The actor of “Suburra” and “Sulla mia pelle” (and from 23 December to the cinema with “Superheroes”): I struggled to get to the cinema that I like
It never occurred to Alessandro Borghi that he could be an actor. Not when he was a stuntman (“it was just one of my three hundred jobs”), not when he crashed a David di Donatello at the age of 18 (“it seemed unthinkable to even go there with my ticket instead of another, let alone make part of those people “). And not even when, as a child, his father filmed him continuously: “We were on the ground floor in Viale Marconi, in Rome, I climbed over the balcony to go into the courtyard. Dad would take me from inside the house, I was all blond on my bike, I with the ball, then I fell, I peeled my knees, I went to him, piagnevo and he, always resuming: well it’s nothing. the piagnevo
, I went out again, I laughed ». It would perhaps be easy to tell how it is that he becomes an actor this crazy smiling boy and now very bearded because it is spinning The eight mountains
di Felix van Groeningen and that he did Devils con Patrick Dempsey, Suburra
directed by Stefano Sollima, and that in 2019 the David went invited and came out with the best protagonist statuette for On my skin
or that this summer he filmed in Norway with Peter Mullan and since 23 December, in the cinema, he is the protagonist of Super heroes
by Paolo Genovese. It might be easy, but it’s not because Borghi, 35, has lived a lot, but he also thinks a lot. “My head travels a lot,” he says, “as I arrived for the interview, I was in a taxi and I thought, so funny, that it’s hard to find a way to express yourself and be sure to communicate what you want to say. , but then, how much intelligence does it take to understand if the person you are talking to has the intelligence to understand what you are saying? It’s a double somersault, isn’t it? ‘
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I just realized he doesn’t like interviews. I err?
“I could be an astrophysicist and tell you about black holes, but then how do you know if I’m right or not? Being misrepresented terrifies me, perhaps because it took me years to understand not who I am but who I would like to be. The difference in the levels of communication is something I think about with tenderness because I grew up among people without education, but with what I call “a wonderful road education” ».
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And what would road education be?
«Knowing how to adapt to all types of human beings and situations. I wonder if I will ever be a dad, if my children will be able to learn it. To friends with children at private school, I ask: “In class, have they ever given him a pizza in the face?”. They answer: “Are you crazy?”. I have taken pizzas: each one, I learned something. Impact education ».
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Who did he get them from?
«Where I grew up, it was normal: you came and you had to create your own space. If you tried to be friends with whoever got 10, the repeaters would blow you up and, if you were friends with the repeaters, those with 10 would not talk to you anymore. To get by, the only thing was to be yourself. Until I was 16, I was only beaten. Still, if I see one who treats another badly, I feel something bad ».
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How did it come out?
“I had become abusive. Starting boxing saved me because it made me feel able to defend myself. Then you grow up and understand that instead of boxing it is better that you start reading two books, at least you defend yourself with words ».
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What did you want to grow up?
“I didn’t think about it. Then, I was given a book, The power of now. A world opened up to me, that of being in the present. I was coming out of a disappointment in love and it was a moment of extreme poverty, I didn’t have a penny, I was just doing odd jobs, but I remember that when I drove out of Rome in the evening to be a night watchman in a mirror palace I was happy as a child . I saw life as beautiful even when I was a salesman until 6pm and immediately afterwards the waiter until two in the morning ».
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He wrote on Instagram “I say this above all to kids who try to do my job, doing three jobs: good things happen.”
“I wrote it on my way back from Los Angeles. Peter Mullan had just told me about when Ken Loach, on the set of My name is Joe
, he said: Remember to always be the least important person in the room. That sentence echoed in my head making me think of all the people I learned something from, like Claudio Caligari and Valerio Mastandrea when we shot Do not be naughty, Peter Mullan o Charles Dance sul set di The Hanging Sun
… They all had a low ego: for them, communicating had to do only with transmitting information, while at times we let ourselves be overwhelmed by wanting to prove that we were the best. In fact, in the same post I also wrote: leave the ego aside and while I say it to you I am saying it to myself “.
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Did you have any ego problems?
“Yes, because it took me a long time to be able to make films the way I liked it. At the first take I was 18 and Sollima chose me for Suburra at 28. After ten years in the shadows I was looking for revenge … Like: now I’ll show you how much you have lost ».
