“A terrible experience, done for money. I felt manipulated, thrown into a huge cauldron of gossip. I was wrong. It wasn’t for me. I apologize to my audience, who has always supported me, for everything that came after. I, naively, got carried away“. Massimiliano Morra confess to TvBlog repentance for having participated in the fifth edition of Big Brother VIP, in the 2020-2021 season. The actor explains that it was a choice that came during the period in which, due to the pandemic, many sets were closed:
After winning the ‘The most beautiful in Italy’ competition in 2010 – a few years earlier the same recognition had arrived for Gabriel Garko – my agent took me to the TV drama castings Puppet with Manuela Arcuri. I was chosen as the male lead. Since that moment I have worked on prestigious sets with the greatest Italian actresses, from Virna Lisi to Stefania Sandrelli and Giuliana De Sio. I shared the set with important Italian and international actors such as Remo Girone and Burt Young. I was presented as the new Gabriel Garko, but I had always dreamed of a film career like Kim Rossi Stewart.
Morra continues his story by observing that at that point in his career “I had demonstrated my strength, my determination and I had honed my artistic weapons“. Therefore, “I was ready for the A series cinema that I so longed for“. And instead, afterwards Fury 2a period of stalemate arrived, with the phone stopping ringing:
I didn’t understand what was happening. So many strange and serious accusations. Things I understood later. Someone who didn’t love me acted against me, trying to destroy me by speaking badly of me to my artistic fathers, Tarallo and Losito of Ares.
At that point, also thanks to a bad car accident that caused him a cerebral hemorrhage during the period of his participation in dancing with the Starsin 2018 Massimiliano Morra falls in depression and goes to psychoanalysis. Then, with the set stop due to Covid, comes the adventure in the Canale 5 reality show. Upon leaving the Cinecittà House, depression becomes a nightmare. What saves him is the newfound friendship and artistic collaboration with his usual agent Rosario Porzio. The rebirth of Morra bears the title of Daniele Catini’s short film, We’ll let you knowand the theatrical operation The innkeeper by Nando Sessa, shared with her friend she met on the set of Fury 2 Raffaella di Caprio and with Raffaella Fico:
The road is long and complex, but I don’t give up. As a good Leo, my motto has always been – insist and persist, achieve and conquer.
