Sabrina Impacciatore: From Harassment in Italy to Empowerment on 'The White Lotus'

"In Italy, my colleagues would touch me everywhere, off-set I counted at least four, and two with teachers at school. I confess to having always suffered in silence. However, once my eyes filled with tears and that made him stop," says Sabrina Impacciatore, the actress who gained international fame thanks to the success of 'The White Lotus' and starred in an episode of the second season of the series 'Call my agent' on Sky. In an interview with Corriere della Sera, she talked about her experience on US sets. In US productions, following the Me Too movement, the role of the intimacy coordinator has become standard. Sabrina Impacciatore revealed her initial perplexity: "At first it seemed surreal and exaggerated, but now I bless its existence," she confesses. Her experience on the set of 'White Lotus', where she was given the opportunity to express her preferences regarding intimate scenes, marks a stark contrast with her previous experiences in Italy, where she suffered inappropriate behavior. "I came from Italy where many colleagues would touch me everywhere," she reveals, highlighting the widespread lack of respect for personal boundaries in the Italian film industry. As for her love life, Sabrina Impacciatore maintains a traditional approach in relationships, saying she has never seduced a man and does not understand women who get offended if men make advances, as long as there is a minimum of mutual interest. "No, I'm old-fashioned. I don't understand women who get offended if men try," she says. The actress also talks about how she manages her relationship with her agents, calling herself "the ideal client" and not sparing anecdotes about her resourcefulness in solving the unforeseen events that can happen in her work. Like when she fixed a shoe strap by herself at the Emmys or when she faced a mishap with the bodice of her dress at the Sanremo Festival in 2018. Regarding the future, Impacciatore says she is grateful for the experiences lived and does not feel the pressure to achieve other milestones like starring in a film in Venice or making her directorial debut. "I feel grateful for what I am experiencing, I am not lacking, it will come," she says, while recalling the dark periods of her career, when she felt invisible in the Italian film industry.