A tenacious apprenticeship, an undisputed talent and now the turning point: everyone is crazy in America for Sabrina Impacciatore.
And there is insistent talk of Sanremo, hosted by Amadeus on Thursdays and/or Fridays (Chiara Ferragni will be on Tuesday and Saturday evenings and Francesca Fagnani 'the beast' on Wednesdays).
What changed the course of the career of the actress, born in 1968, discovered by none other than Gianni Boncompagni in the Cruciverbone of Domenica In 1990 where she already hinted at an original comic verve, was the award-winning series by Mike White, The White Lotus, second season filmed in Taormina and of which he is in the cast together with Simona Tabasco and Beatrice Grannò.
The seven episodes, broadcast in Italy exclusively on Sky, of one of the TV titles of the year with as many as 10 Emmys brought home in the first season, is a social satire from HBO.
For Impacciatore, who after TV (Non è la Rai and Macao among others) began in the cinema with Citto Maselli and Ettore Scola, having a special admirer in Gabriele Muccino (three films L'Ultimo Bacio, Baciami Ancora, A casa tutti Well),
Impacciatore plays Valentina, the passionate and ultra-perfectionist director of the luxury resort White Lotus Sicilia.
Why have Americans gone mad?
First of all for the popularity of the series: it has doubled the ratings compared to the first one, it has made the places where it was filmed so loved that the rooms of the San Domenico in Taormina are already sold out for 2023 and on the web the number of research for holidays in Sicily.
The three Italian actresses in the cast, on a promotional tour in the United States, ended up in the benevolent eye of the storm, signing agreements with American agent agencies but are hosted on Jimmy Kimmel's talk show (he is also the host of the 95/a night of the Oscars on March 12 for more) that made Sabrina Impacciatore make a boom, 20 minutes and she became a star: on TikTok #sabrinaimpacciatore goes over 5.5 million views, to give an example and its interlayer ' so'
Sympathetic, empathetic, ironic, spontaneous, the actress was simply herself therefore overwhelming.
And on social networks, her colleagues have peeled their hands for her: from Gabriele Muccino to Stefano Fresi, from Tiziano Ferro to Cristiana Capotondi, from Claudia Gerini to Paola Turci, all complimenting her, proud of how an Italian has conquered the audience late night tv.
"An unforgettable evening. I feel grateful to this incredible man", she commented who in the meantime also spoke at the summit on the power of women, The Wrap's Power Women Summit in Hollywood.
From Jimmy Kimmel he told of how a rogue plays himself, pushed by director Mike White to be of an aggressiveness very distant from his personality and precisely this 'unease' of his made his interpretation in The White Lotus relevant.
"And to think that I'm a long-time actress who doesn't act but always lives the characters she plays: I've done these things in other Italian films too. Since 2000! At this point, one of the questions is being asked," she said in a bittersweet interview with La Stampa in which from Cinderella he hopes not to return to the pumpkin.
And she spoke of prejudices "my television origins, my less canonical beauty... But now, all of a sudden, I've become good and beautiful, for the whole world. But here too: what is beauty for an actress? It's her soul, not the modeling look."
