Stefano Accorsi: “The conflict between fathers and sons is necessary”

Stefano Accorsi returns in a Rai fiction after twenty years, the last time we saw him there The reasons of the heart. To convince him is the fiction Your Honor by Alessandro Casale (on Rai 1 from February 28), based on the Israeli series Kvodoto which it also refers Your Honor with Bryan Cranston.

I rushed plays the same role as the actor of Breaking Bad: the judge of fame and all in one piece Vittorio Pagani (in the Italian version) who is faced with a moral dilemma when he discovers that his son Matteo (Matteo Oscar Giuggioli) has invested in a car an exponent of the Silva, a Latin American underworld clan operating in Milan.

The son did not help Diego who is now dying in hospital. Matteo he confesses everything to his father who knows those criminals well: years before he was the prosecutor who put the Latinos boss Lucas Silva in prison. Vittorio decides to defend his son at all costs and not to have him arrested because the clan would surely take revenge. What remains to be done? Try to cover up any leads that lead the police to investigate Matteobut as Accorsi says “a single lie from Vittorio will unleash an avalanche that risks canceling his entire career”.

What would he do Stefano Accorsi (father of four) as Vittorio? “To get an answer you have to find yourself in that absurd situation”, the actor tells us via Zoom, “I would instinctively say everything possible, as my character does: this man has no alternatives, his son could die and he instinctively protects him by lying ». The skein becomes more and more tangled with every minute of the series crime.