The Apulian director and actor will participate in one of the five evenings of the festival, scheduled from 1 to 5 February
I don’t have the courage to go, a very difficult stage, he said in 2019, denying the rumors of the eve and dismissing them as lies. This time, the courage found it: Checco Zalone will be a guest of the Sanremo Festival, giving Amadeus, as confirmed during Tg1 at 20, the first coup of the 2022 edition. Checco, are you coming to Sanremo this time ?, the conductor and artistic director asks him in a clip shown on the news, a summary of the negotiations that led to the engagement. But have you finished paying the mortgage? Did you buy your son a house? Because afterwards you won’t work anymore, at most Telelombardia, replies the Apulian comedian, accepting.
Zalone, according to the previews, will be present at the Festival in one of the five evenings of the festival, scheduled from 1 to 5 February. What will he do on stage for all to see: later I
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e her vaccinated, real catchphrases on the net, will give the Rai1 audience a new hit dedicated to the pandemic? Music, among other things, brought luck to the director and actor (44 years old, real name Luca Medici) in his most recent television appearance: in May he was awarded a little surprise at the David di Donatello 2021 for the song Immigrant, soundtrack of his latest film Tolo Tolo, crowned best original song in spite of the controversy of those who considered it a piece full of racist stereotypes. If I knew I would come, he had commented on that occasion, connected from home with the awards ceremony.
Italian box office champion with every film (the total proceeds are around 220 million euros), loved and hated for the often irreverent comedy, in 2019 Zalone had said no to the Festival also because he was about to leave for Kenya, where he shot some parts of Tolo Tolo. In 2017, however, he had reached Sanremo virtually, with a video in which he dedicated a good luck in his style to the then competitor Al Bano, defined as the second most important Apulian in Italy.
This year, for the first time, he will be on stage in flesh and blood, despite a Festival still not at 100% capacity – as the mayor of Sanremo Alberto Biancheri has repeatedly stated – which among other things will not have an outdoor stage in Piazza Colombo for collateral events. Judging by the warning addressed to Amadeus, Checco has no intention of holding back. But now, the video proves it, The signed contract.
January 8, 2022 (change January 9, 2022 | 10:15)
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