Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room, We Have a Pope) is getting ready to release his newest, Mia Madre (My Mother) with my favorite actress Margherita Buy, and the Cohen Brothers’ favorite Italian-American, John Turturro. In the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera’s interview with Turturro, he talks of his love of Italy, the country in which his parents were born.
“I’ve always been tied to Italy, it’s the land of my parents; my mother was born in Sicily and my father in Puglia. In Brooklyn and Queens, I grew up listing to the languages of so many immigrants all around me. And since I have an Italian passport, the idea of acting in ‘Mia Madre’ with Nanni Moretti made me really happy.”
“There’s an article in the New York TImes talking about all of the artistic heirs to Woody Allen: Nanni Moretti would be his nephew”, said the actor. “I have known Nanni for twenty years and I have loved his films. He is a director that is very demanding but stimulating, the script was beautiful and it was wonderful to work with Margherita Buy.”
I Love Italian Everything 