Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – "I've always underestimated myself because, unfortunately, the way I am, I'm the king of self-sabotage." This is how Luca Barbareschi confesses his difficulty accepting his own success. The actor, a guest on 'Ciao Maschio,' in the episode airing tomorrow, Saturday, October 17, explains that when faced with success, "the first thing I think is that I don't deserve it."
And when De Girolamo recalls impostor syndrome, he confirms it.
During the interview, Nunzia De Girolamo returns to Gabriele Salvatores's comments, asking Barbareschi if, as the director claimed, he really used everything and everyone for his own career. "This is something Gabriele apologized for, because it really hurt me.
"I've never used everything and everyone, I've never used people," the actor replies. Then he adds: "I think he said this sentence in a moment of confusion, and I accept his apology."
The discussion shifts to the relationship between entertainment and politics. "He called me a ministerial rat," says Barbareschi, referring to Salvatores.
And he replies: “Let anyone who hasn't been a ministerial mouse in this country cast the first stone, because it's a country where if you don't have a relationship with politics you can't even move a piece of chalk from the blackboard.”
During the interview, he also discusses his relationship with Lucrezia Lante della Rovere. "I fell in love, period, and I still love her dearly. I was a bit of a Pygmalion." He recalls a quote from Lucrezia about that relationship: "The limit of my suffering is lower than yours." Nunzia De Girolamo asks him if they broke up even though they loved each other. "No, no, she left me," Barbareschi clarifies.
Nunzia De Girolamo asks him who he would work with as a director today. Barbareschi responds by reviewing his own experiences: "I have a resume unlike anyone else in Europe, I say this a bit arrogantly." From IT to theater, to television production in the United States, the actor lists his career achievements: "I created a publicly traded IT company, then sold it. I hired four engineers who are now in key positions in Europe; they were 22 or 23 years old." He adds: "I bought a theater and renovated it with my own money. I put in 1500 hours of production time in America and 200 hours as a host."
Barbareschi also claims he didn't choose his collaborators based on their political positions: "I've never made political distinctions with anyone who worked with me." When Nunzia De Girolamo asks him about his disagreements with Sergio Rubini, Barbareschi replies: "Sergio is a phenomenal natural talent."
He then recounts an episode related to Roman Polanski: "I had also put him in Polanski's films. He had already prepared the sketches for the character of Rubini. But that's Sergio's nature: when faced with an obstacle, he turns it down. And he never showed up," he adds. He is then moved by a video message from Simone Annichiarico, who brings the interview back to the memory of Walter Chiari: "Walter was a part of my life. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to be Walter Chiari, which was something else entirely."
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