Cinema: Ischia, Micheal Richardson 'Family Pride'

Cinema: Ischia, Michael Richardson, "Family Pride." At the Global Film Festival, the actor, son of Neeson and grandson of Redgrave, will be present.

“At 12 I understood that I couldn’t become a professional football player. I have always lived surrounded by artists of value and that energy that I breathed became respect for my family and then enthusiasm, pride. But the final choice was mine, I had no pressure”.

In art, his is a royal dynasty, no small responsibility to be called Micheal Richardson if you are a young actor, with a passion for screenwriting and the dream of directing. Born in '95, beauty and charisma in his DNA, he naturally tells his story at the Ischia Global festival that elected him emerging actor of the year: his parents are Liam Neeson and the late Natasha Richardson, whose surname he wanted to take.

“A tribute to her and also the possibility of being able to assert myself without such a direct comparison with my father”, explains. He is also the grandson of Vanessa Redgrave (“great grandmother, she's still on stage!”) and director Tony Richardson, “we descend from itinerant artists of the 17th century”, remember, in short the fate was sealed.

He is in Ischia with the preview of an independent film in which he is the protagonist, “On Our Way” about the demons of an aspiring filmmaker, directed by the young Sophie Lane Curtis. “She's a schoolmate. It took us more than four years to make this project, with a crew of twenty-year-olds. We worked hard, not everything is as simple as you think”, he says, recounting the many auditions after training at Lee Strasberg's school.

His personal story could be a movie.

“My name is Michael because I was born in Dublin when my father was working on the set of Michael Collins, by Neil Jordan. After two weeks I was in New York, now my city: a gold mine, at every corner you can find inspiration! But I also feel a little Italian because I was baptized in Rome, in an orphanage”. He often acted with his father, "even in 'Made in Italy - A house to find yourself', in Montalcino, the sweet story of a loss that seemed written for us. A few years ago they also offered me the role of the Irish patriot Collins, then the project ran aground but I hope to do it sooner or later. My favorite film by my father? Maybe Schindler's List, but also Love Actually.

Of your cinema I like Sorrentino, among the classics Fellini. I am very happy that Ischia Global has offered me a showcase”. His adoptive grandfather Franco Nero celebrates him with love, the family history continues.