Vanity Fair Stories 2022, Pilar Fogliati: «When my grandmother asked me “Why don’t you get married?”»

After the success of the previous four editions, the Vanity Fair Storiesthe largest fully live event of Vanity Fair which for the first time is staged at Giorgio Gaber Opera House in Milan (via Larga 14).

This year’s theme The change is you, stories that change the world. Many characters alternate on the stage who are an active part of the change: actors and directors, comedians and singers, writers, dancers, key figures of culture.

Among these too Pilar Fogliatiactress, godmother of the Turin Film Festival and now star of I hate Christmasthe series on Netflix that will accompany our holidays.

«The story is that of a thirty-year-old girl who broke up, she is a little soured, the family insists that she get married. She who can’t take it anymore in front of their insistence, and she invents about her: she says that for Christmas she will bring her fiancé », says Pilar. At that point the girl is looking for a candidate to bring: «she goes out, she accepts appointments, her friends push her to download Tinder. In short, things that really happen in real life. It is a story that tells the weight of expectations».

But it is also a story that tells the stigma of the “lonely woman” present in our society: «My grandmother told me several times “O Pilar, I don’t like this fact that you’re an actress so much, why don’t you get married?”. He doesn’t say it because he doesn’t love me, absolutely, but because he speaks for his generation. But we are different now, we are a generation that fortunately knows new freedoms, we are able to talk about our problems».

Then the actress told of her beginnings: «I didn’t do very well in school – he says – and my mother was great: she chose to enroll me to theater school on Saturday evening, which would have prevented me from participating in the stroll, a punishment from a certain point of view but it was a gift. It’s what I’ve always dreamed of doing. Today I know I’m on the right track because I feel comfortable with what I do».

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