(Adnkronos) - La serie Originale italiana con Matilda De Angelis debutta su Prime Video. Si tratta della seconda serie dell'universo Citadel. La prima stagione di Citadel - interpretata da Richard Madden e Priyanka Chopra Jonas, e con Stanley Tucci e Lesley Manville – ha debuttato nel 2023 ed è diventata la seconda nuova serie originale di Prime Video più vista fuori dagli Stati Uniti, e la quarta più vista in tutto il mondo a 24 giorni dal lancio.
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00:00Well, I'll start from this last question, saying that actually there wasn't a day when we all faced a challenge that was physical or emotional.
00:10I have to say, there wasn't a day when I went on set and thought, well, this is easy today.
00:15Because if it wasn't something physically complicated, it was something emotionally complicated.
00:24I had to play almost two different characters, so I had to go from this pure, fragile soul of an orphan who has just lost her parents
00:35and is obsessed with the search for the truth, to this indomitable, impossible, determined and unscrupulous war machine.
00:46And sometimes, on the same day, this could happen.
00:50So the challenges were many.
00:56I have to say, I'm generally a very tender person, so I'm actually, let's say, very soft.
01:03You have to ask me what my strong point is.
01:06But, well, I recognised myself a lot in that, in Diana.
01:13I give a lot of importance to my family, both my blood family and my family, and my feelings.
01:22And love, as for Diana, is the engine that moves my world, and it's the engine that moves her world.
01:28So, I have to say, in this sense, I found myself a lot in her.
01:34Yes, definitely an oppressive family.
01:37Definitely a family that, let's say, for me, the key to entering Edo, to entering her mentality,
01:46was to start from her father, from her brother Enrico.
01:50He was a bit of the engine of everything he does.
01:53And so, yes, it's an oppressive family.
01:58And thanks to this girl here, thanks to Diana.
02:02He has the opportunity to change his destiny, which seems marked in this very aristocratic family.
02:11In short, it seems that he has a future in mind, and suddenly something happens that he didn't expect.
02:18And who knows, maybe he'll take it.
02:21Look, in the visual construction of Citadel, the most important thing was to think of a future as one could think of the past.
02:29So, the concept of retrofuturism was at the base of everything, of all the visual choices.
02:34So, to give a future that was imagined in our rationalist architecture,
02:40a bit like Petri did in The Tenth Victim, for example.
02:44So, it's a very interesting case, in short, it's very Italian.
02:50We work in a genre, which is the genre of spy stories,
02:54but in this genre we then tried to include characters that were three-dimensional,
03:01and that told their stories to the best of their ability.
03:04Well, yes, it's a story absolutely based on...
03:07I mean, the feeling is the basis of all this.
03:10And since we put a lot of relationships at stake, a father-son relationship,
03:14a sister-sister relationship, a love relationship,
03:20we have a lot of meat to cook.
03:22So, the lines of all these stories were woven to the best of their ability.
03:26They were brought and then inserted into this great spy story.
03:30I was, in short, the first to try this wig, clearly,
03:38and it was practically a case, it was almost a stroke of genius.
03:41I was with Giorgio Gregorini, who is our hair designer.
03:47How do you say hair designer in Italian?
03:49It's one of those intangible words.
03:51Well, I mean, for our hairdresser boss.
03:53But how bad it is, guys.
03:55Anyway, Giorgio Gregorini, who among other things won an Oscar,
03:59we were trying various wigs,
04:01and then at some point in the corner we see this strange wig,
04:04and I say, Giorgio, will you try it on me?
04:06He says, no, no, look, that's for extras, for extras,
04:09because Giorgio, in short, had a fundamental role in the creation of this future,
04:15which was a near and therefore credible future,
04:19but which also had to be reflected in the look.
04:23So, rightly, how will hair be worn in 2030,
04:27in a militarized society,
04:29in which probably, in short,
04:31even women may have to wear shorter hair.
04:34Irrationalism returns there too,
04:37so these much sharper cuts, much harder.
04:39The cut divided in two.
04:41I mean, Arnaldo took advantage of it very well,
04:44also in terms of framing,
04:46because there are these long walks of Diana,
04:48which are often profile,
04:50and a profile is one thing,
04:52and the other profile is another.
04:54In short, when I said, well, try this wig on me,
04:58and then suddenly he changed his mind.
05:00Very often we underestimate the power of the look,
05:04which above all, also in this project,
05:06for me, I had to tell Diana of the past
05:10and Diana of the present.
05:12That wig really gave me the compass right away.
05:14I mean, for me it was, here I am,
05:16I'm here, I'm in 2030,
05:18and I'm a war machine.
05:20And when I didn't have it, here I am,
05:22I'm a child.
05:24It was your armor.
05:25It was my armor, right?
05:26So, in short, it was born a little by chance,
05:29but I have to say we all fell in love immediately with that wig.