(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 13 - He no longer wants to mediate, because in life he has already given and now he goes on his way saying what he thinks, without compromise.
Her smiles are a gift that she offers in small doses, and she keeps the headphones in her ears, because music allows her to think without hearing the din of the world.
Paola Cortellesi is ready to win the hearts of the public in the role of Petra Delicato, the tough but fragile detective at the center of "Petra", the new Sky Original production that will debut on September 14 and will be broadcast for four episodes every Monday at 9.15 pm on SkyCinema Uno .
Inspired by the bestselling novels of Alicia Giménez-Bartlett and produced by Sky with Cattleya in association with Bartlebyfilm, the crime series is directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi, for the first time engaged in a TV production, and is set in Genoa, instead of Barcelona (chosen city by the writer). In fact, the port city is the scene of the complex investigations that Petra, furniture inspector, carries out together with her deputy Antonio Monte (played by Andrea Pennacchi), an old-fashioned inspector with a good heart. "Petra is distant from me but she is nice, because that way it is easier to find a way to interpret her. Her character made me enter a parallel reality that I wanted to live: I would like to spend a day like her, to see how she is", he says. ANSA the actress, who with Petra meets once again (after Maria Montessori and Nilde Iotti) the role of a strong woman. "Petra and I have only irony in common, and to get into the character I did a lot of rehearsals, trying to imagine her in various situations to capture more nuances. I am completely entrusted to Maria Sole, sometimes we even came to think the same things", she explains Cortellesi, making her debut in a crime series, "I love Petra's being free: every day she chooses to be what she is, even if it has consequences". (HANDLE).