It was May 1, 2018, when the life of Marco Bocci has taken a different direction. The actor was in Umbria, at the Magione racetrack, because he was participating in a race. He had a bad accident. The rush to the hospital, the intervention then the discovery of his illness. At Corriere.it, Bocci told: “That incident made it clear, it slatentizzato my illness, made it possible to ascertain and diagnose it, brain herpes, which otherwise would have had a course with irreversible results “.
How his life changed after the discovery of the disease
Marco Bocci has made his experience universal, giving life to the theatrical monologue Lo Zingaro. After such a discovery, it is impossible for the gaze on life to be the same as before. The actor has stopped meticulously planning events in the distant future. After the illness discovered how fundamental it is “live day by day“, take care of every moment, keep your feet firmly planted in the present:
“In normality, the perception of death is not intrusively close to you, but only when it touches you personally do you understand how close it is to you and you stick to the present a lot, putting off every project. To me anger came, a desire for life that I didn’t have before the nightmare. “
After the accident he never ran again
Marco Bocci said that after the accident, he never ran again. Sometimes he happened to dream about it, but he didn’t feel like doing it. If he has chosen to give up this passion, it is also for the love he feels for his children, Aeneas and Pablo, and for his wife Laura Chiatti who nevertheless has never hindered him in pursuing his passions:
“Paternal responsibility makes you lose unconsciousness and the importance of affects prevails. If you smell dangerous, stay away from him. My wife has always stimulated me not to give up my passions, my work and in fact I have just finished shooting a new movie, Bastardi a mano armata, a thriller directed by Gabriele Albanesi. However she is much happier if I don’t run“.
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