Vittoria Schisano underlines the prejudices we still have in Italy for those who have chosen a transition path. The actress is the protagonist of the series Netflix The life you wantedwhich tells the story of Gloria, who faced a transition path similar to hers.
Gloria is happy
“In Italy a woman who has undergone a transition journey is never the protagonist of a story, there is always the filter of prejudice and lack of knowledge“, commented Vittoria Schisano in an interview with Mirrorunderlining that the director Ivan Cotroneo with The life you wanted, has finally broken this taboo. Gloria is “a happy woman, fulfilled in her work. Not a saint, she makes her mistakes like any other woman”. The actress also specifies that the transition path of the protagonist Gloria is only “one of the nuances of the character: the mistake is to think that a person is only his identity, it’s not true, he is many other things, if anything he should be labeled for his actions”.
Ignorance and information
And regarding the ‘too much fagotism’ out there, Vittoria Schisano he replies: “There is too much ignorance. It must be fought with the information that a certain type of politics doesn’t do it because it enjoys creating distances and deciding who the citizens of series A and series B are, without putting everyone in front of the same rights and duties as it should. It must be fought at school, in the family, through newspapers, books, films and series TV”. And finally he underlines. “Because a story isn’t just meant to entertain us and an actor isn’t just a pretty face that smiles: we are responsible for the stories we tell, I know I’m playing politics every time I speak”.
