TOOther than «One, two, three» as in the refrain of Bath at midnight, for Elodie (32 years old) the count of successes, awards, some satisfactions are reaching Bulgarian plebiscite figures. Yesterday, the Silvana Mangano prize as best actress revelation of the year al Bif&st Bari Film Festival For I eat your heart. Today a candidacy for the Best Original Song for Bulletssong also contained in the film Pippo Mezzapesathe singer’s debut at the cinema – and at the Venice Film Festival 2022, Horizons section – with the role of Marilena Camporeale, first repentant of the Gargano mafia.
The plate was handed over to her by Pippo himself, from Puglia from Bitonto. while she, in a gorgeous two-tone Valentinoyellow and cream that immediately made you imagine ice cream and summer afternoontook the stage obviously excited, running a little with train in hand yet regal. “I wasn’t expecting it – she then said in the midst of a Hollywood crowd of flashes, microphones and mobile phones – it’s incredible, life gives you great surprises”.
Undoubtedly, and the thought turns to fatigue of Quartaccio’s ex-girlfriend in getting out of a difficult reality, in finding an identity and a representative trait in music. Not simple.
But for three years she has been standing confident, and sometimes insecure – you can see it well in I still feel dizzy on Prime Video, his first docu-series -, among the most listened to, watched, admired Italian singers. One of the few with an international urban allure, attention to every step and a very healthy – aggressive – inscrutabilityas a distant diva despite the horizontal era of social media.
Elodie, music or cinema?
And what will he do now, after being sure that he has done a good job on the set? Will you alternate one shot in San Remo with another in front of the cameras? She will become our Jennifer Lopez queen of two charts. There are few singers to whom she fared well on both fronts: Lopez, in fact, then Streisand and the two Oscars, obviously, Madonna instead had few highs and countless lows, Diana Ross first role first nomination with The lady of the bluesand then a rapid decline.
Among the recent is doing very well to Lady Gaganow on the set of Joker: Folie à Deux with Joaquin Phoenix. Ascertained that Italian cinema is not Hollywood, and that here they don’t shoot scripts like A star is bornyou can still have some satisfactions, choosing well.
Elodie at the Bari Film Festival 2023. (Getty Images)
You see I eat your heartfor which Elodie told Venice that «At first I thought it was a pretentious role for me, but it was a great opportunity to confront something deeper than to entertainment music. I needed new, deeper vibrations».
«Better Sanremo or the set?», a reporter therefore inevitably asked her. “Both,” she replied. However: «First the music, then maybe, if there will be an opportunity, it will be great to be back on set». Understandable.
Meanwhile, maybe has launched a trend among colleagues: next to the debut in a film there is Georgiawith Forgot of (and with) Rocco Papaleo (releases April 13). And in the meantime, come on Louis LoCascio (spread by her beauty when she presented him with the Federico Fellini Platinum Award in the evening, mistaking him for Bennato at the beginning) the desire has arrived of a couple moviepossibly directed by Pippo Mezzapesa.
How, after all, not to film Elodie.
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