“I put Mandra on you, just today?” – Corriere.it

«I pòssino Mandra ‘, only today?». Enrico Montesano chose bitter irony to remember Gigi Proietti on Facebook, who passed away at the age of 80 on her birthday. “This death-birthday coincidence is really absurd, if it were not true it would be a theatrical blow. Or, to say it of Armandino Felici called er Pomata, a mandrakata ». The actor in an interview withAnsa Gigi Proietti recalled: “” I’m happy to die but I’m sorry, I’m sorry to die but I’m happy “: here is Gigi Proietti in my opinion today would have responded with the Ettore Petrolini song that he had made even more famous. It has gone not very well, but very well. And I think he would have laughed, he would have brought out his ironic verve, his Roman spirit and would have responded like that.

“Gigi invented many things and so did I.”

Both Romans, less than 4 years old, Montesano and Proietti were united by a passion for theater and shared a film that after more than 40 years is still an absolute cult: Horse fever by Steno. «It may seem irreverent but we have to deal with death even if we reject it, but Gigi does not die for all of us, a person like that with that exceptional talent at the height of his humanity does not really go away. I imagine he would have said, or rather, invented a joke on the spot to make us laugh. On Sunday night thanks to Rai Movie we saw again for the hundredth time Horse fever, my son Marco Valerio has won, we all know it by heart and we laugh again, it was our affectionate way of celebrating 80 years that unfortunately cannot celebrate today ». It is difficult to explain a film with such tremendous success: “Horse fever It is not a movie but a miracle of alchemy, everything is perfect from the direction to the sets through the costumes to the music. Gigi invented many things and so did I. On the set there was constant mutual laughter, it was difficult to shoot, to be serious. And the Roman world? «Today a piece of Romanism disappears. Like Alberto Sordi, Gigi Proietti was a king of Rome ».