Giancarlo Giannini tells Ti Sento, program by Pierluigi Diaco, about his life on the threshold of 80 years. From the untimely loss of his son Lorenzo to the horrors of war, the actor spares himself and expresses all his emotions.
Rai2 late night program guest Ti Sento, Giancarlo Giannini traces the most intense moments of his life. An extraordinary career as an actor, a private person full of emotions, told Pierluigi Diaco, to whose questions the actor answers with discretion, but without sparing himself and divulging all his experience. From the death of his son to the memories of a war he experienced as a child and whose images and feelings of those dramatic moments are still vivid in his mind.
The loss of the son
A man of undoubted charisma and great temperament who, at the age of 80, due to be completed on August 1st, tells his story without filters and, as in one of the many films in which he was the protagonist, traces the most intense moments, that he holds beneath his memories, even painful ones. However, the greatest pain of all time was the death of her son Lorenzo, her firstborn, who died suddenly at the age of twenty from an aneurysm: “When my son died, I said: now he is better off than us. Watching a child die is a terrible thing“An affliction he grapples with every day despite the years that have passed is a wound that cannot be healed, as the actor suggests by speaking openly with the journalist who cuts through his past with memories.
The memory of the war experienced as a child
In a humanly difficult moment, when two brother countries are fighting each other, the memories of the war he experienced when he was a child cannot resurface: “I lived it in the most violent way: cannon shots on one Side, cannon reels… imagine I was only 2 or 3 years old but I lived them, I still have them in my eyes And in that context the actor doesn’t give a damn about the way , how the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is being approached: “Wars, if you want peace, you can not fight with guns. I look less, I prefer not to see them, because I know what it means.” and because war is one of the bitchiest things you can do.”