(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 21 - "A mentor, a guide, I owe everything to him": Valeria Golino fondly remembers Citto Maselli to ANSA, the director who passed away today who in 1986 took her to the Venice Film Festival with Storia d' love, Silver Lion and for her very young the Volpi Cup.
Golino is on the set of her first series, The Art of Joy, for Sky which she has been directing for weeks and incredible coincidences come to mind.
"This series - he says in a break from the set - The art of joy is taken from a work by Goliarda Sapienza who was Citto's partner for 18 years. The protagonist - with Jasmine Trinca and Guido Caprino, ed - a young actress, Tecla Insolia who looks like me at the time of Love Story and I try to inculcate everything I know in her,
with generosity just like he did with me knowing that Tecla has a prodigious talent ahead of me.
And today I'm the age he was when he directed me as a little girl, who had only made one film before, Little Fires with Peter Del Monte, who also passed away.
The fact - Golino continues - that he thought I had talent gave me strength and pride, the perception of him made me stronger ".
For Storia d'amore, Golino, a beginner (just 19 years old), was chosen by Maselli, "who then acted as my mentor, made me grow not only professionally but in everything, showed me the way, made it clear that this job is done of choices and not just by instinct. I remember that he taught me to walk like the character, he made me visit the places where months later he would shoot, I had the good fortune in my early youth to meet a man of culture, talent who was an extraordinary director of actors which is not very common."
And then Valeria Golino adds: "he had a very strong personality, he was also overbearing and had a bad temper, I'm sure now he would like me to say it,
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