TO 80 years old Giancarlo Giannini gets one of the proofs of his status as a cinema great: a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is located at number 6361, a few meters from the intersection with Vine Street. For Italy it is the seventeenth star. The second to a actorafter Rudolph Valentino in 1960. The ceremony was held on Monday 6 March.
Giancarlo Giannini, dedicates it to Lina Wertmüller
“I’m very happy. This star will shine in the sky from today », she declared during the ceremony. «I thank Hollywood, where I am much loved, perhaps more than in Italy». In fact, Giancarlo Giannini is at home in Hollywood. It was 1977 when his Pasqualino Settebellezze – protagonist of the homonymous film – got him the Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
«I dedicate it to Lina (Wertmüller, ed), who looks down on me and waits for me. Maybe up there we will make other films together, even more beautiful», he added. «I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have her to value me. We used to come here with movie pizzas under our arms to show them to a local producer. he was a genius, unfortunately little appreciated in Italy », he told ANSA.
The partnership with the director who died in 2021 began in 1966 with Rita the mosquitoand then continue with Metallurgist Mimì wounded in honor, Film of love and anarchy, Overwhelmed by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August, Pasqualino Seven Beauties, The end of the world in our usual bed on a rainy night And Fact of blood between two men because of a widow. Political motives are suspectedfrom 1978.
Giancarlo Giannini receives the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Getty Images)
Career in Hollywood
A career in which he alternated cinema, theater and dubbing. His is the voice of some of the greatest actors ever. Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Gerard Depardieu, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Gere, Jeremny Irons, Harvey Keitel, Ryan O’Neal and Kevin Spacey.
Between movie of international appeal, New York Stories by Francis Ford Coppola The scent of wild must by Alfonso Arau e Hannibal by Ridley Scottwith which he wins the Winner of a Silver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actor. They follow Man on fire by Tony Scott and two chapters of the saga of James Bond: Casino Royale of 2006 and Quantum of Solace of 2008, in which he plays the secret agent René Mathis.
Giancarlo Giannini is added to the other Italian artists already awarded of the prestigious award. These are: Luciano Pavarotti, Lina Wertmüller, Gina Lollobrigida, Ennio Morricone, Andrea Bocelli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sophia LorenEnrico Caruso, Arturo Toscanini, Renata Tebaldi, Beniamino Gigli, Anna Magnani, Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, Enzo Pinza and Lucia Albanese. In addition to the aforementioned Rudolph Valentino.
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