Giovanna Mezzogiorno: "I had gained 20 kg and the cinema excluded me" La Gazzetta dello Sport

The actress presented the short film Unfitting, in which she tells her story and talks about body shaming

Giovanna Mezzogiorno presented the short film at the Rome Film Festival Inappropriate which he is the director and which is inspired by his personal story. It focuses on the story of an actress who was rejected because her physical appearance did not meet beauty standards.

Giovanna Mezzo presents inappropriately

In his directorial debut Giovanna Mezzogiorno, With the support of the actors Carolina Crescentini, Ambra Angiolini, Massimiliano CaiazzoMarco Bonini, Moira Mazzantini and Fabio Volo dealt with the topic of body shaming in their entertainment world. The short film is also accompanied by the song Il Paradiso dei Liaggi by Tiziano Ferro. As he also said a few weeks ago, he was expecting the short film that was presented at the Rome Film Festival on October 22nd, Giovanna Mezzogiorno traced her personal story. The actress is now pregnant with 12-year-old twins Leone and Zeno he had gained 20 kilos. And as she struggled to return to her previous physical form, she began to feel excluded from the world of cinema as she found no support from her colleagues. He said no one had said it to his face, but when his physical form was no longer what it once was, he began to feel emptiness around him.

Body shaming immediately

“There’s a lot of talk about it, but never really talked about how serious it can be for a person,” he said at a news conference while discussing the issue Body shaming. “I wasn’t fat for 10 years because I had twins, but also because I was lazy. We have to be honest, it was my fault too. But that shouldn’t become a weapon to insult, denigrate and say that I was sick or anything serious. Speech at a press conference Giovanna Mezzogiorno She told how she was hosting a film on a Sunday show some time ago and had a cyst in her left eye. “I can’t deny it made me look scary, but then I read comments that made me cringe.”

Drive to lose weight

“I, who am almost 50 years old, felt very bad,” she told IlMessaggero, emphasizing how complicated it can be to deal with this form of bullying for a younger girl. Giovanna Mezzogiorno said she ended up losing weight “I allowed myself to be influenced by my surroundings. I’ve gone crazy. I underwent a vigorous weight loss process that had serious consequences for my health. In the end they managed to make me lose 20 kilos, but at what cost.” The actress presents the short film Inappropriate He emphasized: “Everyone thinks they know something about other people’s lives, but in reality you know nothing about people’s intimate lives.”

isolated from the world of cinema

The protagonist of films like “The Last Kiss” and “Facing Window” told how She didn’t expect that the world of cinema would distance her and turn its back on her in a moment like the one he experienced. No one helped her: “Not even the actor who I thought was a brother, but who vanished into thin air when the cinema started excluding me and spreading legends about an alleged illness.” She didn’t even find solidarity among her colleagues: “The women were crueler than the men, there is no female solidarity.” The actress did not name any names, but knows everyone who discriminated against and insulted her.

October 23rd – 8:09 p.m