“Brave ragazze” in theaters from October. The new comedy by Michela Andreozzi in which Serena Rossi will be the woman who is all home and church, then a flower child in “La tristeza ha il sonno leggero”, the voice actress of Anna in “Frozen 2” and also one of the actresses in the new “Diabolik” by the Manetti Bros. However, Serena Rossi – she tells AGI – still feels very much like Mia Martini, who masterfully interpreted in “Io sono Mia” the film by Riccardo Donna, first a special event at the cinema and then an all-star audience sharer on Raiuno last February.
“They warned me that it would be complicated to detach myself from Mimì – she explains – a year and a half after the start of the journey of “Io sono Mia” I still feel emotionally very close to her and I often find myself thinking like her. Mimì, hatefully pointed out as a woman who brought bad luck, is bringing me a lot of luck”, clarifies the actress-singer-host-dubber who tonight in Taormina will receive a special Nastro d'argento for her interpretation of Mia Martina. The project of identification with the artist who passed away in '95 is still ongoing, she analyses, also due to the closeness with Martini's great friend, Alba Calìa (“I went to her house before filming and now we hang out”) and with Olivia Berte', Mia's sister: “I often go to dinner at her house, she cooked me chocolate mousse with Mimì's recipe, she also gave me some of her clothes, a vest and a shirt that I often wear”. Rossi, linked to her colleague Davide Devenuto with whom she had her son Diego three years ago, was born in Naples and has lived in the capital for about ten years ("I have a visceral bond with my city, my family of origin is there and even the sets often bring me back there, but Rome represents my independence") and says that identifying with Martini also helped her to free herself from superstitious rituals of "it's not true but I believe it": "As a Neapolitan, I also had my little rituals, I wouldn't walk under the stairs, I would stop when a black cat passed by, I was afraid of salt that fell on the table. Now, after having relived in Mimi's shoes the evil that can arise from these weaknesses, I've given up on them. I always tell everyone that bad luck doesn't exist, if anything I believe in the superstition of positive thinking".
Happy that "the choice of a positive and smiling actress like me for the role of Mimi' could help the public understand that she too was very sunny and light-hearted" she is proud to have said publicly on the stage of the Sanremo Festival that the time had come to apologize to Mia Martini: "I had to proclaim it right there, from the stage that had long marginalized her. Depriving an artist of her professional life was a great form of violence". Rossi, born a singer and who in Sanremo, accompanied on the piano by Claudio Baglioni, paid homage to Martini by singing "Almeno tu nell'universo", rules out her future participation in the Sanremo Festival as a competitor: "It's too demanding, you need a solid recording project". However, she would like to return as co-host, she clarifies "alongside Fiorello and Paola Cortellesi": "Many are scared of the Festival. On the other hand, it gives me a lot of energy, I feel great on that stage, next to Baglioni I was full of energy, I felt like a cricket". Moving on to her new projects, in October the film “Brave ragazze” will be released, a comedy by Michela Andreozzi in which Rossi stars alongside Andreozzi herself, Ambra Angiolini, Ilenia Pastorelli and Silvia D'Amico (and Luca Argentero). She explains that it is her first all-female ensemble comedy: “We have dispelled the prejudice that fears rivalry and a tense climate in female work groups. I am proud of how united we were on and off the screen”. The film where she plays a woman resigned to her husband's violence (“and unfortunately there are many”) where together with her friends at a certain point she decides to change the course of her life in a spectacular way, she tells that in Gaeta, in their free time from the set they all went running together and out to eat. “To facilitate communication between us I also created a WhatsApp group called “Brave ragazze un corno” where we exchanged service messages, jokes, videos and which we still keep alive, also commenting on each other's performances at the cinema or on TV”.
Next season she will also star in two top secret Rai fictions and the movie “La tristezza ha il sonno leggero” will be released, based on the novel by Lorenzo Marone and directed by Marco Mario de Notaris, in which she plays alongside Stefania Sandrelli (who also appears in “Brave ragazze”): “It is set in Naples, during the fall of the Berlin Wall. I will be a slightly strange flower child, I needed a light-hearted character after the role of Mimi'. The head of the family is Sandrelli, I adore her. I like to watch great actresses like her, how she puts on makeup, how she does her hair and above all how she knows how to question herself. I am lucky that she likes me too, she jokes that “I am worth eating”. Sandrelli had lost herself in “Io sono Mia” at the movies and on TV: “I gave her the DVD and after watching it with her husband they called me, moved”. Next week Rossi will start filming, again alongside Giampaolo Morelli, the film based on the book by the actor-director Sette ore per fatti innamorare: “I’ll be a tough girl who teaches seduction courses”. And then there’s Diabolik by the Manetti Bros: “When you film with them you become part of a big family: they wanted to give a small role to many actors from their films here too, but for now I can’t reveal anything else”. And her real family, the one she forms with Davide Devenuto and Diego? Last February, guests of Domenica in, on Raiuno, he made her a surprise marriage proposal, which went viral on the web: “We don’t have any immediate wedding plans, we’re very happy like this, that was a bit of a game that was amplified in a mediated way”. But Rossi, who is an actress, singer, voice actress and presenter, has she decided what she prefers to do in the future? “I really don’t want to choose. I fight for the freedom to express myself 360 degrees, among other things knowing how to sing is an added value, because many acting roles are also musical. And remaining in the cinema, she says that she would like one day to be directed by Paolo Virzì: "I like how he talks about women".
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