Very Good Looking Italian Actors – Crossover Raoul Bova

So what are you Raoul Bova, serious or just another pretty face?

You’re a husband and father of three. You were a champion swimmer. You’ve been appointed along with Canadian singer Céline Dion, Filipino singer Lea Salonga and American actress Susan Sarandon, as Goodwill Ambassadors to help in the global fight against hunger.

And you’re hot. Sorry, I don’t know what you want me to say.

A hit in Italy (La Finestra di Fronte ) and in America (Under the Tuscan Sun), Raoul Bova is an official crossover from Italian cinema to Hollywood. Is that important? C’mon, you know I don’t think so.

Roaul said something really interesting about the difference between Hollywood and the Italian film industry: “Hollywood is the center of the cinema and you can find a lot of ways to improve yourself as an actor. I mean, action movies, romantic movies, a comedy and sometimes in Italy… I’m not saying I’m a good-looking guy, but sometimes the good-looking guys don’t have a very easy life in Italy because they don’t write a lot of roles for the good-looking guys.”

Wow, really? I’ll have to think about that. I can think of a few good looking Italian actors, like:

Riccardo Scamarcio

or how about

Silvio Muccino

Those guys seem to do OK. But maybe not Hollywood OK. I’m sure Raoul is making more money in Hollywood and I am certainly the last person to tell someone that they shouldn’t take the opportunity to make money. But if he’s trying to say that there is no opportunity for him in Italy, I don’t believe it. Hollywood is HOLLYWOOD, just the same. And who doesn’t want to be a Hollywood movie star? (Just ask all those reality tv show personalities). But does Bova mind Hollywood making him an Italian strereotype? Bova said of his “Under the Tuscan Sun” role: “I think it’s a stereotype. It’s an Italian stereotype to think American women say that, and there is a stereotype that we Italian men say that. Of course, we are passionate. We have passion and we can say something very romantic and sweet words to the women because we like to play with the women, to play with the words, to have fun, and to give the women confidence. It’s our culture. But, it sounds to me a little bit too much. So, it’s a comedy and in a comedy it turns in, like it’s a joke.”

A joke – yeah, that’s what I’ve been saying. I’d rather see Raoul Bova in an Italian movie than an American one because Hollywood doesn’t really know what to do with him.

Oh dear. I was just about to say something really inappropriate like, “I’d know what to do with him”, but I’m almost old enough to be his mother. I’d have to have been a really, really young teenage mother, so maybe it’s OK.

PS – in case you were wondering, it’s true that I’m using the word “sexy” in the title to attract readers – it seems to work.