«They know me for music but I’m an actor who sings»- Corriere.it

Success, Lodo Guenzi, someone who has good reading behind him and speaks poetically a bit, achieved it with music. At the Sanremo Festival he and his group, Lo Stato Sociale, finished second in 2018. The new album comes out on May 6th Stupid, sexy, future: We hadn’t made records for six years, we forgot to make them and then we forgot why we stopped making them and we remembered that we love each other, we are the most beautiful couple in the world because there are five of us. Yet he considers himself an actor who sings. And in Pupi Avati’s film, The fourteenth Sunday of ordinary time, to be released on May 4, plays Marzio, a failed musician; he performs in duo, I Leggenda. The story runs through their life. As seniors, he Gabriele Lavia and the other Massimo Lopez. Lodo will marry, the adult woman Edwige Fenech, returned to acting after a while. This film deals with my beginnings and the part of me that still wants to play, says Lodo. So are you an actor? I always have. I don’t have a singing vocal technique, even though people know me for music.

His Marzio is a hotheaded, jealous, possessive type. A boy ruined by dreams of him turning into a violent person. History is full of examples, in Germany in the 1940s there was a painter who was born a house painter and turned into the devil who caused hundreds of millions of deaths. Then you are an actor. I always have. I don’t have a singing vocal technique, even though people know me for music. The song from the movie? Text by Pupi Avati and music by Sergio Cammeriere. If we say that Luigi Tenco remembers a heresy? No, he has that kind of free songwriting, not attached to the rhythmic, he delves into the interiority. I would put it in a promiscuous place between Luigi Tenco and Piero Ciampi. This film is a love letter sent to friends who started with me 15 years ago. Some are no more. The possibility of failure strong. When you decide to live on dreams, if you don’t make them come true, you can think that one day your life will change. I’ve made a few. But I’m never satisfied, there is never an end to the journey. Agassi, the former tennis player, writes in his book that when you’re at the top of a Grand Slam tournament, winning doesn’t change anything and you keep this secret. Lodo, ​​a 36-year-old from Bologna, attended the Nico Pepe Theater Academy in Udine, who was the historical Pantalone of Strehler’s Harlequin. He says that in life trying to play beautiful and cruel, there are those who get lost and find themselves, those who take drugs and those who don’t understand why he did it. If you survive you become a sort of angel of death who passes through the existence of others.

His beginnings are those of many artists, seasoned with madness: In 1990 we were traveling around in a van for little money, we went to Ferrandina in Basilicata, an axle shaft broke on a highway, we ended up lost in the countryside, smoke arose, then a blaze. He says that Lo Stato Sociale is a politicized group with a certain ironic taste, a pop band that plays pop music; he says that in the world of work, excellence is an asset, as long as survival is available to everyone, even those who have no talent, or the stupid. Now everyone is afraid of excellence because even survival has become a race.

The name of the group, so tetragonal, is an opportunity to make fun of cumbersome concepts, let’s look out the window and talk about the balance of power on which the company is built. The fact that I’m from Bologna, where you grow up with a good political conscience, certainly had some weight.

In the film, the Leggenda duo is not taken in Sanremo, you came second. It was a week that changed our destiny. But the film is the best experience of my life, even if no one has to see it. With Pupi Avati communicated with looks: At a certain point he raises the level of the confrontation, puts his fragility into play, strips himself naked and an invitation to do the same, otherwise like wearing a coat on a nudist beach. He has empathy for his character Darien, who is terrified of holding on to dreams when everything goes wrong. His wife cheats on him with another member of the band. A film about the betrayal of friendship? In bands we think more like in weddings, the central group is all-encompassing, while the girl who has sex with her musician friend is devastating but lateral. I’ve known many…. Have you ever, like Marzio in the film, sang drunk? Yes, and it went great, I can make things happen even when I’m tipsy.

Lodo was born into a wealthy family from Bologna, his father a university professor, his mother a judge. And he has great sensitivity towards others less fortunate: I’m wealthy, true, but poorer than Carl Marx. I think that just because you can afford it you have to have an eye on the company.