I lay under the rubble and felt like death was near” – Corriere.it

He has disappeared into fiction since 2017. Now Gabriel Garko returns to television in a specific role If I could say goodbye to you, with Anna Safroncik, from March 29th on Canale 5 in three episodes, directed by Simona Izzo and Ricky Tognazzi. “I took on this project,” the actor begins, “because it was the right thing to get back into acting.” In the last few years I moved away, not to retire from the scene for good, but because I needed a break. Fame is sometimes overwhelming, I felt the need for new lungs to breathe a different air.

The move away from video in recent years, other than participating in dancing with the starsWas it perhaps because he came out on Big Brother, which was perhaps not appreciated by some?

No, absolutely, because if that were the case there would be a serious problem. I never noticed any discrimination or mention of unfortunate jokes. I just needed my free time. To certain statements made by those who believe that heterosexual roles must be played by heterosexual actors and gay roles must be entrusted to gays, I would respond: Actors must not play themselves, but rather slip into the skin of a character different from them.

Marcello De Angelis, his character, is hospitalized: found unconscious at the foot of a cliff, he was in a coma and when he woke up he completely lost his memory, he doesn’t even remember his name, he has troubling feelings secrets that populate his past. A bit like what happened to you in real life?

In my personal story, the word “disturbing” is an exaggeration. Let’s assume that there is a connection between Marcello and Gabriel, especially the desire to remember the past.

Get hurt?

On the contrary, to use the wealth of experience to avoid making the same mistakes. When something unpleasant happens to us, at that moment we say: What the hell did that have to happen to me? Then you realize that a negative event can turn into a positive one. For example, in 2016, when I was involved in the explosion of a villa near Sanremo: an accident that changed my life, I landed under the rubble, I felt that death was near… but precisely from that episode, from I miraculously emerged unscathed. I decided to enjoy life, to be positive about things… I made things right again.

A relevant theme of fiction is the search for truth: is it a problem you have had in your existence?

My philosophy is that I prefer an ugly truth to a good lie. The first one may hurt you, but you can solve the problem in other ways. Behind the second one I see mud.

Away from the screens, he has published a novel The linden garden, where he deals with two relevant topics: a father’s Alzheimer’s disease and the rainbow family of his homosexual son, who is not accepted by his elderly parents. A story that has something autobiographical about it?

Completely made up, except for Alzheimer’s disease, which unfortunately also affected my father. I have never had problems with my family, but it is true that reality often exceeds fantasy and what I tell in the novel happened to many people I know.

Not only a television and cinema career, but also a theater career with great directors: Luca Ronconi and Franco Zeffirelli, to name just two.

Two masters, they taught me a lot, even two great screamers: when something was wrong, it was difficult to contain their anger! And I want to get back on stage! I wrote a comedy called Naked
so “naked”, I hope to bring it to the stage soon.

Strip naked and talk about the mistakes you made?


The only mistake I have made and will continue to make is that I trust people, not out of naivety, but because I like trusting others. Unfortunately, I realized that some people are more animals than animals know how to be human.

Are the directors Izzo and Tognazzi also two screamers?

I want to give a funny definition: crazy and crazy… when I think of them like seeing a painting with an explosion of colors. They are the opposite of each other, she is visionary, he is more technical, and sometimes they argue on set, but they make up for it, and if they didn’t argue… there would be no oxygen.

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