Margherita Buy, 60 years of antidiva

He looks shy, Margherita Buy, and large, clear eyes, shadowy, like those of a shy girl. Instead turns 60 on January 15th. And she is not silent and good at all, just to quote the Måneskin, on the contrary: “My rebellion is to do the opposite of what people expect of me. You’re an actress and then you have to go to parties: I’ve always stayed away from them. You have to have the so-called “stylist of reference”: and I go around dressed as it happens, who cares about the look. You have to cultivate visibility: but I continue to refuse to host them ».

Considered among the best Italian actresses, has won 7 David di Donatello, 7 Silver Ribbons, 5 Gold Globes and 13 Gold Ciak. Other numbers: she was the protagonist in over 60 films, while there were 13 fictions in which she starred. And just to keep track of the last few months, he will mention the films he took part in: The great silence at Alessandro Gassmann, Three floors by Nanni Moretti, Seven women and a mystery by Alessandro Genovesi, Ripley, TV series inspired by the novels of Patricia Highsmith, External night, another TV series, on the Moro kidnapping and directed by Marco Bellocchio. You won’t get certain rhythms and so many results if you don’t have great strength that pushes you.

Yet in the cinema they often gave her parts as a fragile one, almost a loser. She once said wryly, “I go very strong as a cuckold wife. It’s my specialty. ” So it was, just to give a few examples, a girl full of anxieties (Damn the day I met you), a nun who experiences maternal instinct (Out of this world), the woman betrayed by her husband for a gay boy (The ignorant fairies), a widow (The best day of my life). Al Corriere della Sera years ago he confessed his shyness: «It is the result of complexes. And it is true that I never feel up to the proposed situations. It is part of the psychosomatic baggage that I exploit on the screen ». But it’s not just this: ‘Please let’s stop with this neurotic thing. Once the lack of self-confidence blocked me, now I’m overcoming my insecurities ».

Margherita Buy, the first of three daughters, father a medical director and housewife mother, was born and raised in Rome, in the Coppedè neighborhood. You study scientific, without loving mathematics and with a great desire to escape from that school: «But Dad thought that science should have infected me. He often used contemptuous tones with respect to whatever choice my sisters and I made. ‘ So he enacted the first, greatest, rebellion by entering the “Silvio D’Amico” Academy of Dramatic Art. The fault of Andrea Camilleri: his wife was teaching her Latin. “Entering his apartment choked with books on the shelves and stacked on the parquet has electrocuted me.”