2023-10-24 16:42:37
by Valerio Cappelli
«Volare» is his surprising debut in a brilliant comedy as a director: «I tried to behave in the opposite way to how they behaved with me». «Sometimes I have a nice day. I didn’t have an international career because I was afraid of flying»»
There is a phenomenal line, in Volare by Margherita Buy, when Veronica, who is her real daughter, asks her to find a man. And she replies: Oh my poor thing, why? She plays with her neuroses, in the film she is a talented actress who is unable to get on the plane to Korea where a great director was waiting for her. And to accompany her daughter to university in the USA she follows a course to overcome fear.
Was that line improvised or was it in the script?
«It amused me that I realized that that woman is impossible. It can only be mean to try to start a relationship with a man. She made me laugh.”
But that woman, full of anxieties, is her!
«Oh, I’ve changed a little. A personality is full of things and facets. My life is a scale, it’s as if every morning I put all my fears and anxieties on the plate, and a similar weight to be able to face them. To achieve a sort of balance.”
«Sometimes I have a nice day, sometimes I carry the anxiety with me until the night>.
What else are you afraid of, apart from planes?
«I am also afraid of life itself. I think I’ve figured out I’m living at 30 percent of my means. I’m not someone who lives my life fully. I have always feared change. I take refuge in the things I know, in the people who love me. I demand little from my life.”
Ever left your comfort zone?
“When I did it I wasn’t well.”
«To his bestseller Fear of Flying? No. For me, behind the fear of flying there are many things, it’s letting go, relying on another person. Flying takes you to another place, it’s a move you make, it’s finding yourself in an unknown life.”
It is his debut as a director. He’s in good company
«Yes, I Paola Cortellesi, Claudia Gerini…I don’t know why all of them now. I like that there is competition between us. We exposed ourselves. I was used to my beautiful life as an actress.”
A brilliant film, possessed by grace
«I didn’t frequent comedy much, but I really like it. However, even here there are moments that are not so funny.”
Is cinema still sexist?
«Yes, men are made that way, it’s not that cinema lives in a different dimension. For example, that of workers is a job intended for men. I surrounded myself with women on set. Anna Bonaiuto, Giulia Michelini, Elena Sofia Ricci, Euridice Axen…”.
Have you thought of any masters you have worked with?
«I actually tried to behave in the opposite way to what the directors did to me: I am in power and it is done as I say. I’m neurotic but I tried not to be.”
Buy is reassuring news
«On sets I’m generally nervous, but here it didn’t happen, I calmed down, I wanted to put the actors at ease. I got the ones I wanted.”
Her daughter told us (but with affection) that she had not taken anything from her.
«The best gift was to preserve her so that she wouldn’t become like me. She is 22 years old, she is serious, she studies at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. I would like her to be an actress differently from me, that she would work outside.”
Here, in the film we talk about the great international career that was precluded.
«There was a time when I could have worked well abroad. But it’s not in my character, I’m sedentary. I have given up on many things. I had to make a film in Montenegro, I imagined a mountain against which I would have crashed like the Torino team in Superga.”
«I’m happy, it’s different to talk about your own things. It’s a great responsibility. When I act for others I am a pawn. I’ve always been afraid of saying something wrong. Here I am.”
Did he show it to his friend Nanni Moretti?
«He invited me to do a screening at the Nuovo Sacher. I objected, but what if you haven’t seen it? It doesn’t matter, she replied. In my opinion he had it secretly projected somewhere.” Valerio Cappelli
October 24, 2023 (modified October 24, 2023 | 4:42 pm)
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
#neurotic #making #fun #Fear #prevented #career #time.news