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“A real man does what he wants, not what they must.” Our interview with Jo Champa, American actress of Italian origin, Calabrian wanting to be parochial, begins a sentence cult of “Games of Thrones” and not from his biography, that now everyone knows, by Ettore Scola and films with Bernardo Bertolucci in Sofia Coppola, with Hollywood and the passion for the cinema and for Italy. She, who has mixed fantasy and acting, working on body language, stopping him in the photographs of Helmut Newton – portraits of the spirit of the times, in black and white – these days is in Italy, in Maratea for an international film festival where will be the godmother and the star. “Today – says Jo – something has changed and creativity is released in television rather than cinema. I talk about HBO, Netflix, American networks that produce documentaries and TV series of great value. Their language and the quality of packaging exceeds, in many cases, that of the cinema, the traditional big screen. If I look at the series “Vikings” or “Games of Thrones”, the television series are wonderful, with a narrative writing, a script and a quality of photograph that up to thirty years ago on TV were unthinkable. “
means that the narrative productions for television today beat cinema?
“Me, I was a purist cinema, today I tell you that on the network, which I mentioned before, there is a way to develop creativity, to enrich the stories and experience, because you have more courage to do it. The sets, the tricks are important in the story in pictures, some movies will always exist as a language but there was a real revolution. “
It was predictable that change?
“I would have been able to anticipate certain changes, 15, 20 years ago, not because of the sorceress Champa but only because living in California, in the heart of this change of language and new technologies, these innovations breathed. The web font, today, the company is a true, another revolution. We take the reality, a genre that I love, a series like “Kardashian” not successful in television, in the US, but on social, Web, Twitter and Facebook are huge. Do you know who most watched Obama, how can media, to the point of getting the cover of Vogue. “
Andy Warhol would say “fifteen minutes of fame”, or is it something different?
“You see, once you had to be actors, knowing how to act, now just be people on social, even without talent, no matter. The important thing is to work. Then, you know, the social are easily manipulated through the media and the audience, the less educated, the simple people, it is. Unfortunately today the actress and the actor does not have to know how to act. This has also influenced the star system in Hollywood: the studios, for example, to choose the actors, they go to see how many millions of fans and subscribers. “
From the US to Italy, his is a nostalgic memory?
“Culturally Italy is wonderful, I love it, I want my son to discover, learn to know her, you love her. Then that Rome should have a mayor Roman, that’s another story. I, in front of my house in Trastevere, I shit and garbage. So you can not go on. A mayor should make sure that this does not happen. I am proud to be Italian, everybody love an italian girl, but this thing of dirt in Rome is indecent. I was recently in Paris and it is not. You see, I’m the first to love Italy, the United States, to my house, I cook only Italian. I love eggplant parmigiana, as does the Sofia Loren, and the pizza that prepares Maria Scicolone, sister. Italian food is unique. You’re vegan, vegan? No, problem, I’ll tomatoes and grilled eggplant. ” The interview is over, but after this declaration of love for Italy, our thoughts turn to the film “The Third Man”, where the protagonist Harry, played by Orson Welles, said: “In Italy under the Borgias, for thirty ‘years, have had murders, wars, terror and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. “
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