Marco Bocciguest of Domenica In today, Sunday 28 December 2025, he returned to talk about the disease faced in 2018, herpetic encephalitis, “a sort of brain herpes that causes brain damage“, he explained to Mara Venier and to the Rai 1 audience. He had already said some time ago that he had forgotten part of his memories. “There is a part of memory that has returned, another that I have lost. It was complicated to come to terms with everything at that moment. I didn’t remember anything at first. Then I learned to live with it, and I no longer have such an iron and solid memory“, the words. The health problem that affected him allowed him to appreciate the present, and to stop making too many plans for the future: “I am optimistic and positive by nature, I was lucky anyway for what I had. Before I organized the future, today I have changed inside myself. I live everything without making plans, and this helps me enjoy the moments”.
This evening the actor is among the protagonists of the mini series If I were youin which he stars alongside his long-time partner and wife, Laura Chiatti. “Laura and I have been together for 11 years and we are in crisis for the newspapers for the 70th time. I think “Keep saying it, it’s good luck” commented Marco Bocci that, when he began his new commitment on set with his wife, he was “embarrassed”. On Domenica In he said he spent “whole days” together with Chiatti”to consult us, to understand how to characterize the characters”: “EIt’s embarrassing for meit was new. When you enter a character, you tell someone else through yourself. You’re used to doing it with strangers, doing it with my partner was strange to me”he explained. They play Massimo Mancuso and Valentina Sangiorgi, a widowed worker and rich businesswoman who, due to a Christmas miracle, swap bodies and find themselves forced to “get to know each other”.
