Fabio Massa Actor,

Screenwriter And Director

INTERVIEW BY SUSANNA CASUBOLO

How 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 .

Fabio Massa is actor, screenwriter and director, class 1984, whenever carried out a project, receives an excellent positive feedback from the press and the public. His cinematographic debut took place with a role in the “Rosa Funzeca’, film presented out of competition at the 59th Venice Film Festival in 2002. Since then , there were participations in television series as “Un posto al sole” , “La squadra 4” and roles in films like “Io non ci casco” and “Esterno notte” who saw him alongside great actors like Mariagrazia Cucinotta, Maurizio Casagrande, Ornella Muti and Ricky Tognazzi. He has experienced as an actor, director and author in film as “Aeffetto domino” and “Mai per sempre”. We met to get to know him better and talk about his projects that always face thematics with important and profound meaning. It has dedicated attention to us and showed himself in an authentic way and very Deep, with an open smile and the attentive gaze, of those who go far.

As an actor, did you have a role model to inspire you?

I’ve always thought about one thing, which led me to be who I am for better or for worse, I don’t think you need to have myths. Everyone has to look for the interpretative key within himself, he can be inspired by attitudes or techniques, but as regards the artistic contribution to a character, it must be sought in what is his own imagination, aided by the directions of the director. This is why it is difficult when I act for myself, it means finding an agreement between the actor and the director in me, not an easy challenge but certainly beautiful. There are many actors to whom I look with admiration, with whom I would like to share the set one day, but as inspiration I prefer to look inside myself.

Of the different roles you played and not directed which one are you most fond of?

I really liked a role I played in “La Squadra”, Luca Venturiello, a street kid who was injured in the leg in a fight, taken to the hospital and had to decide whether or not to say who it was or why it happened. Since I followed “The Team” a lot at the time, seeing myself involved in filming made me strange and at the same time did me a lot of good, that character was my initiation into television and series. Another character that I really like is Davide from “Io non ci casco” directed by Pasquale Falcone, it was my first important film, he gave me the opportunity to get to know a much broader and more professional context in which I found myself alongside big names such as Cucinotta, Muti, Casagrande. I can say that every character I’ve played has given me the opportunity to increase my professional level, sometimes small steps, sometimes bigger, but each one has given me the opportunity to be who I am now, and in perspective what I will be tomorrow. .

Is there a director you have always dreamed of working with?

A world opens up here! There are too many that I’d like to collaborate with and I’d like to learn from! Obviously I would like to be directed by masters such as Garrone, Sorrentino, Castellitto but also for example by Ligabue, because I like the way in which he transfers his beautiful musical baggage into cinematic representation. Naming becomes too limiting, trying to do justice to all my wishes! Ozpetec is another for example, or there are people of the world television series, important series, Cupellini, Love ... As for the American world, I would really do the impossible to be directed by Sean Penn and Clint Eastwood, there will probably remain desires but life teaches us not to stop dreaming.