Diego Abatantuono was interviewed in the newspaper The truth, on the occasion of the presentation of the Ambrogino d’oro, an award that the city of Milan bestows on influential and significant personalities for the Lombard capital. The actor spoke about his career, the ability to make people laugh: “You have to know who you are dealing with, understand the people and the country you live in.” and, in this regard, answered some questions about the current Italian political situation.
Comedy in Italy
His work as an actor began by chance, but Abatantuono managed to bring to the big and small screen characters that later became unforgettable: “the character of terrunciello Initially I used it to close the show, but it was requested so much, it worked so well, that little by little it won”. Cinema knew how to convey both the comic and the tragic veins of the Italians, but it seems that the latter may have surpassed the former in recent years:
If you laugh in Italy? We laugh a lot, we laugh if things make us laugh. The Italian comedy of Monicelli, Scola, Comencini, Risi and great actors like Sordi, Gassman, Tognazzi, Gian Maria Volontè or Mastroianni… well, that generation was of such a high level that it was difficult to continue. They were exciting and moving films at the same time. However, cinema has changed. Of course, the quality may have dropped.
Diego Abatantuono talks about Citizenship Income
Despite being one of the best known faces of Italian cinema, Abatantuono never delved into political issues: “I don’t like to talk about it. Politics is made of people. There are honest and dishonest ones.🇧🇷 The right is in government because it was voted by the people, and the left would be there if it had managed to move well. That’s democracy.” The actor then completed, reflecting on the ability of Italians to find shortcuts to their problems:
With Covid, there are those who took advantage. The citizenship income and the Superbonus were good ideas, but we must remember that ours is the country described by Scola, in the movie The Monsters: Tognazzi teaches his son the tricks to trick the police, not paying for pasta at the bar, skipping the file , in short, to be smart. It’s not cool, you pay the consequences. Even today, telling someone they are a good person is a bit like calling them an idiot. And I said it all…
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