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and you're just with them. And that's How did you choose to work with house. And so we decided to do, I call
what I was mostly concerned about, Denise Capezza (Moana) e Tesa it the Forest Gump operation. And we
but also what I wanted to focus on. Litvan (Eva Henger) on the archive got all the original footage, and we
But I'm glad you have this impression. interviews? put our actresses in there. We kept the
Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: Well, voices of the original journalist, and
What was the challenge like to also Lidija Kordic. Well, the fact is we insert our actresses' voices. And
create almost four films, four well- that those videos are real. They exist. all this was just to really bring to the
defined stories and the process of Those like they were part of the screen that amazing time in which
cohesion between all these stories everyday most popular TV shows in they were like superstars, but foreign
to result in a beautiful film? Italy. It's something that today could actresses. And so it's something that,
Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: I think never happen. You don't have a porn as I was telling you before, today
mostly it's the theme. I mean, for me, star on a national successful TV show could never happen. You could never
every time I write, before I was able in So for those who remember that, I have a porn star in Parliament. Or if
to become a director, I wrote also a lot wanted to show it again, but I couldn't the snake dies, a porn star snake dies,
of other scripts for other directors. It have the real characters because it you don't cover the front pages of
was always the theme. If you have a would have been distracting. And newspapers. I really wanted for people
theme in your mind that guides the for those who didn't live that... Even to realize what the big impact they
whole movie, then, and you follow it on my generation doesn't remember had on society.
an emotional level, I think that helps everything because some parts were
a lot. But I don't know, this is what before. I wanted for people to really How did Eva Henger, Debora
helps me, to follow the theme, but on realize what was their what happened, Attanasio and Ilona Staller react?
an emotional level. So to blend it all what they did, how different was the Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: Ilona
together. culture, how deep they got into every Staller is the only one I couldn't get

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