- The 51-year-old actor returns to TV with a new project after a long absence
- He explained to Il Corriere della Sera how 2016 was a turning point for him
- He was in Sanremo and the villa he was staying in exploded while he was inside
Gabriel Garko revealed that having seen the death in the face In the 2016 it completely changed his life.
The 51-year-old actor in an interview with ‘The Corriere della Sera’ he explained that he thinks that something good can always come out of negative situations.
The Piedmontese interpreter, Roman by adoption, will return to the air after a long time. From March 29th he will be the protagonist of ‘If I could say goodbye’ on Canale5, next to Anna Safroncik.
“When something unpleasant happens to us, at that moment we say: what the hell, did it have to happen to me? Then you realize that a negative event can give rise to a negative one positive”he has declared.
For him to have miraculously survived theexplosion of the house where he stayed at Sanremo in 2016, caused by a gas leak which led to the death of a womanrepresented a turning point.
“For example, when in 2016 I found myself in the villa explosion, near Sanremo: an accident that it changed my life, I ended up under the rubble, I felt death was close… but precisely from that episode, from which I left miraculously savedI decided to enjoy life, to face things positively… I put the pieces back in place”he underlined.
On the new drama in three episodes, directed by Izzo and Tognazzi, he said: “I accepted this project because it was the right one to return to acting. In recent years I have drifted away not to definitively retire from the scene, but because I needed to disconnect. Fame is sometimes suffocating, I felt the need for a new lung, to breathe different air”.
Since he did coming out live on Big Brother VIP, he did not experience problems related to his emotional orientation: “I never noticed any discrimination and no mention of unfortunate jokes”.
“As for certain statements by those who believe that heterosexual roles must be played by straight actors and gay ones must be entrusted to gays, I would reply: actors must not play themselves, but get under the skin of a character different from them”he concluded.
