Maria Chiara Giannetta leaves the role of Blanca to interpret Electric Rosean on-the-road thriller series, signed by his partner Davide Marengo, available from today on Sky and streaming on Now. Rosa is a young agent of the Witness Protection Programresponsible for escorting Cocìss, baby boss of the Camorra.
When she discovers that something doesn’t add up in the operation, the policewoman decides to escape with the repentant through Italy. From that moment both become targets: they can’t trust anyone but each other. Will it be enough to save themselves? The series is freely based on the novel of the same name by Giampaolo Simi.
Electric Rose Sky TV series plot, episodes, cast, actress
Rosa Valera (Maria Chiara Giannetta) is thirty years old and she loves electronic music: this is why she is nicknamed Elettrica. She has chronic cystitis and is haunted by a little inner voice (played by Margherita Pantaleo) that constantly reminds her how her choices are always wrong: the sense of inadequacy is never shaken off.
Rosa is a young Witness Protection agent, still without experience in the field when she is entrusted with a task as unexpected as it is dangerous: to take care of Cocìss (Francesco Di Napoli), an unstable and violent baby boss belonging to the Incantalupo clan.
Hunted by enemies and suspected of a murder that could spark a war between clans, Cocìss chooses to collaborate with justice to avoid an imminent death. The management of the case, however, immediately presents some dark sides: the decision to entrust it to Rosa, taken by the deputy commissioner Reja (Elena Lietti) in front of the well-known anti-mafia magistrate Paolo D’Intrò, it appears difficult to explain.
Determined to prove her worth, Rosa accepts the challenge. But when the situation gets complicated and the orders she receives start to seem suspicious, she is forced to make a risky choice: trust official indications or follow your intuition. He decides to act instinctively and save Cocìss from a destiny that already seems sealed.
“Electric Rose”. (Courtesy press office)
From that moment everything changes. Thus began a tight escape through Italy. Isolated and without certainties, Rosa can’t count on anyone: neither her superiors nor her colleagues. The only person at his side is the very one he is supposed to supervise. The two are chased by organized crime and by those who, theoretically, should protect them. To survive they are forced to collaborate.
Maria Chiara Giannetta: «I dug into my insecurities to find the character of Rosa»
Maria Chiara Giannetta told the story of the path that led her to find Rosa. «I dug inside myselfin the me of a few years ago, when I arrived in Rome for the first time. Like the protagonist, I was an insecure girl who had difficulty making choices. Rosa has a lot in common with the girls of my generation.”
Like the policewoman, the actress also has an inner voice. «Since I’ve been going to therapy it’s been better but we shouldn’t pretend it doesn’t exist. It must be accepted and managed.” The I travel with Cociss «it will trigger an internal journey that will force Rosa to confront her own fragilities and with a part of himself left suspended”, says Giannetta.
Electric Rose: cast and characters
Rosa must escort the repentant, called Cocìss (Francesco Di Napoli), rising star of one of the most powerful Neapolitan clans, earning the title of street boss thanks to drug dealing. He is paranoid and aggressive due to excessive cocaine use.
Elena Lietti plays Antonella Reja, deputy commissioner and head of the Protection Operations Unit Witnesseswhere Rosa works, while Francesco Toti is Paolo D’Intrò, Deputy Prosecutor of Naples, a leading figure in the fight against organized crime. Antonia Truppo plays the role of Nunzia Serafino, nicknamed “Mamma Camorra”, a powerful boss of the Incantalupo clan, of which Cocìss is a member. Feared and respected by all of Naples, she administers the city thanks to her role as councillor.
Maria Chiara Giannetta. (Sky)
Where it was filmed Electric Rose: the locations
Electric Rose is an on-the-road series that crosses Italy: from Emilia-Romagna to Campania, from Trentino-Alto Adige to Lazio. Filming took place in places such as the Po Delta Park, Comacchio, Copparo, Ravenna and Ferrara. The headquarters of Witness Protection was set in the Town Hall of Ferrara.
In Naples, however, it ranges from the rationalist architecture of the Ponti Rossi building to the alleys of Piazza Mercato, from Posillipo to the port area of San Giovanni, from Teduccio to Piazza Matteotti and Piazza Monteoliveto. In Trentino-Alto Adige, however, Maria Chiara Giannetta and Di Napoli move from Merano to Val d’Ultimo.