(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 10 - "Here lies Toni Servillo, Toni ateatroServillo al cinema": the ironic joke is by the same actor who thus defines his dualism while celebrating thirty years of cinema in a career, as he himself defines it, "dateatrante militant".
Covid has made him commit more in recent years to cinema ("before I only accepted it in the summer, in the winter I was on tour"), three films ready to be released, "but next year I will return to the theater. Al Piccolo di Milano and then Naples ", he told Marateale a few days ago when he was interviewed by the director of the Venice Film Festival AlbertoBarbera.
His passion is the stage but at the cinema he has gained a lot of satisfaction and today Servillo, 63 years old from Afragola (Na), is one of the most charismatic Italian actors, with dozens of awards.
"I started making films quite late - he admits - I believed that my business would end with the theater that I never abandoned".
Servillo worked with Bellocchio, Garrone but they are two huge partnerships: with Mario Martone and Paolo Sorrentino, well seifilm with each.
"Before being a great image maker, Paolo is a writer, an extraordinary dialogue writer. Paolo - he reveals - practices writing every day, always using the equipment to write wherever he is. Mario, on the other hand, is one who makes places speak eloquently and brilliantly. in which he plays the characters, he is an extraordinary 'decorateur', in him set designer and director are integrated. With Mario at the theater we have been working together since we were 18 years old, he is my brother, while Paolo has always considered me his older brother. I know their projects always from initial phase, but I don't have an authorial role because I believe that cinema belongs to directors,
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