He was one of the many characters discovered by Maurizio Costanzo. And last night he was there, among the guests at the evening event in commemoration of the journalist, broadcast on Channel 5 right from the Parioli theater. Enzo Iacchetti could not be missing. «It seemed absurd not to find Maurizio: for me he had to be there, I expected to see him. I arrived at the point where we usually met, where his studio was. But I didn't want to go in, I couldn't do it», he tells Corriere della Sera.
The last chance
«Costanzo saved my life. Professionally - Iacchetti recounts - The Maurizio Costanzo Show was my last chance: I was 39 years old, a three-year-old son and I had already done all the auditions in the world. Even for the Costanzo show they discarded me... he wasn't there. So, out of anger, I left my texts, my material there. After a month they called me back. I had already decided to open a bar tobacconist on Lake Maggiore, perhaps with a stage on which, whoever wanted, could perform. When the call came, I explained that I had already been to Rome and that I had already been discarded but the editor of the show said that she had read what I had sent, she didn't know that I had actually left it and she let me do an episode: if Costanzo liked it he would have made a sign with a finger during the broadcast and I would have returned. He had invented the like».
The 187 episodes
«I was very in awe - he remembers - but he on stage had sucked up everything I had prepared. Then he had joined me in the dressing room telling me to lock myself in the hotel and produce as much material as possible: you will come three times a week. In four days my life changed: they stopped me on the street, they recognized me. I thought I was doing an episode, I did 187. I loved him and asked him for advice on everything. "Should I accept this job?". And he (imitating his voice): "Yes but ask him for a lot of money...". He knew the apprenticeship I had done...».
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