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DENISE CAPEZZA

Sometimes they're more talented a total opposite story from them. it very touching. I thought that these
than who won. So it was, of course, Instead, I found exactly everything people were very free with their ideas,
I was super happy, but I also tried except what I was expecting from that but good, good people. And then I
to be very... We say in Italian, keep world. And I was surprised because I met them. I contacted the writer,
your feet on the ground and be very found the guy who basically started and then she introduced me to all the
practical and focused on your job. porn in Italy, who had a very gentle, real... To Eva, Massimiliano, all the
kind, almost feminist point of view. characters that are still alive, or like
"Diva Futura" it's a film that He didn't have any sense of shame, but Moana's husband, people who have
may have a bombastic theme he never associated violence to sex. worked for Riccardo Schicchi. And
(the Italian porn industry) but it And he couldn't stand who eventually so the more I came to know all these
surprises us by being a story of after started to do violent porn. That's people, the more they would tell me
people with common problems why eventually he regretted what he about their story, they added a lot of
in an eccentric setting. Did that started. So, I was pretty surprised. details to what I already read in the
surprise you too? Yes, I was so surprised. And then even book. So I said, okay, I really like this.
Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: Well, the personal life was so human, so And also, I think as a woman, for me,
that's exactly what I liked about the heartbreaking that I decided to tell the it was interesting to tell this story
story. When I first read the book story of this big family of people. from a nowadays woman point of view,
and then I met the real characters, because they had a very sensitive way
still alive, and they started to tell How did the idea for this film came of looking at women. It's a paradox
me also all their personal stories. I about? because it was in the porn industry.
felt very close to them. And even if I Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: So this That made me also feel that there were
have nothing to do with that world, friend of mine, she's an actress, Greta a lot of contemporary themes.
I felt that this specific group, was Scarano, she read the book, and she
very warm. It was like a big family. It gave me the book, and I read it, and I What was it like creating this
surprised me because I was expecting was surprised. And I had fun. I found script?

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