Matilde Gioli: “Blessed be the day I met you”

M.atilde Gioli measure the popularity with a parameter that is as empirical as it is effective: the number of times she is stopped on the street. Before Doc – in your hands, it happened once a day; then, since in March 2020 his face became that of Giulia Giordano, a hospital doctor with great professionalism and several sentimental problems in the Rai series-phenomenon (an average of about 30 percent share), people recognize her and ask her for selfies or autographs “at least four times a day”. A huge leap in perceived popularity. “Everything has changed. Before, I made small films, many first films. With Doc I really entered the homes of Italians: it’s not a way of saying, I’m right on their TV, ”says Matilde, a little incredulous. On April 7 she returns to the cinema in the new comedy by Fausto Brizzi, Bla Bla Babythe story of a man (Alessandro Preziosi) who one day begins to hear kindergarten-age children talking like adults and falls in love with a mother played by Matilde Gioli.

Perhaps her destiny as an actress was written in these endless blue eyes, in this face that pierces the screen, in the smile that suddenly explodes, in this brazen and perfect photogenicity. La di lei is the classic story of the audition done by chance while she went somewhere else (in her case: to take her brother to play basketball), with the famous director, Paolo Virzì, who notices her and makes her debut at the cinema in a successful film, Human capital. Matilde was 24 at the time and was majoring in Philosophy in Milan, she didn’t care much about acting, but how can you say no to a film with Virzì? Then the films, the TV series, many rotogravure loves. Today, the great television success and a new boyfriend, Alessandro Marcucci, a riding instructor profession, to whom Matilde wrote a post on social media with an unequivocal dedication: «I love you».

Can we say that it is experiencing its golden moment?
«We can say it but professional life has to do with it up to a certain point. I am not obsessed with work, I have always maintained a healthy detachment, I am one of those actresses who enjoys moments of pause, I never get anxious if I am still. The moment is golden because in a historical period dominated by war and pandemic, I am lucky enough to have my certainties, my personal happiness. This is enough for me: to feel at peace ».

How you do it?
«I struggled, I spent dark years because I lacked a center on a sentimental level. For a long time I compulsively searched for it and obviously never found it. Then I decided to slow down, to stop searching, to put myself in a reflective mode. I began to listen to myself. Nature and animals make me feel good, I followed this inclination and so I found my place in my heart. In my place of the heart I met people similar to me and among them Alessandro. To tell it like this, now it all seems obvious to me. It was enough to slow down and allow my brain and heart to tell me things ».

Matilde Gioli, 32, in a scene from Bla bla baby, at the cinema from 7 April.

How long did this period last?
“I’ve been single for two and a half years.”

Not very much. Oh yeah?
«For me it was enormous, I had always been in a couple before, loneliness scared me. But this time I was good, I didn’t immediately throw myself into another story, as I had always done. And I didn’t do the other thing that I always did, which is to live the life of another person so as not to think about my problems ».

How did you meet?
“Last year, while I was shooting Doc in Rome, one weekend I was too tired to go back to Milan from my horse Fuego, but I still wanted to ride. So on Google I searched for: horseback riding Rome. And the first result was: on horseback with Ale. I showed up there alone like an artichoke and I never left ».

Had he recognized her?
“No, he didn’t know in the least who I was. His collaborators told him later. But not even now look Doc“.

But how? It is unforgivable!
“Not a fan of medical drama. And then he has a hard time seeing me in series or movies because he makes him weird ».

Jealousy?
«Also, but not only that. Maybe he doesn’t like seeing me pretending. Even my brothers often tell me this ».

Source: Vanity Fair

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