Giancarlo Giannini Quotes

Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor and voice actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy and received an Academy Award nomination for Seven Beauties . He is also a four-time recipient of the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor.

Giannini began his career on stage, starring in Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. After appearing predominantly on television throughout the early 1960s, he had his first lead role in a film in Rita the Mosquito , the first of many collaborations with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller. He rose to international stardom through Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimi , Love and Anarchy , Swept Away , culminating in his Oscar-nominated turn in Seven Beauties .His other films include The Innocent , Lili Marleen , New York Stories , A Walk in the Clouds , Hannibal , Man on Fire , and the James Bond films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace . He is also a dubbing artist, contributing voice work to the Italian-language versions of dozens of films since the 1960s. He has been the official Italian dubber of Al Pacino since 1975, and has also dubbed Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and Helmut Berger. Wikipedia

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Giancarlo Giannini Quotes

“Seven Beauties was a film that nobody wanted to make, because it talks about a concentration camp. It is a true story. I managed to convince Lina [Wertmüller] to make it and it has been nominated for four Oscars.”

Giancarlo Giannini

Original: (it) Pasqualino Settebellezze era un film che non voleva far nessuno, perché parla di un campo di concentramento. È una storia vera. Sono riuscito a convincere Lina [Wertmüller] a farlo e ha avuto quattro candidature all'Oscar.

From the interview by Silvia Bizio "Il cinema è morto? Me lo diceva già Fellini" https://rep.repubblica.it/pwa/intervista/2019/02/15/news/giancarlo_giannini-219224198/?refresh_ce , Rep.repubblica.it, (February 15 2019). https://rep.repubblica.it/pwa/intervista/2019/02/15/news/giancarlo_giannini-219224198/?refresh_ce

Beauty , Making love