The Gattopardo: the cast presents the Netflix series taken from the famous novel

To present the expected series of The gotopardoNetflix has chosen to report the cast and the workers in the magical room of the Hotel Plaza in Rome, in via del Corso, where in the sixth and last episode of the costume show the scene of the famous dance takes place. A large, sumptuous room, which represents exactly what it symbolizes for Netflix Italia The new product on which his signature is affected, whose filming began in the summer of 2023 until the show to the list of global excellence to be kept an eye on during the last presentation of the offers of the year at the event Next on Netflix.

“It was our most ambitious challenge,” he confesses Tinny Andreattatavice -president for the Italian contents of the platform, who reiterated the importance of such a series in their streaming offer, in addition to the effort of having transposed the novel from which it is, written in 1958 by Giuseppe Tomasi of Lampedusa. «We tried to capture the topicality of the book, which was a real literary case when it was published. The iconic figure of the Prince of Salina is the testimony of an era of transition between the past and the present, for a family saga in which the two moments converge “.

Although Andreatta together with Indian Production producer and Co-Cece, Fabrizio Donvitothey care much to underline the quality and level of Italian professionals who took part in the project – apparently a real deadly race in which Italy has won the rights for transposition thanks to the proposal of its idea of ​​adaptation – the British creator spread the script to apply the script Richard Warlowalso a screenwriter together with Benji walters. The team made use of both English and Italian consultants to better re -propose the historical period that begins in 1860, with the fall of the kingdom of the Bourbons and the future unity of Italy. Also to direct it is a British, the Tom Shankland who worked for The Punisher And The Serpentwhose direction alternated together with Giuseppe Capotondi And Laura Luchetti.

The gotopardothe word the cast

In what production sees as its response to style operations Downton Abbey And The Crown, And Kim Rossi Stuart To play the role of the protagonist Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, for whose role the actor wanted to take on a more impressive physical form, which led him to take about thirteen kilos. “It was the first thing I did, compare myself with such a heavy image,” tells the interpreter. “There is even a passage in the book in which Don Fabrizio’s steps were said to have the furniture shake. I don’t perceive me like this. I am not a two -meter man who seems even bigger for his strength and pride. I feel fragile and insecure, that’s why accepting the role has been a triple mortal jump ».

It was the comparison with the director Shankland who unraveling some knots of the character, of which Kim Rossi Stuart admires anyway its being articulated: «Reading the novel I had the opportunity to access a inner part of it that allowed me to hear it closer. Obviously they are not an superfine intellectual like the prince, but finding the right physical shape and looking for a deeper voice that could characterize it better I was ready to interpret it ».

It is not the first time that the actor confronts a costume work. The two -episode miniseries was from 1997 Red and black Directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe and based on the novel of the same name of Stendhal in which he dressed the role of Julien Sorel. “When similar roles happen to you – continues – You are in front of such a quantity of material that it is necessary that someone will be able to stem you, especially if you are an interpreter like me who ends up breaking the boxes and believing you know everything. But it is beautiful when you are dragged in such a natural way within a character, beyond one’s reasoning or will ».

Comparison with a cinema classic

If the interpreter had to do with Burt Lancaster’s spectrum in the role of Don Fabrizio in the film version of 1963 of Luchino Viscontiit wasn’t so easy even for Deva Cassel And Saul Nannirespectively in the roles of Angelica and Tancredi, previously played by Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon. “I preferred not to concern the film not to let myself be influenced by what Claudia Cardinale had done,” Comment Cassel. «I had seen the version of Visconti years ago and I wanted to leave it far away to allow me to rediscover the story through the eyes of the director and the screenwriters. Obviously I felt a certain pressure because it is an important character, of which I tried to show both beauty, sensitivity, and above all the injustice to which it was often subjected. I hope this is seen, because I put all the possible commitment to it ».

Same dedication that Saul Nanni put, without ever forgetting the size of the game that has always been the lifeblood of his work: “Tancredi is a boy looking for his place in the world”, explains the actor. “While our version of The gotopardo It is a new love letter to Sicily. It is something that you breathe inside the series and it was a pleasure to review this magnificent land under the eye of an era that no longer exists. Among other things, it was the first time that I approached a costume work and this made everything even more unique and fun ».

An opportunity also for Benedetta Porcarolibut above all for her concept to which both the series and the actress give an unprecedented space, also placing her at times in contrast with the figure of the father Fabrizio. “There is really a development in this young man”, The actress says. «She is an impatient girl who has undergone a betrayal, but will be able to put herself at the right distance from what happens to her, thus becoming stronger. He must find the way of dissolving the constraint towards unconditional love for the father who ends up crushing it, trying to imagine a future that, at the time, was impossible to choose on their own. And it is not a feminist, but private and human question. Concetta must find the way of metaphorically killing this father to finally be able to be seen, even if this will bring it to a lonely and painful path ».

There is therefore to say: ‘If we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change‘. But does the famous phrase of the book by Giuseppe Tomasi of Lampedusa still has value today? “I don’t understand why it became such an iconic phrase,” Kim Rossi Stuart confesses. «I know the meaning it has, but I believe that in the book they are more important precisely the non -said. The same phrase is denied with the finale of the novel and the last words of the prince for me contain the heart of history. This does not mean that it has become so popular because it is linked to something to which people are usually interested, but that the prince has now overcome ». The gotopardo arrives with his six episodes from March 5th on Netflix.