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Luisa Ranieri: «Lolita and Montalbano? They wouldn’t get along “

Lolita Lobosco was born from the pen of Gabriella Genisi watching on tv Inspector Montalbano, “Not to emulate”, says the writer, “but to fill a void: there was a lack of women protagonists in detective stories”. Here then is born Lolita, assistant superintendent of Bari, his hometown. From 21 February, after eight yellow-pink novels, it arrives on Raiuno The investigations of Lolita Lobosco by Luca Miniero. Same fate befell the colleague created by Andrea Camilleri, and it so happened that she was playing the policewoman Luisa Ranieri, wife of Luca Zingaretti (in this case producer of the fiction), alias Montalbano.

«Lolita is a modern woman from the South, who casually wears a bra and a heel 12», says the Neapolitan actress, «she doesn’t need to dress up as a man to be authoritative and deserving. This fiction is a step forward in the way of telling the female world, it mixes irony, feelings and family ties. The detective story and the investigations are just a pretext to talk about the story of a woman in which many will recognize themselves ».

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Lolita returns to his Bari after years of work spent in Legnano, it is beautiful and does not go unnoticed, especially when walking through the corridors of the police headquarters of the Apulian city Here he will rediscover the flavors and aromas of the past, the bond with his land and the relationship with the family (with her mother Nunzia – Lunetta Savino – widowed, her sister Carmela and grandchildren) and with her friend PM Marietta (Bianca Nappi). He will also meet his first first flame and perhaps a new love that is about to appear. This is the thirty-year-old journalist Danilo, interpreted by Filippo Scicchitano, ten years her junior. Will it be the right time for Lolita who has always been betrayed by important loves?

Also to Luisa Ranieri happened to receive advances from younger men, “but I like those my age or older, she stresses, “so I often didn’t notice, the others did,” she laughs. Instead with the heels is perfectly fine, even if “I prefer to use sneakers”, he confesses, “heels don’t scare me, I collect them and by shooting this fiction I discovered I can do things that are impossible by wearing them ».

The husband Luca Zingaretti he knows about television commissioners, and that commissioners: March 8 Montalbano will return to TV in the last episode of the series. Did he give you any advice? We ask the wife: «No, why Lolita and Salvo are very different charactersHe replies. And if one day the two were to meet, would they get along? “I don’t think so,” Luisa is convinced, responding with the Apulian light in the manner of Lolita.

In a novel by Gabriella Genisi Montalbano and Lolita hear each other on the phone, who knows that one day it won’t even happen on TV. Meanwhile, enjoy four evenings with The investigations of Lolita Lobosco which will probably have a long life on TV. Will it take up Montalbano’s legacy? «Impossible», the actress affirms with certainty, «Montalbano is unrepeatable, unless a tailor-made astral painting comes to my aid», she smiles.

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