The Maker of Tears: 5 curiosities about the film that you absolutely need to know

The editorial success of The maker of tears by Erin Doom it already hinted that its film adaptation could become a small cult exactly like the book. Since the film became available on Netflix on April 4th, it was immediately at the top of the most viewed titles and, after a week, it is second in the world ranking of non-English language films. There are those who are already thinking about the sequel, those who can't stop rewatching because they can no longer do without the tormented love story between Rigel and Nica, but in both cases the curiosity of anecdotes about this film is very high. Here are our favourites.

THE CHANGE IN SIMONE BALDASSERONI THANKS TO RIGEL

The name of Rigel's interpreter may tell you little, but the face is the familiar one of the rapper Biondo who has decided to make a change in his career through acting. Before being chosen for the role of Rigel, there was a lot of study (of acting, elocution and books) and intense physical training. Aside from the improvement in his acting skills, it was an important test for Baldasseroni: he shares a lot, emotionally speaking, with his character and, after the last take on set, he understood that he had also grown as a person. In an interview, he said that, for him, it was “like going to therapy.”

CATERINA FERIOLI'S MOTHER IS A BIG FAN OF THE BOOK

Imagine landing your first leading role in a film based on a best-selling novel and never hearing about it, even though your mother is a huge fan. This is exactly what happened to Caterina Ferioli (Nica) who, when she found out she had got the part, started looking for information on The maker of tears whose success he was unaware of. Talking to her mother, she discovered that she was an avid reader of Erin Doom's novel and, in fact, she advised her to read it because she would certainly like it.

ALESSANDRO BEDETTI'S BEGINNINGS ON THE SET WERE NOT ROSES AND FLOWERS

The villain of the film is certainly Lionel, played by Alessandro Bedetti. The tense scenes between him and the other two protagonists, Nica and Rigel, are one of the cornerstones of The maker of tears. The most intense ones were shot in the first days of set and this inevitably also had an impact on building a relationship with Feroni and Baldasseroni, once the filming days were over. It wasn't easy to find ourselves being friends even off set. As the work progressed, things went better especially with Caterina Ferioli: both from Bologna, they found a strong meeting point in their origins.

THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN CATERINA FERIOLI AND SIMONE BALDASSERONI? LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT”

Ok, don't think that the spark of love was sparked when the two met for the first time, but there was immediately that alchemy that we later found in the film. Ferioli and Baldasseroni met, for the first time, for an audition together: the former had already been chosen for the role of Rigel, the latter was competing with four other girls to be chosen as Nica. When they started reciting their first lines together they immediately found harmony, so much so that the actor told the director and producer that it was she who he liked the most.

NOTHING THE UNITED STATES, BUT LOTS OF ITALY FOR THE LOCATIONS

As all fans of the book know, The maker of tears takes place in the United States, in a small town in Minnesota. The film, however, is set entirely in Italy: most of the scenes were shot in Rome (for example, the orphanage is, in truth, the Complesso del Buon Pastore, in via di Bravetta), then others followed in Pescara and Ravenna. The American public, according to what we read online, greatly appreciated the choice of locations: evidently, the beauty of the Italian views far surpassed those of Minnesota.