When I sat down for lunch in Bryant Park, Manhattan, with ”The four seasons“Star Marco CalvaniI asked him if anyone had acknowledged him on the street during the Press Tour for the Netflix series.
“I learn to enjoy this time until it lasts. These signs at Santa Monica Boulevard, in three months, will be another face. Sunset Boulevard, we took over, everywhere, my big, gigantic face. I didn’t know any of this before, so I couldn’t say I was scared. That I was scared, but I did not know what to expect. Yesterday, I was around New York, and 10 people for an hour on this, so I would not say that I was scared, but I did not know what to expect. Yesterday I was around New York, and 10 people for an hour on this, so I would not say that I was scared. Tina Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield.
At the end of our lunch, our waiter stopped about Calvani, the eloquent and delightful charismatic, Italian actor and filmmaker who now lives in Los Angeles, in fact the guy was from “The four seasons. “Calvani is, of course, now a best supportive actor in a comedy series Emmy -challenger for the hit show.
Inspired by Alan Alda’s 1981 film with the same name, the series follows a Väng Group with three married couples (Fey and Will Forte; Steve Carell and Kerri Kenney-Silver; and Colman Domingo and Calvani, in a rare healthy gay marriage on all screens) during the seasons when quarter trips and collections test their bindings. Calvani plays Claude, the last addition to the group and one who sometimes feels like the extra wheel as a proud flamboyant, neck-peeling gay Italian whose presentation on the surface looks like a caricatur, but it is a calvani-bues with depth and emotion.
It was Calvani’s newfound friend Colman Domingo, who plays Claude’s more measured husband, who led him for the role. “He called and said,“ Hi, are you still an actor? “I said no,” Calvani recalled, who began in Italian theater before he emigrated to the United States. He is now primarily a director and screenwriter, including at his function debut from last year, the elegant provincetown-set “High tide“A gay romance with his real partner, Brazilian actor Marco Pigossi.
“He was like, damn it, for my husband Raul had a vision.” Would you mind putting yourself on tape? “I really thought he needed some Italian, a bartender or waiter, who says” pizza and lasagna. “I asked what it was, and he didn’t tell me, and thank God he didn’t, because I would have cheated,” said Calvani about “four seasons”.
Calvani said he felt free “enough to do it, and it was fun, but it was not easy to try on a more practical and professional level,” he said about his return to acting. “On the page, The Character was Close to stereotypical, and I did not want to do that. It would have been boring for me because it’s too easy. It was quite a challenge to brocket pockets of depth into the roy Layers, but I did not want to play the stereotype, The Italian Man Who Screams, WHO’s Theater, The Middle-Aged Gay Man Who’s Flamboyant. It was a huge risk, but at the same time we make a comedy … I think that when (my character is) angry, even if I throw clothes and even if I throw clothes and even if I throw clothes and even. I hope I anchor myself to the truth about what I felt. ”
Claude is married to Domingo’s architect Danny in the series, with Calvani in a role that has been retrofitted for modern times but was originally built for Rita Moreno in the Alda movie. Calvani never saw the original film, which is now flowing for the first time and on Netflix. “This was one of Tina’s favorite movies. I was not familiar with it at all. I was born when the movie was made. When I became cast, I tried to watch the movie, and it was not available anywhere. Maybe it’s a sign that I had to make my own version of Rita Moreno,” Calvani said.
Calvani’s latest friendship with Domingo helped to contribute to an admired relationship-Claude and Danny have their quotidian problems as well as all couples, but you get the feeling in the show for two people who really go through jealousy and storage (especially when their relationship begins to open).
“These two characters love each other deeply, even though they go through a crisis. There is a huge amount of respect and passion between them,” Calvani said about his work with the series, who shot in places ranging from Upstate New York in Beacon to Puerto Rico. “Colman and I have been friends, but just for – not even – two years ago. A year ago, when we started shooting, we were still in the phase where there is a kind of love. You want to know more about the other, so we were really happy to spend a lot of time together. That excitement … was the most important ingredient we poured into the roles and in our chemistry.”
Calvani said that early experiences in Italy, how painful or fighting, in the lead role in something like “four seasons” possible and made him feel a little braver in deconstructing the possible stereotypical side of Claude.
“I left Italy 12, 15 years ago,” he said. “I think I wore a lot of homophobia. Everyone knew I was gay, but I was not out and published my homosexuality. I have never put it in my work. I don’t think I could have been this free as an actor who played Claude if I had not gone through” high tide “and even if I was (not so. Theatrical, be more gay in the show than in real life, I just went for the game.
“The Four Seasons” is now flowing on Netflix.
