A magical year for Luisa Ranieri with the return of Lolita Lobosco, the Rai series (broadcast on Rai1 from 4 March with the third season), the long-awaited new film by Paolo Sorrentino provisional title Partenope and the surprise of Modì directed by Johnny Depp .
The actress talks about herself in “Luisa Ranieri – Occhi che sa parlare”, broadcast on Monday 4 March at 9.00 pm on Sky TG24 (9 March at 12.00 pm on Sky Arte and always available On Demand) in the new episode of “Stories”, the series of interviews with the main performers of the Sky TG24 show.
Guest of the deputy director of the newspaper Omar Schillaci talks about his return to TV with the third season of 'The investigations of Lolita Lobosco', in which he plays an assistant police commissioner on duty at the flying squad of the Bari police station, which "is something that amuses me a lot and that I really do with love."
A character who is a symbol of female redemption in a man's world, because "it takes more effort, you have to demonstrate that you have more determination, more brains, more ability than a man, because basically we have been excluded for too long".
And then the cinema with a new film together with Paolo Sorrentino and, surprisingly, a part in Johnny Depp's next project.
She starts from Naples, the historic center, where she was born and raised in a family "dominated by women" and where she spent her childhood.
“I was a little girl, very shy, silent.
I kept to myself, let's say", shyness which did not prevent her from breaking into the world of entertainment, but which always accompanied her in auditions and from her first appearances, such as in 'The Prince and the Pirate' by Leonardo Pieraccioni, her debut on the big screen.
“It occurs to me that I was very, very shy and so that day, being in costume was something that embarrassed me a lot.”
Speaking of her auditions, the one of her with Paolo Sorrentino for It was the hand of God remains indelible in her memory, because "I went there thinking 'he'll never take me anyway' and I had a good audition because there were no expectations.
With Paolo it was perhaps the most beautiful professional meeting of my life.
He is a special director and with him my rebirth began."
Many collaborations with great directors, such as with Ferzan Özpetek, “another important meeting in my life.
It's the third film I've made with him – he says speaking of 'New Olympus' – I had a lot of fun writing the character of Tweety with him.
A role, among other things, that happened to her thanks to a suggestion from Mina herself who, after having read her script, as an admirer of her, reported it to Özpetek.
“She called me and said 'I have a small role, but I need someone less flashy than you.
But I trust what Mina tells me, so let's work on it, see what we can come up with.'
And from there he was born”.
She remembers many sets with love, one above all perhaps, that of 'Cefalonia', the miniseries directed by Riccardo Milani, where she met her husband Luca Zingaretti.
A story that has seen them together for almost twenty years, but the spark didn't strike immediately, at least for her, because "I liked him too.
But I don't like relationships born on sets.
I don't like chatter, so it's something I've always avoided.
Then in the film I fell in love with this soldier, he was a handsome, charming soldier and therefore I wanted that emotional distance to then be able to evaluate whether I really liked him."
In addition to the character of Lolita Lobosco on TV we will soon see her at the cinema again with Paolo Sorrentino for a new film, but above all in another challenge, perhaps a little unexpected, "this year I received a hilarious phone call on August 20th, I was on holiday with my family and my French agent called me.
He tells me 'Johnny Depp makes a film and offers you a role' and I say no, I don't have time to audition because now I'm starting with Lolita, then I'm doing Sorrentino... 'You don't have to audition, he offers you a role' and so I did it.
But I didn't really understand where she noticed me - she's still surprised - I think in Sorrentino's film because during a chat we had when we talked about the character she told me 'you were very good in Paolo's film'”.
After a youth in which she often felt 'disunited' (quotation of a now cult phrase that Sorrentino autobiographically has Antonio Capuano say to the young protagonist Fabietto Schisa) “I can say that after a long work, today I love myself.
And I also feel tenderness for my limits and fragilities.
I have learned to love myself and I believe that it is something that is acquired with age with security, perhaps, in the results achieved".
Mistakes not to be repeated?
“I have almost made it a reason for my life, I think that mistakes are as useful as the right things.
If you don't make mistakes you don't know who you are.
The mistake is also used to measure yourself, to understand how you react when faced with wrong things.
I could have avoided some of them, but I would do them all again because they helped me" and a good resolution for the future, "I would like to be more free".
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