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«After a San Remo in these conditions I think I can do anything. This Festival is like swimming in fresh water with two ankle weights, whereas normally any show is like swimming in the sea, with salt water that supports you and fins that make you go fast ». Fiorello still moved among the waves of the Festival with the usual lightness, the irony of the joke, the elegance of the voice, despite the very complicated context starting from the empty audience, a contradiction for those who make a show.
Was it the hardest challenge of your life?
“Yes, the most difficult, as it is for all those who work because the country has been in difficulties for a year. It is a general situation, which also affects those of us who do this work. You try to go on stage to smile and make people smile, but I also have my daily anxieties. I think of my daughter, of all adolescents, and I suffer for them that in the most beautiful age many things are denied ».
Can you be happy on stage, even in a situation like this?
«It is valid for me but it is valid for those who do this work: as soon as you step on the stage, the magic takes hold of you so that at that moment you are there to do that particular thing. In those moments I am happy, cheerful. Then I go out and go to the dressing room, pick up the cell phone, call home, say hello to my mother, ask her if it went well, I have my insecurities … ».
If there had been another shoulder on stage besides Amadeus, perhaps the weight to be supported would have been lighter?
«I have many defects and few merits. One of my flaws is that I am self-centered, I like to be alone. My shoulder can only be my friend Amadeus, I couldn’t have another comedian by my side, otherwise it becomes a competition. That’s how I am, I always work alone. This Festival could only be done this way, with two friends running. Even the best comedian in the world in this situation would have had great difficulties: you have no reactions, you don’t know if it works, when you do the joke you feel a void. So I opted for a silly comedy, I enter the scene on purpose even when I’m not expected, change careers once the episode has started, decide on the spot, suddenly on the go. At home people right now need good humor, not wild comedy.
How were the first minutes on stage, those of the debut on Tuesday night?
“For a showman like me, the first two minutes were terrifying. I chose to go out singing just so as not to face the empty audience right away, but I will always remember the ending: the silence, just that recorded applause, even if it is low and not very intense. And now how do you do it here? I told myself. But then at night I got used to it and didn’t realize it anymore. Now, in my baggage of experience there is also something strange here, only Amadeus and I can say that we have done it. In fact, I have already been asked to do a convention in the Sahara desert: there is no one, but I am calm. I know how to do it “.
Perhaps with Renzi, in Saudi Arabia he is at home, there is also the desert …
“He is more of a showman than me, among politicians he is the most showman of all, he is only 2%, but in his field it is already a lot. Instead I have to apologize to Zingaretti, I thought he was resigning because of me but I realized that the problems were different.
The feeling, also expressed by Amadeus, is that not everyone is willing to spend a few hours of carefree, the drop in ratings compared to last year can also be explained in this way. As if many people were bothered by the good humor of the Festival, dystonic compared to the feeling of the country.
“There is nothing we can do about it. We are all sad, we are just doing our job. I understand that there are sad people who want to see sadness, but there are others, millions, who also want to see happiness. Ten million viewers in times of pandemic and streaming platforms are a miracle. I think we still deserve a round of applause.
2022 should be the year of all those vaccinated, of normality. Why not go back to San Remo?
«In my career I have always spent a few years between one show and another, between one program and another. With Sanremo, on the other hand, I have already given a lot, in the last four years I have been here 3 times, once with Baglioni and twice with Amadeus. If I am lucky enough to be 70 years old, we will talk about it again, but in reality I know that I will not come because at that age I will already be retired ».
What will you do after the Festival?
“I will abide by national anticovid rules, I will stay home if I have to stay, I will go out if I can. I hope to get vaccinated very soon, I don’t know when the 61-year-olds will be but I think we are third in the ranking. In a while, my generation’s time comes, I can’t wait. I tell Italians to grit their teeth, it is hard for health and for work: I see the faces of those in my sector who do not work, the difficulties affect the general mood of the whole country. I know that in the collective imagination the character of the entertainment world is the one who is fine, but that does not mean that I am really saddened and saddened. I am not one of those who quote philosophers or poets, but I remember a phrase from Corvo, the movie with Brandon Lee: It can’t rain forever ».
March 6, 2021 (change March 6, 2021 | 08:22)
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