Checco Zalone super guest in Sanremo: the Apulian actor and director, long in the wishlist of the artistic director and conductor Amadeus, has dissolved his reservations and will be at Ariston in one of the five evenings.
And who knows if he doesn't dedicate one of his ironic and irreverent songs to the Festival that are popular on his social channels and on YouTube.
"Amadeus, have you finished paying the mortgage on the house? Did you buy a house for your son? Then you will no longer work at full Telelombardia", ironized Zalone in the report on Tg1 which documented the signing of the contract.
Among the latest catchphrases created by the comedian, La vacinada, launched last spring and sung in macaronic Spanish, paired with Helen Mirren, to make fun of fears and hopes related to the vaccine. A year earlier, the desire to exorcise the pandemic had already been a source of inspiration for another song, Herd immunity will arrive, in which Zalone acted together with Virginia Raffaele. Record manager of Italian cinema with a haul of more than 220 million euros raised with his films (Cado dalle stelle, Che bella giorno, Sole a catinelle, Quo vado? E Tolo Tolo), Zalone - born Luca Medici, born in Bari in 1977 - in his sketches he often made fun of his participation in the festival and the alleged door in the face received by Pippo Baudo. In Sanremo it seemed very close already in 2019,but when he denied his presence ("I don't have the courage to go to the Ariston, it's a very difficult stage"), also because - he explained - about to leave for Kenya, where Tolo Tolo would film. His first film as a director, released in 1200 screens on New Year's Eve 2020, on the first day of programming reached € 8.7 million, the best debut ever in the history of Italian cinema, and at the last edition of the David he won the spectator's award and the statuette for the best original song with Immigrato. The video, with Zalone struggling with an immigrant who during the day 'heels' him in various situations to steal a few coins, had aroused applause and controversy: after all, the comedian has always mocked politically correct and ridiculed defects. ofaverage Italian with his deliberately mediocre and superficial alter ego.
Little inclined to be on TV - recently one of his participation in Che tempo che fa and Viva RaiPlay, Fiorello's guest - the comedian will find again at the Ariston Amadeus with whom he conducted the musical quiz Canta on Italia 1 in 2007-2008 and win. With the Zalone hit, Amadeus and his team work on fine-tuning the regular cast and other guests. The attention remains focused on Fiorello, who has left the boxes of the Sanremo week free in the calendar of the theater tour: the hope is that he will return to the festival, perhaps for the final. In the meantime, the organizational machine is in full swing, albeit with the utmost attention to the Covid emergency: with super green pass and frequent tampons for all professionals, the obligation to wear an Ffp2 mask except on live video;diversified accesses and paths for cast, artists, orchestras and crowded roofs for each area, even during rehearsals, Rai is working to secure the Ariston, updating the stringent health protocol already applied last year based on the new indications of the government and the need to face the Omicron nightmare. Liguria has remained yellow at the moment, but further restrictions cannot be ruled out. And the unknown of capacity in the Ariston room remains: the surge in infections could impose a reduction in attendance in cinemas and theaters, which can now be 100% occupied.updating the stringent health protocol already applied last year based on new government indications and the need to face the Omicron nightmare. Liguria has remained yellow at the moment, but further restrictions cannot be ruled out. And the unknown of capacity in the Ariston room remains: the surge in infections could impose a reduction in attendance in cinemas and theaters, which can now be 100% occupied.updating the stringent health protocol already applied last year based on new government indications and the need to face the Omicron nightmare. Liguria has remained yellow at the moment, but further restrictions cannot be ruled out. And the unknown of capacity in the Ariston room remains: the surge in infections could impose a reduction in attendance in cinemas and theaters, which can now be 100% occupied.which can now be 100% occupied.which can now be 100% occupied.