Pierfrancesco Favino sports a ’70s mustache for director Ron Howard’s new movie, Rush, also starring Chris Helmsworth and Olivia Wilde. Favino will play Formula 1 racecar driver Clay Regazzoni in a story about Niki Lauda and the 1976 crash that almost killed him.
Favino just last week won the David di Donatello award for best supporting actor for his role as the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli in Romanzo di una Strage (story of a massacre). Rush isn’t his first English language film; he was Inspector Olivetti in Angels and Demons, Peppi ‘The Great Butterfly’ Grotta in Miracle at St. Anna, and General Glozelle in Prince Caspian (the Chronicles of Narnia).
Italian movie lovers know him from Cosavogliodipiù, Posti in Piedi in Paradiso, A.C.A.B (All Cops Are Bastards), and Saturno Opposto (Saturn in Opposition).
Rush will be in US theaters in 2013.
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