The legendary Zorro, Lieutenant Dan Taylor from Forrest Gump, Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter, but also Aramis from The Iron Mask. These are just some of the dozens of characters who have made the history of cinema interpreted by one of Italy's most important voice actors: Antonio Sanna .
Living today in Anticoli Corrado, a very small town in the Roman countryside with a long artistic tradition ("Pirandello wrote here 'The mountain giants'", he recalls), was born seventy-two years ago in Siligo and for forty, in addition to being an actor theatrical, he spends hours and hours closed in the dubbing rooms, headphones on his head and a microphone, to lend his voice to actors nominated for Academy Awards in iconic films.
Dad marshal of the Guardia di Finanza, it all started in Cagliari: he moved there at the age of ten and also attended university there. Medical School.
Why Medicine?
«I chose her before realizing that I actually liked being an actor much more. And in fact, instead of studying, I acted at the Cit, Center for theatrical initiative, with actors like Mario Faticoni, Tino Petilli, Franco Noè, Cesare Saliu. In 1974 we founded the Teatro di Sardegna cooperative. Then I moved to Rome, I struggled a lot before taking off».
Or?
“I had various jobs, including being a nurse in a small center for the elderly: my medical studies helped me get by. Gradually I resumed doing theater with various companies around Italy».
Why did he start dubbing?
«By chance, to plug the 'holes' in the theatre. In order not to sit still for whole months between one season and another, I launched myself with the first auditions».
The first important role?
«A very young Hugh Grant in Maurice, a 1987 film. It went well, the historic dubbing director Fede Arnaud liked it a lot. Yet I never dubbed him again, perhaps with the passage of time my voice no longer suited him ».
