At first I was ashamed of the wheelchair. I fight, every evening a show at the theater. I owe everything to Gigi Proietti – Corriere TV

2023-12-09 17:44:23

The interview with the comedian who reached his moment of greatest success in the nineties thanks to musicals and variety shows on TV

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Rodolfo Laganà, 65 years old, 40 of which spent in cinema, theater and variety shows on TV. The beginnings in the school of Gigi Proietti for whom the actor has a real veneration: «I owe everything to him, if I was an actor and if I had so much satisfaction in life, it is only thanks to Gigi. For me he is not only a teacher, but a father.”
Laganà worked between the 1980s and 2000s with all the big names in musicals and cinema. Important roles in the shows of Garinei and Giovannini, successful films with Vanzina, Corbucci and Proietti. Then the variety show on TV with La ballast
«Formidable, unrepeatable years. People stopped you on the street, you had incredible, tangible success.”
Today Laganà is 65 years old and since 2014 he has faced multiple sclerosis which forces him into a wheelchair. But he doesn’t give up, he doesn’t want to give up. And every evening he faces the stage in the theaters of Rome with his latest show, Proprietary Nude. He still has his audience that pampers him and follows him. «The show is created by me and there is only me on stage. I’m sitting because I can’t stand for more than a certain amount of time. But the show makes me happy, people have fun and applaud. As long as I can be an actor, the illness doesn’t weigh on me too much.”

December 9, 2023 – Updated December 10, 2023, 1:12 pm

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