Massimo Boldi has enough years of career behind him to be able to afford the luxury of giving an account of successes and disappointments: the Milanese comedian has given himself in these hours for a long interview with Repubblica during which he indulged in a few memories, including an unexpected revelation about Raffaella Carrà.
“In 1974 Pozzetto took me to Canzonissima. With the same dazed comedy of Cochi and Renato, and after all the school was the same, the Derby. They paid me 50 thousand lire per episode. Even if I risked doing just a few: Carrà hated me because he didn’t understand this way of doing things LAUGH” were the words of the protagonist of many films with Christian De Sica (by the way, recently Boldi said he was ready to return with a new cinepanettone).
A problem, that of approval, which has always also concerned specialized critics: “Oh sure, film and TV critics they always bullied me. But I didn’t care and I always thought about the public, who always reciprocated me. I do instinctive, gut-level comedy. I don’t see the problem” explained Boldi. Furthermore, success and critical acclaim do not always go hand in hand: Massimo Boldi, in this respect, will always continue to be an extremely divisive character.
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