From the difficult period in which she thought of giving up everything to the nomination for the Emmy, through love and her idea of family, Sabrina Impacciatore told her story in a long interview, talking about the extraordinary success she has achieved recently and all the "no" she had to face before getting here.
The interview
In Sabrina Impacciatore's life there is a before and after. Yes, because despite already being very famous in Italy, the Roman actress achieved worldwide success in 2022, thanks to her performance in the highly acclaimed series «The White Lotus». Having become the most loved Italian woman in America thanks to the series created, scripted and directed by Mike White, Sabrina Impacciatore is now living a new life, between Emmy nominations, shared sets with Hollywood stars and top secret projects coming out.
Interviewed by Chiara Oltolini on «Vanity Fair», the actress retraced her career, from «Domenica In» and «Non è la Rai» to discovering that she was one of the candidates for the Emmys, the Oscars of TV. Then space for her "strict" education and the relationship with her parents, who taught her respect for herself and others: «I thank my parents for giving me freedom with a dropper, teaching me respect for myself and others. Mom was an employee at the Ministry of Finance, Dad was a manager and shareholder of Bosch, responsible for the appliance branch in Sardinia: he came back with suitcases full of gifts, organized treasure hunts for my mother, set up discos at home for me. They never asked me to get married or have children... in short, the classic pressures of their generation. But they wanted a solid job for me».
Then the story of the beginnings and the sacrifices made to get here, between painful "no" and key moments: «The epiphanic moments were many. For example, the last day on set of my very first film, Unfair Competition by Ettore Scola, another Maestro. I had hidden in a room of the set, he came looking for me. "Why are you crying?", he asked me. "Because I can't stand that this is over". And he: "Don't cry Sabrina, this for you is just the beginning". A second epiphanic moment: at the premiere of The Last Kiss by Gabriele Muccino. At the end of the screening I lost sight of my parents. I waited for the room to empty and found them crouched under the seats, sobbing moved. They had just realized that I could not do anything else in life, despite their contrary opinion, despite the rejections, the doors in the face, the sufferings».
Space also for disappointments and the complicated period after Sanremo 2018 and Muccino's film «All's well at home»: «I was coming from a magical period, then I was still for three years. Few proposals, maybe a couple wrong. I work on inspiration: if the flame for the project or the director is missing, I don't work. I thought I should give up. I was ready to release interviews in which I said goodbye. I suffered a lot. Shortly after the pandemic broke out. A friend suggested I contact an acting coach in England: I studied Lady Macbeth with him, just like that, without knowing if I would ever go back on stage. Then White Lotus came».
Free for three and a half years, as she prefers to define herself instead of using the word "single", Sabrina Impacciatore is healing her emotional wounds: «I am a person of extreme feelings, flesh and blood, even in friendships. It was a blessing to be alone for a while, when I fall in love my emotions are totalizing and I work less. The girl does not apply (laughs, ed). But now I feel ready to welcome a love partner, I know that sooner or later he will come». On the family, the actress then added: «I didn't build it because, by nature and spirit of dedication, I wouldn't have done anything else. I would have devoted myself entirely to children and since I dream big I would have wanted ten. But it's time to stop considering a woman complete only if she becomes a mother. You can leave a trace of yourself without having to necessarily bring children into the world, you can be creators in another way and act your maternal sense in an unexpected form. This is really the decisive time for a cultural revolution».
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