«I took a lot of slaps to defend my ideas»

Riccardo Scamarcio returns to the cinema on May 1st with “Six Brothers”, the story of an extended family. His story wasn’t like that in reality. He told La Repubblica: «My father and my mother were together until he left us. A canonical family, but with turbulence. With my two brothers we are united, but we suffered the repercussions of the loss of dad, which made us creak. Then fortunately and out of necessity we talk every day.”

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An example father for Riccardo: «He was obsessed with the concept of honesty, being a man of his word. Today it sounds like an archaic concept, but I followed this and found myself happy.” His colleague Arianna Finos asks him what remains in him of the boy from “Three meters above the sky”. Twenty years have passed but «he is alive and well, I have defended and protected him from everything, in these years. The essence of that boy is alive, inside the body of a grown and mature man.” A lot remains of that boy: “The phone calls with Andria’s childhood friends, in dialect, we supported each other over the years.” cinema arrived and «took me away from the streets of Andria where I wandered around as a teenager. I could escape into another world».

A world that he chose with victories and defeats: «I have experienced moments of discouragement and real defeat, for example difficult relationships with directors. But I recognize that I have been good because I have always taken the hardest path. When I got slapped, and I got it pretty hard, it was because maybe there was too high an ambition behind it, which I couldn’t afford at that moment. But never because I agreed to advertise, make money with social media. The real defeat is giving up ideals.”

Riccardo does not hide the fact that he has always taken a position on political and social issues at La Repubblica. «Paying a price, sometimes a high one. Anyone who expresses their thoughts freely is then the subject of criticism, even heavy and painful criticism, especially when your intentions are intended, as in my case, to attract attention. Maybe I even say the wrong things, but I aim to make people reflect, shine a light on humanity, which seems to me to be the thing most at risk at the moment.”

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