in addition to making grimaces every now and then on the stage I tried to resume, Peppino would probably not have had that career if he had not been pushed by the others, including Roberta, his first wife. Perhaps he was linked to the fact that he thought he didn’t like everyone. When he was told that I would interpret him in the film he turned to me and he said to me: “I’m sorry for you”, as if to devalue “.

Do you also devalue?
«I don’t think I am much better put in the level of self -esteem even if, growing, I learned to look at myself with more tenderness than before. It will also be because acting has allowed me to show my fragility without shamelessly with the excuse that someone else are. “

Francesco Del Gaudio in the Netflix deception series.
Francesco Del Gaudio in the Netflix series Deceit.

What is your fragility?
«From the first day of my life I think I wanted to be loved and seen by the others, as if the two things went hand in hand. I think this was to bring me to the world of art ».

What’s afraid of?
«Not to find a person to share the rest of life with. I know I am young, but I fight the fear of being alone every day, even if I learned to work on myself so that it can make me ready when love will knock on my door ».

Source: Vanity Fair

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