The sudden fame thanks to “Non è la Rai”, the first role in the cinema and then again in the theatre, the problems with her body and the rediscovered relationship with her ex-husband, Francesco Rengawith whom she was married from 2004 to 2015. Guest of the “Riviera International Film Festival”, Amber Angiolini she told her story in full, without making concessions to anyone, not even herself.
«Seeing two people who have separated, but who still love each other, causes doubts, uncertainties – said the 47-year-old actress and presenter, referring to Renga, with whom she recently celebrated her birthday together with her children Jolanda and Leonardo – But look which is not healthy. It is much healthier to believe that something can really be saved, because it’s the right thing. It can happen that two separated people still say I love you, and it is clear that it has a value linked to something great from the past that we happily share. Once we had overcome the disappointment and anger, we found each other again for the reason we had chosen each other, that is, out of crazy love. I don’t think I’ve ever found such a great love again, otherwise J wouldn’t have been bornHolland and Leonardoand in the name of that love I continue to think that I must respect what we promised each other when our children were born.”
Speaking of “It’s not Rai”, Ambra is aware “that she had a hard time”, but then it wasn’t all sunshine and roses. “Being famous is dangerous when you don’t know what job you do,” she explained. When being famous becomes a job, when you don’t know why you’re popular. It happened to me that I was only famous at the beginning of my career, without having taken the measures, and it is something that can be very scary.” The film debut in “Saturno Contro” by Fernan Özpetek it was the turning point. «He put his trust in me, and he was the first – he said -. I had recently given birth, I had just become a mother and I felt very fragile. It therefore seemed impossible to me that someone would want me precisely because of that fragility that seemed uncomfortable and strange to me. From that moment on, fragility became a fundamental trait of my work, I nourished it, nourished it, I made it become a superpower.”
Fresh from the success of the theater show “Olive Money”, based on the novel by Viola Ardone and based on the story of Franca Viola, who in the 1960s was the first woman to refuse marriage after having suffered violence, Ambra then recalled the problems she experienced in the past with her own body. “I I always felt wrong – put – . I remember that once I was at the airport, I was about 15 years old, and in a shop window I read a newspaper headline under a photo of me. It said “Ambra is bursting with success”, bursting in the sense that I had become fat. It really took me many years to understand that in that photo I wasn’t 5 kilos heavier, but I was 5 kilos less happy, and those were the kilos I should have gained back. Even when the whole world tells you that you are no good, that you are not suitable, that you are the least of the least, you must continue to believe it and do what you love, always.”
