«A touch of irony in my first dramatic role»- Corriere.it

«Gabriel Mainetti he told me he realized i could play a dramatic role by seeing me in Lol. Yes, he makes you laugh, but he’s actually right: I’ve always put shades of melancholy in my comic works. And this time I put a touch of irony in a character who is not comical». He was in fact the director of They called him Jeeg Robotas producer with Goons Film, and also author of the soundtrack with Michele Braga, to propose Virginia Raphael For Shark teeth, Davide Gentile’s first work, written by Valerio Cilio and Gianluca Leoncini (for which they won the Solinas Prize), in theaters from 8 June with Lucky Red which co-produced it with IdeaCinema and Rai Cinema. She is Rita, mother of thirteen-year-old Walter (newcomer Tiziano Menichelli) who lives a difficult summer, grappling with the death of her father (Claudio Santamaria), a mourning that she is unable to share with her, from which indeed she tends to flee , in continuous wanderings on the Roman coast (filmed in Tor San Lorenzo). Until the landing at an abandoned villa with a gigantic swimming pool. And mysterious presences.

“The film is one modern fairy tale but my character is a real woman, whose motivations I tried to focus on to make her three-dimensional. I am a fan of the many facets of the human soul. I have always put myself on the line, in the theatre, on TV, on the radio, in the cinema, as an unconscious person. This profession speaks to you, you can never sit on what has already been done». Ready to seize the moment even during the press meetings, not letting Edoardo Pesce pass one, here in a cameo as a villain, the Corsair («I’m the Jessica Rabbit de’ noantri: if you need a villain, call me»). And singing the praises of the very young partner. «Tiziano feared that his Walter would turn out to be bad, I’m not, he said. Then as a true actor, he gave him spontaneity ». The idea, explained the screenwriters, “was to tell a realistic fable, which has a point of view anchored to the innocence of the protagonist, to the wonder he feels when he meets the totem, the dragon, the shark”. The idea came from a photo of a child carrying a dead shark on his shoulders at the Mogadishu market. The one in the film, very realistic, is the result of a good mix of technology and special effects. “Never done anything like this in Italy.”