INTERVIEW
Fabio Massa Actor, screenwriter and director
INTERVIEW BY SUSANNA CASUBOLO
H
ow did your artistic journey begun, already from a small dream of doing the actor?
Sincerely as a child I was taken from other passions : I have been swimming at a professional level, I was a national back-style vice field, then boxing, then I played the guitar. Everything was born by chance when delivering pizzas in my hometown, Castellamare di Stabia, I had the opportunity to make my first audition with a great director, Aurelio Grimaldi, who led me to the achievement of an important top, that is mine First thirty second courses spoken in the film “Rosa Funzeca”. The film is the rematiment of “Mamma Roma” made in a Neapolitan key with excellent actors: Carlo Giuffrè, Ida di Benedetto, Primo Reggiani, Ennio Fantastichini. I’ll will tell you an anecdote: they call me because there was a team role to play for one of the co-coarrots, so the director wanted to take a path along with all the boys, to choose the most suitable one. But I was taken by a commitment, there was a school trip, and I really liked a girl from another class on which I had so much fantasized, so I prefered to go on the trip. Upon return, the director he had already chosen the player and I also risked being right inside the film, then I tried to make it with all myself and chose me for that little role: my first thirty seconds in a movie. There I discovered the beauty of the camera, they still turned into film, that noise so intense, and also the beauty of the industrial machine that moved, was a climate which I liked and hoped for my future and so... luckily, it happened .
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I’M ITALIAN - SPRING - 2022
Photos by Alessio Chiariglione
