Known for her girl-next-door roles, the actress is the companion of a drug trafficker in the film in which Nicolas Cage recounts his (real) failures. The TV movie about Carla Fracci? We were unlucky. I’m single again, I look around
Alessandra Mastronardi strict with herself, self-critical; her graceful and gentle looks many times have led her to girl-next-door roles. Meg Ryan built her career on it. I see it as a limit.
Change record?
I’ve just done it. In
Otherwise we get angry
I am a circus gypsy, I handle the knife, I train tigers and I speak a strange language invented by me. And I’m the woman of a drug trafficker, In
The Unbereable Weight of Massive Talent
by Tom Gormican (out April 22), where Nicolas Cage talks about himself. But up to a certain point.
That is?
He jokingly says: this is the story of Nick Cage, not of Nicolas Cage. It is based on his life, on his dissatisfaction as an actor, certain bad choices, debts. But fictionalized about the Mexican drug trafficker his fan inviting him to his birthday and Nicolas is hired by the CIA to get information. It is a comedy of misunderstandings. He says that the most difficult thing will be to make people understand what is true and what is fictional, for example, he always says that he, on the contrary, of the film, does not neglect his children.
Why do you live in London?
I needed a change of scenery, to grow, to raise the bar. I decided that seven years ago. I experienced the shock of the pre and post Brexit, the dear life, the half-empty supermarkets, the friends who were leaving.
Italy seen from afar?
You love it much more, you focus on beautiful things, the light of Rome, the warm colors ranging from orange to sepia, it becomes a suddenly romantic city. When I come back, the defects come on me, especially the abandonment.
She started very young.
At 12, by chance. My parents left me and my sister on holiday by the sea in Fregene, where they organized games and a parade for children. A film agent noticed me and offered me an audition. My father, a psychotherapist, told me yes as long as it was only summer or weekend commitments. My first film was, with Barbara D’Urso,
Van Hecken’s manuscript.
How was your adolescence?
The high school years were the most difficult. I was acting, I was uncomfortable for my classmates, in one of my commercials with Ozpetek the director and Gianni Morandi, and they made fun of me, I was quite bullied, even if at the time this term did not exist, they stole my cell phone … they were the parents.
And the job?
Until I was 25, I didn’t have the courage to write on my identity document that I was an actress. I became a self-taught person on the field. If you go to an acting school and you get it wrong, they correct you; if you’re wrong in front of millions of viewers… I had the role usurper syndrome. My school was
I Cesaroni
, only then I grew up, I wanted to emancipate myself from that common and folk Romanity, I always felt rejected. I was wrong, I have learned over the years.
She has made 25 films and 19 TV series, for she is perceived as a television actress.
That’s true, because I’ve done very popular series and I miss the movie with the bite. For I loved The last wheel of the wagon by Veronesi with Elio Germano who takes you by the hand, the scenes come to life and you don’t realize it, everything is not only natural but felt. The series I love The pupilwhere I am a freak in the clouds, but not stupid, halfway between Bridget Jones’s diary e Alice in Wonderland e Sex and the City.
Was the TV movie about Carla Fracci too sugary?
Opinions were conflicting. The misfortune was that he died in those months, it was as if everyone expected a movie about her in retrospect, in her memory. It wasn’t like that.
How do you live the auditions?
They are the most painful part of the job, when they go wrong they are a waste, hard not to take it personally. A director once told me that he would take me if I had another tone of voice, mine bothered him.
He worked with Woody Allen, Clooney, Pattinson …
Woody Allen in
To Rome With Love
it was few words but sharp as a scalpel, he changed direction to a scene he was not convinced by giving me a glass in his hand, pretending to be drunk he took another turn; the commercial with George Clooney, well he called everyone by name, right up to the last one, and a sign of respect; the same one that had Pattinson in
Life (about the photographer who followed James Dean)
: he was always on the set, even in the scenes that didn’t concern him.
Is she 36, will she marry her fiancé, Scottish actor Ross McCall?
We actually broke up, which lasted four years. I am one of long stories. Unfortunately not gone. Now I look around, I breathe the spring.
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