"It has a title that seems like a premonition, 'Live and let live'. But hopefully the light will return, even if the anguish today risks making us skid. It is a series full of secrets, suspense, with an almost noir point thriller, we laugh, we are moved, we ask ourselves questions. My character, Laura, fifty years brazenly, holds a secret that when discovered will make the family explode and put everyone in crisis. But every crisis is an opportunity to start again ". Elena Sofia Ricci, in a telephone conversation with ANSA, talks about the new series, Live and let live, by BiBi Film for Rai Fiction, produced by Angelo Barbagallo, broadcast on Rai1 from Thursday 23 April in 6 prime evenings.
David di Donatello as best leading actress for Loro di Paolo Sorrentino, the actress confirms her transversality between cinema and TV. It is a family drama born from an idea of the film director Pappi Corsicato who ventures for the first time behind the camera of a TV series, setting in his Naples the events of the Ruggero family, composed of a mother with her three children , the 23-year-old Jade and the twins of 17 Nina and Giovanni.
"Laura - says the actress - is a pragmatic woman who has to get busy." A life, his, apparently normal, until the day of the death of her husband: of a stop with the ship in Tenerife, Renato Ruggero (Antonio Gerardi) remains involved in a fire. And this is how women, out of nowhere, create a new job, which transforms into a real female enterprise ("begins to deal with street food around Naples, giving other women the opportunity to emancipate and become autonomous" ), while its unsuspected past realigns itself with its present. His great love never lived, a charming man, involved in unclean business, appears to upset the fragile balance, bringing back to Laura's life love, distrust, endangering her and her children. In the cast Iaia Forte, Silvia Mazzieri, Carlotta Antonelli, Bianca Nappi, Giampiero de Concilio, with Massimo Ghini in the role of Tony. While to interpret Laura young is the daughter of Elena Sofia Ricci, Emma Quartullo, had by the actor and director Pino (the actress has been married since 2003 with the composer and conductor Stefano Mainetti from whom Maria had the second daughter) . "Emma has a degree in directing from the Dams and is what she would like to do, like her uncle Gabriele Mainetti (they called him Jeeg Robot), Stefano's grandson. After wanting to audition, after a tryout, Pappi Corsicato, who told her ' how to get into the character, you hit it. "
But how is Elena experiencing this quarantine period? "Like everyone, I confess that lately the discomfort is taking over, not so much for me who I consider myself a privileged one, but for those many, too many people who work in the world of entertainment. The invisibles. Even looking to the after, we are preparing for phase two, to return to normal, but what will become of all that has been lost on the street? I speak with the utmost respect for the families of all the victims and for the thousands of sick people of this pandemic that has come like a tsunami, catching unprepared not only us, but many countries in the world. I don't want to make a qualunquista speech: if I look at our category (and I have more medical friends than actors), thousands of workers, lighting, sound technicians, editors, make-up artists, toolmakers , set designers, there is a world that people ignore exist behind every project and that risks remaining still, starving, without a pension. When will we return to the sets and under what conditions and how? obviously - he underlines - everyone speaks for his category, the same goes for hundreds of others, for millions of people at risk of poverty. We had to leave on March 20 with the filming of Che Dio helps us 6, but everything is still, there are colleagues who hoped to pay us the rent ".
In this series the actress also has passionate scenes, even if shot elegantly, not exactly in her DNA. "Very true - he replies - they are the ones that embarrass me the most, because I am by nature a very modest person. Do you think that with Claudio Amendola when we shot the Cesaroni we fell asleep dressed in bed between a clapperboard and the other, but we are brother and sister. With Massimo Ghin ... we have known each other for a lifetime. Anyway Pappi - he jokes - is the second Neapolitan who cares, after Paolo Sorrentino. There was a scene that I was ashamed to shoot and he: 'Elena I let everyone out of the room, in the dark there is only you, serene ". Too bad it was with a large window and outside it was full of people. I was practically in the shop window in Amsterdam. When he stopped, a technician 'A Sofi' approached, but you know that compared to 'these little girls there is no competition, you are' in a fairy tale '. The wonder of those who accompany us ... ".