“Favino is absolutely right.” With these words, the director Pupi Avati intervened in the controversy caused by the statements of the actor Pierfrancesco Favino about Italian characters played by foreign actors. “Since it often happens that Americans make films about Italians, it makes sense that they would be played by Italians.” “Ferrari, a man from Modena who comes from Nebraska, is a little funny,” Avati told AdnKronos and was referring to the film Ferrari by Michael Mann, in which Adam Driver plays the owner of the famous car team. At the press conference, Favino, protagonist of the film Comandante, which opened the Lido Film Festival, called for “creating a system” so that Italian characters in films are played by Italian actors. “When I made the film about Dante Alighieri, we were seduced by the idea of having Al Pacino play,” Avati underlines to Adn. But even though he is an Italian American, we later changed our minds. And thank God we chose Sergio Castellitto and Alessandro Sperduti, Italian actors.” The comment from Edwige Fenech, an Italian actress and producer naturalized in France, quoted by Repubblica also goes in the same direction: “Favino is right, the Americans were There’s a lot more space in Italian films than the other way around.” Although Favino has already appeared in several American films, we can’t make a comparison at all. Even in the movie Gucci the actors are great actors for heaven’s sake, but they’re not Italian. Apart from putting a pathetic veil over the film, it is certainly not the right way to portray a family,” said Fenech. However, for Gabriele Salvatores, Italian director and screenwriter, “the situation is much more complicated than it seems.” “We should – he concludes – think about it more deeply, and in any case the fact that we are discussing it today shows the importance the topics.”
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