«For Simone Inzaghi I gave up the Actor’s Studio. Acting naked? Only if Sorrentino asked me”

Alessia Marcuzzi on May 3 he will join Carlo Conti on Rai 1 at the David di Donatello awards ceremony.

She gives the impression of being a light fake. She has a restlessness about her, behind her freshness and friendliness.
«It’s like this. It’s no coincidence that my favorite actress is Monica Vitti. Every now and then someone says that I physically resemble her. Her blondness, her voiceless voice… A champion who combined comedy with auteur cinema.”

Two worlds that struggle to communicate. Ai David will meet the authors. Does he know that they take everyone seriously there?
«They’re telling me, and then outside of that context they’re very nice to them. I don’t want to have the responsibility of bringing smiles, even if they certainly didn’t call me to open the envelopes with the names of the winners. I will try to do what comes to me at the moment.”

First movie seen?
«ET at the Drive In, the open-air cinema in Casal Palocco, where I lived. I was 12 years old, for a long time I wanted to fly with my bike and that little monster in the basket. Casal Palocco, as Nanni Moretti says in Caro Diario, refers to dogs behind gates, to pizzas in cartons, to the smell of overalls worn instead of clothes. My grandfather had three daughters for whom he bought a little house each there.”

Her loving Nanni Moretti is news.
“Why? I love his realism and his irony. And then he too, like me, hates mules, shoes closed at the front and open at the heel.”

You starred in Veronesi’s My West.
«I am the maïtresse of the brothel, Harvey Keitel’s lover, while David Bowie rapes and kills me. I was 26 years old, I felt like I was in Heaven. It’s no small thing to be killed by David Bowie. Her presence put incredible tension on everyone, she already scared before his arrival. He was polite, always dressed as a cowboy, even when he didn’t have to go around. We became friends with Keitel, he gave me a lot of compliments and advised me to take acting courses at the Actor’s Studio. I didn’t do it because I met my son Tommaso’s father (Simone Inzaghi, Inter coach). But since I was little I dreamed of becoming an actress. As a child in the living room in front of my parents I did imitations of Ornella Vanoni and Maurizio Costanzo’s living room. I wanted to get paid, dad you have to give me a little money. I exhausted them with shows that lasted four hours. I’ll pay you if you stop, my father said.”

And later…
«I signed up for Letters with a focus on Entertainment. When they showed Battleship Potemkin in a lesson I fell asleep, that film reminded me of Fantozzi. Then I started presenting on TV.”

He starred in just four films.
“I have no regrets, I did something else, maybe I wasn’t good enough.”

Do you see Oscar Night?
«Yes, every year I force those around me to stay up all night. I cry at every acceptance speech. My daughter Mia (she is 12 years old and wants to be an actress) parodies me, she takes a bottle of mineral water pretending it is the statuette, she steals my dress and dedicates the Oscar to me.”

In fact you refer to the hosting of reality shows, The Island of the Famous, Big Brother…
«These are Italian clichés. In America you can do both small and big screen. I love cinema. And the love increased when I was with Pietro Sermonti. Perfect Days by Wim Wenders, where the little man who cleans the bathrooms makes you think about not having too many things in your head, made me light up.”

What if they asked you to undress for a film?
«These questions are only asked of women. Mhhh, I’m waiting for Sorrentino and Lanthimos, the director of Poor Creatures, to ask me.”

At the David meeting she fell and broke her dress.
«The heel went under the skirt…I fall often, I’m clumsy. My favorite foreign film at the Davids is the one that will win the prize, Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet. But I swear it’s not because of my shattered knee. Even today I still don’t understand whether the protagonist is guilty of her husband’s death or not. At the Davids I will ask the director directly.”