“When I won the first David I thought: ‘And when will it happen again?‘. And I followed the advice of Alexander Villages: other than 30 seconds of thanks, I seemed like the priest of Honeymoons…”. Fresh from the second David di Donatello for the role of Marisa in There’s still tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi, Emanuela Fanelli remember the first David, won in 2023. And at the Turin Book Fair he talks about the actors he followed and loved most in his life: among others, Monica Vitti, Franca Valeri, Alberto Sordi, Aldo Fabrizi. Remembering, with irony, his first encounter with the world of acting. At just 4 years old she saw Alida Chelli at the theater in the musical comedy Add a place at the table by Garinei and Giovannini, which conquered and fascinated her and of which she began to sing the entire soundtrack set to music by Armando Trovajoli, unaware of the numerous double meanings contained in the lyrics: “I sang it loudly on the street and on public transport, with my poor mother telling me ‘lower your voice a little’, I really sounded like a social worker…”.
