Job Covatta in a 30-year career he has brought his comedy to theatre, cinema and television, confirming that talent and irony can get along perfectly. With The moved traveller e Gives Sapiens it has filled up in all Italian theaters and next year it will also arrive in Milan.
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Are you also writing for the cinema?
«Yes, it will be a bizarre story, I’m finishing some passages. I love this kind of cinema which belongs to science fiction, there is always a line of suspension from reality».
I find it very funny…
“Sure, I’m talking about superheroes. Heroes to whom the years pass. There will be three of us: Francesco Paolantoni, Enzo Iacchetti and me, a team that wins doesn’t change. Let’s take Superman as an example: he was born before me and will now be over 90 years old. Try to save someone, but joint pain comes to everyone, even him. Do you remember the Invisible Woman? She now has Alzheimer’s and Spider-Man is unfortunately plagued by the prostate. This is the world of old age told by our superheroes ».
He has always been original and sarcastic. And Maurizio Costanzo who was able to recognize who she had talent of her, invited her to the Costanzo Show. Thus began her adventure?
«Yes, he was the one who threw me and I owe him everything. I was still little known, but he made me go to an episode of his program. He gave me the opportunity to speak freely and between jokes and applause from the audience, I understood that he was starting my real career ».
Costanzo had many friends, his living room at the Parioli theater was always packed with famous people. What do you remember in particular?
“A call. I was in his dressing room, we laughed together, he too knew how to be ironic. At one point the phone rang and Costanzo replied: “Hi Carlo Azeglio, how are you?”. I thought: but is that Carlo Azeglio over there, in short, the one from the Quirinale? But I said nothing. And he did the same thing. I met characters I would never have imagined. Maurizio and I spent 20 years in the same theatre: he with the Show, I with the theatrical comedies. He was unique, very correct and extraordinary, I will never forget him ».
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A white in black it is the book dedicated to her. Edited by Claudio Miani with Gianlorenzo Masedu (in collaboration with AmrefHealth Africa and published by Officine Out Out), what is it about?
«It is a journey to discover a part of the world and my career. All men are equal, said God, high and low, but for small and poor blacks… it will be very hard».
Born in Puglia, raised in La Maddalena: how do you consider yourself?
«The character is Sardinian, I grew up in La Maddalena, my culture is Neapolitan».
Is it true or false that years ago he was excommunicated from the Church?
“True, but only because I wrote the book Job’s word. It’s in Calabria that they excommunicated me, but…”.
But what?
«I have sold many copies…».
The logic of this book?
“To tell the facts in a positive way. Our religion is not light-hearted, punishments prevail».
Give me an example.
«In Naples there is a church that venerates Saint Lucia and you can touch her eyes, resting on a silver saucer. Many people pass by, faithful who pray passionately and others who go out of curiosity and who often don’t even have clean hands. Do you know how it ended? That the next day all of Naples had conjunctivitis ».
Was he hoping to get away without excommunication!?
«But at the beginning I didn’t even believe it because we always played jokes with Iacchetti and Paoloantoni. In fact, when they called me on the phone and a gentleman introduced himself calling himself a Cardinal, I thought it was a lie. I ascertained that my adventure companions had nothing to do with it and I asked myself: but then it’s not true that they excommunicated me. He was a real cardinal who asked me for advice ».
What kind of advice?
“To reassure me. She immediately told me: I’m calling her because I need an intelligent comedian: can he help us out? I went to lunch with him and served us on the table was a priest. In the evening I had to work at the theater and when the curtain opened I saw a priest in the front row».
Is it superstitious?
«Naples has always confused religions a bit. Edoardo said: “Being superstitious is a symptom of ignorance, but not being so brings bad luck”».
How did it go for her?
“Well. When we were kids at school there were the good looking ones and the less attractive ones who needed to get noticed by finding other ways. I tried with sympathy, jokes and comedy. I’ve never had to complain.”
Donna Sapiens is one of her shows that showcased the value of female intelligence. What do you think of women in power?
«The women are extraordinary, they have a great mental structure and only three days of hormonal excesses. Men, on the other hand, are talkative and have testosterone that lasts 30 days. It is obvious that losers come out».
