The Roman actor in the second season of «Diavoli», from 22 April on Sky Atlantic. “Proud of my popular origins”
For Alessandro Borghi, one of the strengths of the series on the world of finance which sees him as protagonist together with Patrick Dempsey, “Devils” (the second season will be available from April 22 on Sky Atlantic and streaming on NOW), is that it is not about good and evil, but about choices. “I am of popular origins (he grew up at EUR, in Rome, ndr) and I’m proud of it— he explains -. But I grew up in a place where the human being I wanted to become was very far from that context. The choice I had to make when I was very young was whether to be part of that stuff there or to look at it from afar ». In other words: “When you are 15 and all your friends either take drugs or do robberies and you decide not to, that’s a choice.”
Today, by virtue of that choice, he finds himself acting side by side with Dempsey.
«I love Patrick very much, he welcomed me in a way that was not taken for granted. We met at the first reading and it seemed we had known each other for some time. This second season, then, is even more beautiful than the first ».
After Brexit, Covid arrives in the background. A third season has been announced in which there will be war.
“Unfortunately, there is something new every year. But as for Covid, the war in Ukraine will also be told to understand certain mechanisms that citizens are unaware of. With “Devils” let’s go and investigate behind the facade ».
Isn’t there a risk of being infected by so much cynicism?
«I have a gift: I can very much separate my work from my life. After the first season I could have become CEO of some company and change career for everything that was explained to me, but I prefer to think that each of us should simply try to know as much as possible, to realize the consequences of our daily actions “.
These days there is often a tendency towards conspiracy.
“Yes, but even when it seems easy, catch like. I don’t know why so many people are convinced that everyone should know at any cost what they think about a topic. It’s all a matter of ego: when you get into the loop of thinking that everyone is waiting for your opinion, it’s a problem. “
According to the use of your social networks, you do not take the risk.
«I try to do my best, but often when I read unsolicited opinions I have to answer: ‘To write certain things, what source do you have? What is the foundation of the concept you are expressing? ”. I hold back, but not always ».
One of his most famous roles is that of Stefano Cucchi. What do you think of the sentence that brought two carabinieri to prison for 12 years?
“It is a response to the struggle that has been going on for many years with Ilaria (Cucchi’s sister, ndr) and with a number of people who don’t believe Stefano was a junkie who deserved to die. I have two thoughts about it: the first is that 12 years is a short time, the second is that there are many people who went unpunished and that instead they should pay the consequences for what they did. A lot of people didn’t take care of Stefano as they should, not just two ».
For Sky he also shot the new film by Francesco Carrozzini, «The Hanging Sun».
«A very beautiful project, which was born and developed under the sign of our friendship. It is a wonderful journey that took us to Norway, to an alien place. Seven weeks that acted on me in a concrete way: once I returned to Rome I had panic attacks and I was looking for the fjords. It was a great opportunity to be part of an international context ».
The platforms open the doors to internationality.
“It is their merit but I hope they will return to what they were at the beginning: it seems to me that some are getting closer and closer to a generalist TV. My hope is that they will return to focus on quality and not quantity ».
April 19, 2022 (change April 19, 2022 | 17:17)
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