“The melancholy is a wonderful feeling: it helps in being an artist” You are 25 years old and already have an impressive curriculum vitae. When did your intense carreer begin? Lets say in 2004, a year that started with my first fortunate short “The evening of the last”, in which I played the role of a girl in the backstage of a famous television show , around me all the extras were famous television stars. Funny isn’t it? The film, who’s producer is Paolo Lipari, won first prize for being the best short of the Annecy Festival in France. From there on, I recited in other shorts, and in the summer of the same year I shot my first film in which I was the female protagonist, “Low August clouds”, finishing soon after in the Canale 5 studio’s with the sit-com “The supermarket”. I am 25 years old and I am satisfied with what I have done up to now, it has not been easy to combine university and drama school, especially when I started working, as acting is difficult I have always preferred to put off an exam, rather than work, and maybe I did well… In the theatre you have interpreted all kinds of roles, from drama to comedy. In which do you feel most at ease? They say that it more difficult for an actor to make the public cry than laugh. Do you agree? I don’t know ..there isn’t a role that I find easier, I think all depends on the what one is living personally at the time… paradoxically when one is more serene it is easier to enter in a dramatic role and vice versa. To identify oneself, I think a distance from the character is necessary, the perception of what you do is more objective and functional; emotive involvement doesn’t always help creativity. I don’t agree, it is basically more difficult to make people laugh…. Any way it depends a lot on the public, women cry easily, whilst men have fun easily without a snobbish attitude for what concerns laughing. In the 2004 sit-com “The supermarket” you were a “young girl without her feet on the ground” in a very particular family (Angela Finocchiaro and Enrico Bertolino’s daughter). What were you like when you were a teen, perky or melancholic? Both, melancholy is a marvellous condition, that nourishes the artistic side, I often actually searched for it, but deep inside I have always been full of life, energetic and with a great will to laugh and keep a playing space in my life. 4. In an episode of the last series of Don Matteo, I found your interpretation of Francesca very good indeed. Francesca is a girl that loves animals and has lost faith in man kind . What kind of relationship do you have towards animals and nature? I have read that you love horses. Like lots of other people, as soon as possible, I run away from the city, to the country or if possible to the sea. I respect nature a lot and I am fascinated by animals, often one forgets how many species exist in nature…when I think of l’artisticigiraffes it seems impossible! I imagine them as cartoons. Horses are beautiful, they express elegance and strength, freedom and independence, but they are also fearful animals…. For this reason, they have such a mysterious and great attractive force. Where do you feel more at peace, on the stage or in front of a camera? I would dare to say in front of a camera, but it depends on the context. Often interior balance are determined by the people that surround you, your companions and the producer. A reciprocal atmosphere of great trust is necessary to best express oneself. “The Gospel according to a temporary employee” a film by Stefano Obino, made in 2005 and in which you were Giorgia, one of the protagonists. In the film the unease of a generation that today has a job and tomorrow who knows, is represented ironically. Being an actor, different from other jobs, has always been insecure. Especially in this day and age, in which competition is very often unfair. In which way do you face these difficulties? Currently jobs are becoming more and more temporary , I share the same problems with lots of friends of mine that do other kind of jobs, and sharing helps one feel less alone…I try to live the day without thinking too much of long term programmes and I keep myself busy. When I don’t work, I study and keep myself occupied with other things, I put my time to the best use cultivating my passions. How do you think Italian cinema is? Is it talent winning? Compared to a few years ago, the Italian cinema is “alive”… a lot of Italian films are selling more tickets than American ones…. And a lot of films are better, but there still isn’t enough courage of financers, and we are repetitive in our proposals to the public, preferring to play safe and debatable choices, not evaluating the importance and responsibility that the cinema has as value and information vehicle. What projects do you presently have? Can you tell us? I am very superstitious, it’s better not to say…