Pierfrancesco Favino and Miriam Leone: “I run to you, the strength to look disability in the eye”

Piefrancesco Favino And Miriam Leone they share the set for the first time on the occasion of the romantic comedy I run to you by Riccardo Milani (in cinemas from March 17). He plays the cynical Gianni, a womanizer who often pretends to be someone else in order to conquer that or that woman. She is Clear, a disabled person who by chance knows Gianni. After that meeting, from the height of her ego, the rich manager and Latin lover bets with his friends that he will be able to take Chiara to bed too, pretending to be in a wheelchair.

A feeling arises between the two. And above all, Gianni begins to see Chiara with different eyes than he has always seen, with contempt, the disabled. Thanks to her he will be able to know himself and look people in the face without fear. “I run to you it goes beyond disability“, Favino is convinced,”because it speaks of many disabilities: the physical one and that emotionalbut above all of tolerancespeaks of the ability to know how to look beyond appearances, which in some cases are very evident like this one we are describing “.

The Buscetta actor enjoyed giving body to Gianni, “an extremely cynical character “describes the actor, “I didn’t feel guilty playing him because we are all a little cynical, but we like to tell different stories. Gianni is admittedly unpleasant and takes on his shoulders all the negative qualities we have when we are confronted with the world of disability ». «Often», he adds, «what we do we think it is grace or delicacy in reality it is cynicism: we do not want to get in touch with what scares us, disabled people are simply individuals. It is up to us to listen to them and look them in the eye ».

Miriam Leone she had to immerse herself completely in the world of disability to try to be credible. Chiara’s, she says, was a complex and risky role. “It was difficult because I had to overcome my non-skillslike playing wheelchair tennis », the actress of Eva Kant tells us,« sport is essential to develop skills and to regain the love of life ».

The association Peba Onlus “He helped me tell this one reality without rhetoric and without pietism», Miriam Leone continues,«the clean and intelligent laugh it also allows you to desecrate and welcome what frightens you and which is different from you. Chiara wouldn’t find love if she didn’t accept what she doesn’t like about Gianni. Thinking that everything has to be as perfect as we would like makes us unable to accept reality. Love is also being able to look at what we don’t like ».