Sea Out, the fiction about juvenile prison that saw him in the role of Edoardo and which will return in the autumn on Raidue with a second season, has changed his life, but Matteo Paolillo decides to ride the wave with caution, because success is not always something you want at any cost. «The way in which people relate to me has changed and this, especially at the beginning, sent me into crisis. I like to know others without prejudice, but I realized that many, towards me, had it »explains Matteo on the phone from Naples, where he is completing the filming of the new episodes.
Born and raised in Salerno, student of the Experimental Center, Paolillo, that of Sea Out he also wrote and performed the song O’ Mar For, chooses his words carefully, retracing the steps of a path that he began to trace when he was 13 and that led him to achieve various satisfactions as well as grow as a person.
What troubles you about success?
“The fact that, when you see a person on TV, you seem to know them, but in reality you don’t. Beyond the eyes on us and the fact that we fight every day against a prejudice linked to aesthetics, to the imperfections and perfections of the face, the beautiful thing was to feel the love of the people, the smiles of the children of Naples ».
What is your relationship with compliments?
“I’ve been doing this job for ten years and, in general, they embarrass me. But when people tell me more, I get really excited. A boy from the Salerno prison told me that the song by Sea Out it helped him in a very difficult period, that “don’t worry there’s the sea out there” saved him in some ways. I don’t do my job for followers or for money, but for this ».
When does your connection with music start instead?
“Gives 8 Mile, which I first saw when I was 14. From there I started with freestyle and I realized that I had a great ease in fitting rhymes: it is a matter of training, but also of talent, of that fraction of a second that makes you pigeonhole the words in your brain. With Lorenzo Gennaro, aka Lollo Flow, whom I met at the Experimental Center, we are still collaborating and are preparing other music. I really want to sing live again ».
Meanwhile, in the last year, he has returned to acting. Passion when shooting?
“At 13, when a friend of my father’s pulled me into a neighborhood show in Salerno. In high school I understood that acting would be my life because art can change things more than armed revolutions, but many told me that I would not live there, especially the professors who tried to make me take another path: me, however , I’m happy to have stayed on my ideas despite the obstacles ».
Were there many obstacles?
“I had to look for self-confidence. I’ve always been a rebel at school, which doesn’t mean undisciplined: it means questioning the truth. You don’t need to have certainties, in my opinion: having certainties presupposes ignorance, because everything changes and evolves ».
When, at the age of 18, he moved to Rome, he had no certainties.
“I moved with nothing and nobody. At first I felt confused, a fish out of water: the only people I knew were those who attended my academy. When I entered the Experimental Center, I bonded with many young people outside of that reality: in Rome I met, for example, a friend who took me 3 weeks to Colombia, changing my life ».
How did it change your life?
“I felt I had landed on a planet colonized by humans. There they have a truly incredible value of sharing and relationship with nature ».
As a child, however, what was he like?
“Very curious. I looked at the cartoon of a firefighter and I wanted to do that, I loved animals and I made up my mind to be a veterinarian: playing different roles allowed me to do everything. My hope is to continue doing it, without being pigeonholed into a character: I would like to experience completely different things for myself ».
What is your greatest talent?
«Do not be afraid to love in all the forms in which love can be understood and to be able to listen to the world, people, animals, emotions and nature. People who don’t listen deeply annoy me. ‘
(Photo: Francesco Guarnieri
Grooming: Daniele Esposito
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