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Before, he said “it took me years to figure out who I wanted to be.” What did he understand?
“The thing that has changed is that I have stopped being afraid to judge myself and to change. Irene, my girlfriend, always says: you have a lot of defects, but you are very resolved with yourself ».
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Irene Forti, HR manager, studies in London. Under a photo of her, she just wrote: fine. In the sense of «end. And she”.
«I am deeply in love with it. He always tells me: I love people who get up in the morning and know who they want to be. This phrase became an inspiration. Every day I ask myself: what do I want to do for myself, for others, for this world? The answer is not there, but the question itself activates a process that forces me to deal with myself in a different way “.
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And does it really have a lot of flaws?
“I have, but I have surpassed many. I was touchy and very full of myself ».
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Why is he laughing?
«All my life they have told me: you have beautiful eyes. And I was convinced that I had the most beautiful eyes on the planet. Then, growing up, you tell yourself: what a moron I was. It was also bad that I made fun of others in a way borrowed from the popular environment from which I came. Words have weight. The insult hurts. It happened to me too. For a long time I thought I had tics, but it was Tourette’s Syndrome. Do you feel that I have a strange breath every now and then? They are spasms. It is a neurological syndrome, with various symptoms: I have spasms or I blow on my fingers. After the diagnosis I stopped considering it a problem, because at least now I know what I have. ”
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And when he acts, how does he do it?
“It passes me. I gave myself a “poetic” explanation: my job is to put myself in someone else’s shoes; the other the Tourette does not have it and therefore, at that moment, neither do I. “
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If he hadn’t been stopped by a talent scout outside the gym, would he have become an actor?
“I would have done something because I’m someone who gets by, but I don’t think cinema: I did that audition only because my father told me:” You told him that this you went and now this or ”».
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Did she go there and found that acting was easy for her?
“No, I went and couldn’t wait for it to end. I already imagined the comments … Oh, you want to be an actor, but are you going? Instead I was caught immediately ».
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When did he realize he could do it?
«I remember the arrival of Caligari on the set. I didn’t think “I can do it”, but: if I don’t show now what I can do, I won’t have a chance anymore. There I said to my mother “now you don’t have to worry about anything anymore”, do you know the good revenge of those who come from a simple place? ».
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The most difficult character?
«Those furthest away from me. Stefano Cucchi in On my skin it was easy: I met many guys like him. It was difficult to do The first king
, a protolatin film shot for three months in the woods, or Devils, focused on finance, in English with a British accent ».
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The second series will be out shortly. The first was seen in 160 countries: what effect does it have?
“Absurd, but I had already lived with it Suburra, the Serie
… Make 80 million viewers, ask “did it go well?” and them: well it could have been better. There I started worrying about being understood by everyone around the world. I thought: Americans don’t know gypsies ».
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Shouldn’t the screenwriter worry about the universality of the Casamonica-like?
“But the actor can make something emotionally understandable that is not immediately understandable.”
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Who or what helped her to trust her talent?
“To feel the trust that others had in me. When Sollima chose me the bidet had broken, I had taken it apart, I was crossing the street with the bidet in my arms. The cell phone rings. It was him. I have a heart attack. Then he said to me: you will see that everything you do will be fine. I thought: if he trusts that much he will be right, he’s not stupid. Feeling trust eases, you start playing with a job that is made up of moments: you do thirty horrible takes, one splendid, the horrible one goes in the film and you win the David ».
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“Superheroes” is his first film all about love.
«It is about a man and a woman who, through love, destroy each other and then recompose themselves and then re-destruct and then rebuild themselves. I found us later Lucky, Jasmine Trinca, a sister ».
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Having children is a theme of the film: do you want any?
“In my head, I have a thought of family as if it already existed. I think desire is linked to the kind of love I feel ».
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Does your partner agree?
“Maybe more than me. Sometimes I have doubts because I don’t like what I see out there: I don’t understand if the act of selfishness is not giving birth to someone according to your judgment or putting it in knowing the ugly out there. Then, when we talk about it together, she takes me back to planet Earth. He tells me: you ask yourself too many questions. He’s right. “
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December 20, 2021 (change December 20, 2021 | 23:00)
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