«If until two or three years ago I didn’t go out without makeup and perfect hair, now I open the beauty shop once a week. If I work, makeup is my uniform”
Martina Colombari, Miss Italy at 16 years old In the 1991 she has been a model for big brands like Armani e Versacehas participated in several TV broadcasts and has been an actress in many films over the years Ninety. Today three and a half million Italians have seen it in “Good Way” with Checco Zalone. And they saw it ugly, aged, with gray hair. «Nobody recognizes me. Nobody. They have to wait until the second or third scene to realize it’s me. I have little make-up, big glasses, gray hair. Which in reality it’s not an ugly thingI’m just a woman who decided to leave the world of jet set who lived with her ex-husband, Checco. My Linda she fell in love with a Palestinian director-writer and, from a former model, she became a busy theater actress and also has a metamorphosis in her appearance”, she says today to Corriere della Sera.
When she first saw herself as Linda “I said: how cool! But me, when Zalone and the director Gennaro Nunziante they told me what I would become, I didn’t hesitate for a moment. I was so happy to be able to play with my beauty. Then, it is always difficult to address these issues, because they are misunderstood. I was born with a beauty pageant and I built a career on that. I have always carried beauty with me, I have always exploited it and I have also protected it. But on social media I was attacked for a thousand reasons, because I was too thin, because a Dancing with the stars I talked about mine menopausebecause if they see you doing sports they think it’s vanity, while I care about keeping fit now that I have 50 yearsin order to be active and lucid a 90».
Cinema and life
Columbariums he says that when he discovered that in the script he had to report the disappearance of his daughter «I immediately thought of the time when also Achille he did not return home. So yes: I was involved. Having said that: kids today have great difficulty finding their identity, understanding who they are and what they want. We parents take our responsibility, but the world they find is not that of our adolescence: it is demanding, high-performance, very fast. AND social media tells him something that is not reality. Then, I’m not against social media: they are a medium. Ironically, this film came from a message from the casting manager on Instagram.”
Zalone and Nunziante
About working with Checco Zalone and Gennaro Nunziante he says that «they are very much about acting by sensation, by improvisation. There were several rehearsals before the take, but not so much on how to say the line, but on comic timing, reactions, body attitude. Luca Medicistage name of Checco Zalone, is exactly how you see him in the movies. Then, off set, you perceive that he is shy, but he always tries to make you feel comfortable. We had many dinners together during the preparation of the film: it’s nice to find normal people in our world.”
“Gaza Mia”
Colombardi says they laughed a lot «for one of the heaviest jokes what Checco does, about my partner: “He is the only Palestinian who occupies a territory, Gaza MiaComing from him, it’s hilarious: at the premiere, the cinema went down with laughter.” And according to her, Italians like the film “because we are saturated: wars, problems, work… In front of this film, you manage not to think about anything. And in my opinion, we need to take back our lives a little: go back to doing what’s good for us, not just what “it must”. I stopped going to dinners just “because I have to”, I prefer to focus on the connections that matter.”
Linda
Today, she says, she is almost ready for a metamorphosis like that of Linda: «If until two or three years ago I didn’t go out without makeup and perfect hair, now I open the beauty shop once a week. If I work, makeup is my uniform, I’ll do it in February Friday 13th a comedy in the theater by Jean-Pierre Martinezand in April at the cinema I will even be an android in Truer Than True, but in life I can go out wearing seven colors and I don’t care. It’s just that Martina is no longer there: there is a different one, the one who goes to a meditation retreat, comes back and says to herself “I took care of myself””.
