At the age of five, Giorgio Cantarini rolled Life is beautiful by Roberto Benigni. At eight, he played the role of Rusell Crowe's son in Gladiator of Ridley Scott. Two films, eight Oscars in the curriculum. That child grew up in Montesiascone, province of Viterbo, 115 kilometers north of Rome, in a house with corral and chickens, with a psychiatrist father, a matron mother, two smaller sisters and a stage to play. Today he is a 27 year old man about to leave Italy.

What did he do during these years? Until he was 18, he wanted to be a footballer. The cinema was something I liked, but it could have ended up perfectly on a pitch. After high school, following the advice of Benigni, with whom I have always been in contact and who still invites me to the premieres or to have an ice cream, I tried to enter the Experimental Center of Cinematography of Rome. They took me and I got my diploma in 2014. What made him change his mind? Cinema was, for me, a passion, but only as a spectator. In the last year of high school, I was asked, for the Greek subject, a free representation. I decided to shoot a short. It was my only 10 in Greek and it made me think that cinema was an environment in which I felt good. One imagines that the child of 'Life is beautiful' grows, graduates as an actor and they call him from everywhere. It has not been exactly. In the casting, the directors knew me, but they had kept my image as a child. And I try to avoid the mainstream and just introduced me to quality jobs. I had a small role in Lamborghini, the Legend of Bobby Moresco, with Antonio Banderas and Alec Baldwin. The tape is in the postproduction stage. It was nice to roll big again. In addition, I took to the theater The Harold Pinter Mountaineer with my friend Miguel Ángel Gobbo Díaz. Afterwards, I starred in the Rai Aus-Adopt a student series and, in April, in Berlin, the pilot chapter of a series, Flatmates, which looks a lot like me. What does it look like? In that incarnate series to an Italian painter who moves there, but, to get ahead, he acts as a rider and has to find an apartment to share. Live strange situations, because it always falls in apartments only for vegans, only for gays or only for sexually receptive people ... The story reflects the precariousness of my generation and reflects to myself that, next September, I will move to New York, in search of fortune. Do you dream of Hollywood? Two years ago, I studied for a month at the New York Film Academy and found myself very comfortable. I already have contacts with a producer and an American director, with whom, in Berlin, I played a short film inspired by the Divine Comedy. My dream is to work in Italy, on all continents and in all countries. For example, I feel that France is a page that I have not yet closed, although I spent 2015 in Paris, I studied the language and made myself known a little. Why in Paris? I accompanied my girlfriend there, who was studying at the Conservatory National Superior of Dramatic Art. Her name is Marial Bajma-Riva and she is an extraordinary Italian actress, who has just won the award as best young performer of classical works at the Greek Theater in Syracuse.When you were interviewed as a child and asked about her girlfriends, you replied that she had too many It was a small and innocent Don Juan. Now, I appreciate the important relationships. I have been with Marial for five years and I have also started writing scripts and directing. I shot two short films Le Reina de los Salones and a little fantasy with zero budget, while we were on vacation in Greece. It is about the story of a fisherman, who falls in love with an artist. As she is very shy, she fails in all her attempts to make herself noticed before her. Afterwards, she disappears and he looks for her everywhere. And when he returns to the pier, he finds her. I had been waiting for you all along. You are a romantic I love the magical spirit of life. When Enzo Biagi asked Benigni what he wanted, he responded by quoting Kant that "he had the starry sky above his head and the moral law in his my heart. ”I didn't remember that, but if I had to make a poetic definition of myself, I would probably approach that one.

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