2023-04-18 00:47:00
The Italian actor, who was playing a performance at the Odeon theater on Monday, collapsed after a vagal illness. “He’s fine,” assured the theater.
By QM with AFP
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De deep concerns in full theatrical performance. Figure of Italian cinema, the actor Toni Servillo was the victim Monday evening April 17 of a malaise on the stage of the Odéon theater in Paris, during a unique representation of Voices of Dante (“The voices of Dante”) which had to be interrupted, noted a journalist from Agence France Presse.
Alone on stage, Toni Servillo, 64, interpreted in Italian texts by the Neapolitan writer Giuseppe Montesano during this sold-out show. The performance was definitively interrupted after about 45 minutes, following a fall of the actor, victim of a “vagal discomfort”, said the theater to Agence France Presse. “He’s fine,” he added.
Originally from Naples, Toni Servillo is the favorite actor of director Paolo Sorrentino, who gave him international stature by entrusting him with the role of Jep Gambardella in The great beauty. This film was notably awarded the Oscar for best foreign film in 2014.
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A multi-faceted player
Impressive by his art of metamorphosis, he had embodied always under the direction of Sorrentino the politicians Giulio Andreotti in He Divo (2008) and Silvio Berlusconi in the biopic Silvio and the Others (2018).
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More recently, he played Pope Paul VI in 2022 in the series Night exterior by Marco Bellochio on the kidnapping of statesman Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades.
Coming from a family passionate about theatre, Toni Servillo has also directed plays by Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni and Eduardo De Filippo, as well as several operas.
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