Beautiful, talented, and really funny, Bianca Nappi is becoming the “go to” girl for cutting edge directors.
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She’s making her mark in big way in films like Short Skin (I Dolori Del Giovane Edo) and Pecore in Erba, but veteran directors like Ferzan Ozpetek already know what Bianca Nappi can do. She says she feels privileged to have appeared in films like Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannons) and Magnifica Presenza (Magnificent Haunting), but that in the end there’s not a whole lot of difference working with a less experienced director.
“A lot depends on their ideas”, says Nappi, “and you don’t need experience to have clear ideas.”
In the case of Pecore In Erba , the absolutely delightful new farce that premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival, “Alberto (Caviglia, the director) was very clear about what he wanted and he was very easy to follow.”
In Pecore in Erba, Nappi plays the adoring sister of a famous, young anti-semite (it’s a comedy, you heard me, it’s a hilarious lampoon of religious intolerance). She’s an absolute ironic genius, walking that fine line between zany and realistic, a classic “straight-man” in the midst of the outrageous satire.
“When we started shooting Pecore in Erba I was excited and very focused about my character because we all knew it would be a complex work. The whole movie is in fact based on a delicate balance between satire and reality, an interesting challenge! Honestly I knew in my heart it could become a big deal, but until it was out at the Venice Festival, you never know..”
Rather than a big deal at Venice, Pecore in Erba was a HUGE deal, met with enormous laughter and applause, and has just opened in Italian theaters.
And lucky for us, Nappi’s film Short Skin is coming soon to New York City. From director Duccio Chiarini, Nappi jumps nimbly from one delicate topic (anti-semitism in Pecore in Erba), to another, playing the mother of a boy with a deformed penis in Short Skin.
“I think that the cinema produced by a country respects its social reality, economy and culture, and in the last five or six years there has been a rebirth in Italy, above all with directors and auteurs that are the true spirit of cinema, in my opinion,” says Nappi. “Maybe the economic crisis that Italy has gone through and is going through has served to eliminate the superfluous and made us return to our origins, that is to say making films that are more sincere and more original. We actors can’t do anything but follow this current and help the directors realize their visions.
Because we Americans are obsessed with beautiful celebrities like Bianca Nappi, I asked her to fill me in on her personal life; hot boyfriend? Hot husband? Kids? Pets? Crazy hobbies?
“Yes, I have a boyfriend”, says Nappi, “and we’ve been living together for five years. We have a dog, an adorable Jack Russell Terrier.”
“When I’m not working I love playing sports, and because I eat a lot a need the gym! Obviously I love going to the movies, and I spend some time writing for a website called Ladyblitz.it, my weekly horoscope; it’s quite successful and very funny for me to write.
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