Freddie Highmore for Leonardo: “A modern man, without labels”

“I also really appreciated the story between Leonardo and Caterina da Cremona, because very often on the screen, if we tend not to give the right interest to a story if it does not become sentimental between a man and a woman while in our show we show the depth of their bond “. Tell us so Freddie Highmore, which we learned about in The Good Doctor e Neverland and that in the series Leonardo interpret Stefano Giraldi, the investigator in charge of investigating Leonardo Da Vinci’s account.

The link to which it refers is that between Caterina da Cremona (played by Matilda De Angelis) and Leonardo (Aidan Turner). A relationship that never resulted in physical passion, but equally strong. In the 8-episode fiction that premieres on Rai at the center of the story is the life of Leonardo Da Vinci before he became the acclaimed and recognized genius, even centuries later, all over the world.

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Aidan Turner plays Leonardo showing all his fragility and intelligence. As a child denied by his father, he made his way into the world as an outsider, without labels. «Leonardo was a genius, a scientist, an artist, a modern man. We should take a cue from him also because now we tend to choose only one of the two aspects, when in reality these two souls, the scientific and the artistic, coexisted in the same body in him “Highmore told us during our video interview, continuing as follows: «We always think of genius, but it’s nice to see how Leonardo fought as an outsider for his passions, to do the job he wanted. I think it is a lesson from which we can all draw inspiration even centuries later ».

Leonardo, the new Rai1 event series produced by Lux Vide with Rai Fiction, Big Light Productions in association with France Télévisions, RTVE and Alfresco Pictures, co-produced and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television, with an exceptional cast led by Aidan Turner (Poldark, Lo Hobbit), Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing, The boys of the Zecchino d’Oro, Anything can happen) e Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor, Bates Motel), arrives in eight episodes, in four evenings, starting from March 23 on Rai Uno

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