Anna Ferzetti was the protagonist in Filming Italy Los Angeles, the festival directed and organized by Tiziana Rocca, where she was awarded for her artistic career. The screening of La Grazia by Paolo Sorrentino, a film in which the actress plays a central role alongside Tony Servillo, through intimate and universal themes such as the family, the law and the love for the institutions.
We start from the film presented here at Filming Italy Los Angeles, La Grazia. How was it working with Paolo Sorrentino?
I was very happy and honored: she entrusted me an important, beautiful and complex role. It was also, in some way, simple – in the highest sense of the term – because Paolo Sorrentino is a great writer and screenwriter. He writes wonderful, extremely clear things, and this film is written beautifully. For me and for Tony Servillo it was therefore more natural to stage this story, which is first of all a love film: love for the law, for the family, for the institutions. To tell and touch so many themes through this man is something important, especially at this historical moment. I felt really honored to be a part of it.
He told that Tony Servillo was almost like a father found on the set. What’s the relationship?
In the film I interpret your daughter, so our meeting was inevitably very intense. It was a relationship of great listening and trust: Tony is a generous colleague, with whom he was beautiful to work.
Did this role also touch personal strings?
Yes. I come from a particular private story: I had an important father, closed, in some respects similar to the character. Through this movie, I reopened things I thought I’d closed in my life. It was an important step, even on the personal level.
Almost therapeutic?
In part, yes. For some of us this profession is. We are lucky to be able to live many lives through the characters we interpret, often complex and deep, and this helps to better understand our own.
The recitation goes through his whole family.
Yes, it is. We are many: between dubbing, journalism, art, cinema… is an environment that has always been breathing, a little like in the circus families who carry on a tradition.
Are your children following this path?
Not yet, and that’s right. They have to study, have fun, figure out what they want to do. The great is twenty years old, the other thirteen: they are passionate, we will see what will happen, but it is still early.
In Filming Italy we also talk about women in the cinema. How do you see today the female role, between Italy and Hollywood?
The change is in progress: we women made us feel and continue to do so. It is a slow process, because discarding certain structures is difficult, but I think a lot about acting more than talking. This festival is directed by a woman who believes deeply in cinema and carries out her mission with passion: it is the eleventh edition, a sign that the women who fight there are and are many. And when we’re together, we’re an extraordinary force. I am deeply pro-woman, woman power all the time.
L’articolo Anna Ferzetti a Filming Italy Los Angeles: “Grace is a deep and necessary love film” comes from IlNewyorkese.
