Stefania Sandrelli: “Gino Paoli was an adorable liar, who had a wife I knew him from my aunt, to whom I replied: but I don’t have to marry him”

«I love Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, crazy like a horse like me, and I cheer for his Eleonora Duse. But too many films are nostalgic, D’Annunzio, the national heroes … There are targeted choices that I don’t like ». Stefania Sandrelli at the Venice Film Festival to receive the Nuovo Imaie Prize, talks about himself and others in an interview with Corriere della Sera. “My life has flown. I would like to live more a hundred years to see what happens. I am very curious ».

From Venice he brought the Murrine, the mosaic glass vases, to children and grandchildren. «Now, however, I would like to think a little more to myself, physically I mean. Sagitta, who was the splendid partner of Gigi Proietti and who lives near my house, is giving me good addresses and advice ». Germi, Monicelli, Scola, Bertolucci, the directors with whom he worked. «It was a relay, nobody made me regret the other. Today the problem is that the foundations, the screenwriters, the Age and Scarpelli are missing. Today there are beautiful films and good directors and actors, but the cinema has lapsed, the films, when they come out in the room (which are less and less) after a few days disappear. Frankly, I am a little tired of this trend, works and then who knows what happens. Now there are platforms, for Sky I made an episode of Call my agent (where he interprets herself ed) ».

His relationship with the nude. «Tinto brass after The key He wanted to do an encore and proposed me Mirandabut when it’s too much it’s too much. Then I proposed the covers of Playboy And Playmen with meetings where they talked to me about pieces of buttocks and some pegsthey would not have shown more than me, I replied that I was not a roast chicken ».

Stefania Sandrelli feels like it resembles Mastroianni, “that a little was there and a little did. We didn’t take seriously. I liked his indolence when he fell asleep in the breaks. But I was more exuberant than he, I skidded, danced, brigaded. Marcello was of a beauty that frightened but I was a girl and he was a little elderly for me ». Of Gérard Depardieu on trial for violence says: «I am transcended, Gérard is a beast with a gentle side. He came to my house and cooked red meat. In the past we had a flirtation and they left us at the right time ».

He said no to Coppola for The godfather. «He is cinema, but the part was identical to seduced and abandoned. I said to him: “They are the national Virgin I cannot become the international Virgin”. Then there is the no suffered, Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini I already gave the jokes to De Sica when Dominique Sanda took overbecause of a producer who a couple of times put the sticks in the wheels and I don’t know what I did. Dominique came to me: I have to tell you one thing, they took me. But I was happy for Dominique, I sincerely say it ».

Confesses that the name Amandathat of the daughter, she didn’t like it. «I would have preferred Angelica, Amanda was called my classmate who took me to the folders and beat me. But the gerund gives hope: it had to be loved ». Impossible not to talk about his daughter’s father, Gino Paoli. “It was an adorable liar, who had a wife, and we were together, I knew him from my aunt, to whom I replied: but I don’t have to marry it.”