The brilliant friend 3, Francesco Serpico: “Not only Nino Sarratore”

Every time that The Brilliant Friend returns to air on Rai1, there is always a name that begins to forcefully insinuate itself on social networks with a note of contempt and annoyance, as if it corresponded to a real person. That name is Nino Sarratore, which in fiction is played by Francesco Serpico, 23-year-old Neapolitan actor who could not be more different from the role he plays and who, every time he receives a message on Instagram directly with the words “Nino m * rda”, he can’t help but smile. “I like people who linger and write non-superficial things. Many fans are attentive to the story and, when the criticisms are constructive, I am ready to welcome what arrives with great pleasure “explains Francesco on the phone from his home in Naples, escorted by the cat Nala who, he specifies, is actually his brother, his sister and his mother because “they wanted and chose her, while I take the cuddles and scratches “.

Francesco Serpico is what the novelists of the twentieth century would have called one free spirit: he says he moves a lot, that he travels so much that, by now, his Neapolitan house is more “a support” than a permanent residence, and that he seeks happiness through the little things, moving in a microcosm very far from any narcissistic and annihilating megalomania typical of Nino.

What scares you about standing still?
“Boredom. Life is the art of encounter, and encounters are not held in one’s own bedroom ».

Certainly Nino Sarratore never gets bored. How do you live all the hustle and bustle that comes every time The Brilliant Friend goes on the air?
«With irony and fun: after all, it’s a game, it’s not my real life. Most fans are always very careful to distinguish the role from the actor, and that’s lucky. In this last season I have been on the other side of the fence: seeing the dramas of life that Nino causes in other people has made me understand that, perhaps perhaps, he is not exactly a good boy ».

I guess it is essential, in this case, to suspend any judgment on him.
“It would be a betrayal of your work if you judged it. Once, Toni Servillo said that the character is more complex than he is, and that it takes respect to play him out of a kind of love for him. “

Nino, however, will have something good. In your opinion, what?
«He is an excellent lover: when he loves, he does it with all of himself. I also believe that he is an excellent interlocutor and that he is very passionate: in politics, in relations with women and in the family. We are used to instantly rejecting those who seduce us and those who captivate us because, if we feel that attraction, deep down there is something that interests us ».

It is a bit like he is the blessed among women.
«During the second season, they told me: today we shoot ‘Nino kisses all’. Elena, Lila, Nadia, who happened to be ».

Let’s go back to seduction: is it better to seduce or be seduced?
“In my life, I am clumsy in my approaches to relationships, so I prefer to be seduced. I think this is the part that Nino is missing, and it is a shame because entrusting himself to the other is a pleasure that he has never allowed himself. Maybe only with Lila ».

Giovanni Buselli told me that he receives several declarations of love on social media: does it happen to you?
“Often. More than compliments, however, I am struck by the reflections, which are always a source of enrichment ».