Sergio Castellitto: “I admire my son Pietro for being able to get rid of us parents, he has a chaotic talent”

Sergio Castellitto arrives at Filming Italy Sardinia Festival from London, where the second season of The Gentlemen by Guy Ritchie. In the series he plays a “non -classic, cultured and with a certain ethical mafia. I’m having a lot of fun, “admits the actor back from the success of Conclave. His is a crowded period: he is in fact dividing himself among the sets on Lake Maggiore, London and Rome, where he is also turning History of my family 2 For Netflix.

“I liked the first season of the series because it has a fun and melancholy flavor, in the manner of Ettore Scola,” he explains. “I still manage to work after the hellish year at the experimental center,” he says with a sarcastic tip, “it was a painful period: I was naive because I thought that the ideas were stronger than the mud machine that is set in motion against me”.

Put aside the recent past, Sergio Castellitto comments on the news on the black news case these days starring Francis Kaufmann, who has pretended to be a film producer and taken 800 thousand euros of public funding. “If it weren’t a tragedy it would be a comedy. The disturbing thing is that if it happened once, it is likely that it happened ten times. It is the diabolical logic of bureaucracy. Faced with such an event, it is legitimate to think that it is an automatism that has been going on for years. The cinema is self -destructing ».

The actor and director, who is thinking of returning behind the camera with a new film written by his wife Margaret Mazzantini, comments on the controversy raised by Matilda De Angelis On the silver tape won ex aequo with Elodie For Out by Mario Martone. “Matilda I directed it in mine Emotional material “he says, “she is a formidable and straightforward girl. In principle, it cannot be done wrong, in the sense that the former aequo makes sense in the festivals. In institutional prizes, such as the David and the tapes, I find it right, as Matilda said, defend the uniqueness of the trade. I would suggest setting a casting prize ».

Finally, to journalists guests of the Filming Italy Sardinia Festival, Castellitto says his on his son Pietro, considered one of the most popular young directors of our cinema. «I always believed in him even when he was a teenager who seemed to throw away his life, as many young people do. I always thought it had a chaotic talent. And luckily it remained chaotic because the talented talent is suspicious. Now, however, it manages to channel it ». “I admire him,” continues the father, “because he managed to get rid of the burden of the personalities of us parents. He made a path. And I admire him for his freedom to express himself: I would not be able to make the films he makes ».