Lina Sastri lives in Naples, in the San Lorenzo district. "In San Lorenzo I shot La casa di Ninetta, which is my first film as a director, it will go to the Bari Festival in March, I also wrote it, co-produced it and I have a small part. The protagonist is Ninetta, my mother, the film is dedicated to her". Lina tells her city to Corriere della Sera. A city lived until 17 years before going to Rome, to become an actress. "Of Naples, I have mixed memories, we used to play in the street, my father was there and he wasn’t, because he made a life in Brazil, he was a hawker, he had two other children from a white woman and a black woman whom I have never seen. We found out later about the second family. I remember my father's absence and difficult character".
Lina has never spoken about her brother Carmine. "He was older than me, he did many things, he was kind of a pirate. Before getting sick he opened a restaurant in Naples, he prepared traditional dishes, pasta and potatoes... I would like to say goodbye like this, with an image of food that brings me back to my beloved Eduardo, the theater where you eat and sip coffee, the theater of things and facts".
A city that she has come to love again. "Of Naples, having overcome a bit of adolescent snobbery, I have everything it gave me, the language, my mother, the music, its unpredictability and inconsistency, its essence as a seaside city where different colors stir".
Lina Sastri has been married once. But for a short time. Very short: "Six months, with Ruben Celiberti, an Argentine dancer and singer. I don't even remember when we got married. We were always arguing. Once I went to Buenos Aires and came back the next day". A marriage without having experienced the pleasure of motherhood: "I didn't have children... It was a great pain. It had to go like this".
Recently Lina participated in Dancing with the Stars: "A pleasant but difficult experience. It was 2020, it was work under Covid. My brother died in those weeks. I had no free thoughts, I lived with pain. And I'm not good at being a television personality".
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