Guest from Mara Venier a “Sunday in” to promote the two-episode mini-fiction in which he co-stars with his wife Laura Chiatti, Marco Bocci he returned to talk about the effects of an illness that struck him a few years ago. The actor and director, in fact, had herpetic encephalitis, “a herpes that instead of going to the mouth goes to the brain”, explained Bocci. The damaged areas in his case were those of speech and memory.
If speech was gradually recovered by the actorthe memory area is still exposed to greater fragility today. Bocci explained that he has now learned to live with this problem and also joked: “I will see a film even five times without realizing that I have already seen it.” This illness, however, also had repercussions on the actor’s working life, as he had the opportunity to explain in a special episode of Gianluca Gazzoli’s podcast, “Pass by BSMT”: “The biggest difficulty is with the theatre: before, it took me twenty days to memorize a text in the theatre, now I have to have the script at least four months in advance”.
Bocci, at “Sunday in”, he also had the opportunity to explain how this difficulty allowed him to improve his life: “I was lucky and you have to live off the luck you had, appreciating everything to the fullest. I really like living every moment, the present, before I used to give myself a lot more mental blowjobs. Before I tried to plan things much more, to organize my future. Now – and it’s not a deliberate choice, I’ve just changed – I live everything without making plans and I realize that on the one hand it’s less tiring. This way you enjoy every moment and you have the chance to focus more on others, on who is in front of you.”
