Stefano Accorsi on TV with “The Champion”: the cult spot, his loves and 15 other secrets about him

On Monday 12 December at 21.25, Rai 1 presents «The champion» (2019) on TV for the first time. The film, directed by director Leonardo D’Agostini, tells the story of Christian Ferro (played by Andrea Carpenzano), Roma star player, who often ends up in trouble because of his stormy nature. So Tito, the president of the team (who has the face of Massimo Popolizio), sets out in search of a professor who will help Christian to obtain the diploma as a private student, and to put his head in order. The choice will fall on Valerio Fioretti, played by Stefano Accorsi. The actor, born in Bologna in 1971, spent his childhood in the village of his parents, Bagnarola, a fraction of Budrio. And the love for cinema was born very early, before the age of ten: «I recorded films at night and watched them immediately after lunch – he told Corriere -. My father had the Encyclopedia of Cinema and I still remember what the Paul Newman page was like. At school I was exempt from religion class and one day I took advantage of it to go find out about a theater school. There I decided: after high school I would enroll». But this is not the only curiosity about him..