Paolo Genovese loves actors and always chooses them with intelligence, each time managing to bring out something new from each of them or prompting them to reflect on important issues. It happened with Margherita Buy and Sara Serraiocco, whom we interviewed together with the director for Il primo giorno della mia vita.
Con Margherita Buy sitting on one side e Sara Serraiocco on the other, and therefore blessed among women, Paul Genoese told us about his new film, which is called The first day of mine life and is based on the novel of the same name written by the director in 2018. The story that the book told took place in New York. In the transition to the cinema, the setting has changed, and Rome is the backdrop to the story of four would-be suicides, a silent, rainy, often dark and practically deserted Rome as in the times of the pandemic. And in fact the film was shot in full lockdown, when the bewilderment and profound loneliness that the protagonists of the story feel were on the agenda for almost all of us.
This is exactly what we spoke to Genovese and its actresses during a short but dense interview, in which the Buy he explained to us work he did on the character of Arianna and the Serraiocco (which plays the role of Emilia) told us about the competitiveness that makes both the actor’s and the athlete’s job difficult.
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The first day of my life is also played by Tony Servillowho plays the part of a kind of angel or in any case a supernatural being who gives another week of life to Arianna, Emiliato a bullied boy named Daniele and to a terribly depressed motivator. The latter is played by Valerio Mastandrea.
