This article is published in number 14 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until April 6, 2021
Irene Ferri is a woman tormented by her own happiness. That inside it is so fluent, so endowed with its own volume and language, that it confuses and dominates it, makes simple things complicated, clear thoughts convoluted. He loves to say bad words, he says, but he allows them only until 2 pm, one of the many rules that he has given himself and to which he breaks as soon as we move to the terrace of his Roman house.
Other self-imposed regulations: never say “I love”, never say “a lot of stuff”. He has an intact family, with two children and a love that has endured for 24 years.
And a career that may not have led her to the David di Donatello but has grown steadily and homogeneously, since her debut in 1993 with the program All Disney almost forty between series and films, directed by Corrado Guzzanti and Roberto Faenza, Roberta Torre and Cinzia TH Torrini, in the middle four minutes of frame on his eyes for the video of We are alone by Vasco, where he releases a sensuality that in his career – he will explain why – he has used little. It is on tv in the sixth season of God help us, on 29 March Irene Ferri turned 49 years old.
Why does she have this fixation on the arrival of Friday, even if she were a smart working employee?
«Because inside of me lives a puppet with a card to be stamped, a symbol of the life my father would have wanted for me. And when I’m not on set I find myself working even harder. In addition, I went on a diet, and Friday approaches Sunday, which is the only day the nutritionist authorizes me to eat whatever I want ».
Why lose weight?
“Believe me when I tell you I’ve been on a diet all my life.”
Is this torture related to insecurity?
«Let’s face it: we are in Italy. Plus I’m entering that age range where you have to say thank you if they give you a part. What is required of me is to have a certain look, period. And just turn on the TV to notice: the male conductors are ugly, if not monsters, bald and with improbable noses. The conductors? Professionals like Ilary Blasi and Alessia Marcuzzi. But necessarily great cares ».
Did you see Arisa’s post on Instagram? She showed her breasts and said she finally felt accepted and beautiful.
“I understand her. You find yourself with a crazy talent but then you live in the midst of a thousand pressures, with the record company forcing you to look like certain models. I myself was pushed to open an Instagram profile because otherwise, they told me, the designers would no longer have granted me the clothes to attend the events. Runway dresses that don’t even fit you, because now the sizes are tiny. By now it even happens that at a casting they choose you according to how many followers you have ».
If it can get so humiliating, why continue being an actress?
«Because if I don’t act I miss the air. Three months ago I decided to quit, after receiving a ‘no’ for a job I really wanted. It was a desperate moment. ‘
Who raised it up?
“Director. He explained to me that the choice depended on many factors and there was nothing personal. He was good. Or paraculo. But it helped me. ‘
And your husband, who is an entrepreneur, what do you say?
“He hates my job. He says it’s a job of m … full of people of m … I understand, every time we’re ready to go I get a call. And holidays without me, only with the children, she had to do quite a bit. “
Did you try to make her change jobs?
“Many times. Now he is in the radio career phase, he says I would be perfect ».
For her birthday, would she have the courage to make a wish that would make her happy and those around her unhappy?
“I do not believe. Oh my God, but can you be so castrated? ».
When did you give up selfishness?
“Right away, when I decided I wasn’t going to be like my mother. A woman I admired but suffered a lot. Beautiful, great seductress, seamstress and talented stylist. While I have always tried to be her opposite, to laugh at her by shooting me in the foot: you know what career I would have done otherwise! At a certain point he even decided that he would no longer cook and I, who dreamed of a mother hen, felt betrayed and cut the umbilical cord ».
To be forty-nine: what a wonder, what a horror, what a fear.
«The first thing I think is: thank goodness they are 49 and not 50, because celebrating them in this situation would have been horrible. And then I think I wish I had 68 already, so they give me the parts like a grandmother, with a little Alzheimer’s, and I don’t think about it anymore ».
In the fourth grade they rejected her saying: “You’re a comedian.”
“It is a trauma that has marked me. I drew very well, I made jewels and in an instant my rebellious soul was extinguished. If you give me a piece of paper today, I draw like a 13-year-old girl. If I think about it, I stopped there ».
Photo: MADDALENA PETROSINO
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