The burning declarations of Pierfrancesco Favino - competing at the Venice Film Festival with two titles: "Comandante" by Edoardo De Angelis and "Adagio" by Stefano Sollima - according to which the practice of the majors is inappropriate Hollywood fans to have American actors interpret stories and characters from other countries. Reference to Michael Mann's "Ferrari" - also in competition at the Festival - which sees Adam Driver in the role of the charismatic entrepreneur from Modena.
During the preview of "Bastarden" in which he stars, the Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen - recently Jürgen Voller in "Indiana Jones and the Quadrant of Destiny" - underlined the weight that still today covers dubbing in films within of the international market. «I would make a premise: if France, Germany, Italy and Spain stopped dubbing films in all languages, this could be an important element in tackling the problem. But as long as they continue to dub, who cares what language, culture, origin? I never understood why you do this thing, crazy for me. We saw Tom Cruise play a Nazi officer with a slight German accent and then go back to being a full-blown American from there on out. You can do it in this type of film, in others it makes them less believable».
Monica Guerritore also wanted to take part in such a heated and prolific confrontation, called on 5 September to receive the prize at the "Woman in Cinema Award". After announcing the start of filming for the biopic on Anna Magnani, the actress sided with her colleague, also suggesting for our actors the importance of iconic roles and radically siding against operations on the same line as "Ferrari" and “House of Gucci”: «We defend Italian cinema, its protagonists, the profession of the actor. We must not generalize, but there are characters with such a definite identity that only by recreating it can they be made universal, which is why I fully agree with Pierfrancesco Favino. I too have been told that if I had entrusted the role of Magnani to an American star I would have conquered the world market, but Magnani can only be played by an Italian actress. We are our language, our gestures, our shared memory, our excesses and our resistance to adversity, our energy. All of this tells us, not just a scenography».
John Scanu
