CHiara Ferrara. «In these days there are enthusiastic applause: the sensitivity is high after the recent feminicides and after the sentence according to which Filippo Turetta has inflicted 75 stabbed to Giulia Cecchettin not for cruelty but for” inexperience “! In the end there are those who get up and sing with us El Violador Eres Tú (written by a Chilean feminist collective, ed.). But in some square of the tour have been there Gentlemen who complained by claiming “Patriarchate does not exist”or high school groups that – to the matinée for schools – found it easier to laugh or joke when we talk about the chief dynamics … people are still felt directly involved in the complaint made through the show “.
Well yes, Wonder Woman by Antonio Latella (at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan from May 5) never leaves indifferent and Chiara Ferrara, one of the four protagonists, continues by telling the effect she had on her: “I struck me that I tried a sense of guilt for not having paid attention to this disconcerting episode of the news at the time.” We are (almost) all in its own condition: who remembers in detail The group rape that a young Peruvian in the Marche was victims in 2015? Yet we should, in particular for the sensational initial sentence: accused acquitted because the girl was “too masculine” (the “test”? One of them had recorded her on the mobile phone as “Viking”). Yet we should, since the judges were three women …
Do we have news of the victim today?
No. We do not know identity, we only know that the father left Italy for the “brand” and that the Peruvian community of his city, in the province of Ancona, has almost halved. The Cassation condemned two of the rapists, but the case is not yet in complete light. Hence the idea of Latella and co -author, Federico Bellini, to evoke the figure of Wonder Woman, the first super heroine of history, a champion of justice created in 1941 by the psychologist William Multon Marston. That, not surprisingly, was also the inventor of the truth machine ».
Chiara Ferrara, 26 years old. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome, he already has on his assets in Skam and international films. Photo: Francesco Marino
Chiara Ferrara is one Wonder Woman
The most difficult aspect of staging?
This river of words that for over an hour floods us and floods the spectators. A continuous flow: we alternate in the roles of the various parts involved in the process. The room lights remain atypically lit and the public is an integral part of the representation: when we embody the judges it becomes the victim, when we embody the victim becomes a executioner.
How did you prepare for such a demanding role?
Going from the psychologist, and with the support of friends: it is a huge, physical and mental load. I remember that at the beginning of the tests I had a fever at 40, and I never happen to have a fever. This performance led to transform me into a Wonder Woman of humility and strength. It was and continues to be a path of growth and awareness of me as an actress, of me as a woman. A path of empowerment.
Who are the Wonder Woman For your generation?
Michela Murgia, for example. When I missed I cried a lot: it was a reference for the determination, for shamelessness, for not feeling the need to justify or ask for permission, as often happens to us women. My grandmother Elvira is also a Wonder Woman.
Chiara Ferrara in Wonder Woman. (photo Andrea Macchia)
Why?
He is 88 years old and a wonderful vital energy. He crossed the war by remaining half a deaf (he exploded a nearby bomb), he has seen any color and gives the charge to me, which I have not faced anything comparable. As a saving of the mobile phone I have a photo of him while putting the lipstick in front of the mirror.
By now, Chiara is a habituée of intense roles: in Who like me By Andrée Ruth Shammah – always sold out at the Parenti Theater in 2024 – Alma, bipolar teenager
In the autumn it will return to the bill … I believe that the secret has been touching the theme of mental disorders, which today involve many of my peers: we lived Covid, we were closed in the house in contact exclusively with ourselves.
And with social networks.
Yes, a fake reality. We are no longer used to a concrete exchange which, in my opinion, leads us to have more scudi, to lose spontaneity. In fact in Who like me It was precisely starting from the encounter with the others that from time to time the boys managed to unlock.
Did he resonate something in particular in his character?
Alma, when it has its maniac-depressive episodes, is a self-harm, it gets cuts. Fortunately, I had no experience of “material” self -harm, but mental yes: that inner voice that whispers to me “you are not up to par” and makes me difficult to express my problems. Is Wonder Woman is Who like me They gave me a lot, they strengthened me: I came from a period very demanding of eating disorders and I managed to overcome them. I feared that impersonating Alma, in particular, would damage me: instead I understood that, to bring her to the stage, I had to take care of her and, therefore, take care of me.
Chiara Ferrara and, from the left, Maria Chiara Arrighini, Beatrice Verzotti, Giulia Heathfield by Renzi in Wonder Woman by Antonio Latella, from 5 May to the Piccolo in Milan. (photo Andrea Macchia)
The very first click to act?
I vivid it! As a child, I am intrigued, but it was like saying: “When I grow up I want to be a princess!”. In the second year of high school, however, they led us to Syracuse to see the Agamemnon and there was the actress who impersonated Cassandra, Giovanna Di Rauso, who rolled in the sand, shouted … It was a very strong feeling, I had a total imprinting.
And at that point? Does it come from a family of artists?
No, absolutely: my father is a non -commissioned officer (for his work I attended elementary school in New York, and then return to Rome), my mother is employed state. Finite the superiors I immediately tried the admission exam to the Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D’Amico: I was not admitted. I enrolled in philosophy, but the following year I was taken. I went out in 2021.
In just four years he has already accumulated a nice curriculum, including the series Skam And Another End by Piero Messina, with Bérénice Bejo and Gael García Bernal.
Gael has an incredible humanity! I didn’t want to behave as a young curious actress, but was it so helpful that I asked: “When did you start getting your hand, to feel comfortable in your job?”. “When I had my son. At 31 years old.”
Projects?
Zvanì by Giuseppe Piccioni, on the story of Giovanni Pascoli, will soon come out, and an English series will arrive, Iris, and God’s Soldier that I shot in Thailand with Billy Baldwyn.
Do you see the cinema in its future?
The theater is certainly home, the ground on which I hope to walk for life. However, enriching it with lessons learned from the set …
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