cshort appeals, an intense gaze that pierces the screen and a melancholy expression to tell the charoscuri of the life of “grown-ups”. Giordana Marengo is the protagonist of the new Netflix series, The lying life of adultstaken from the novel by Elena Ferrante. At the his first appearance on TVis ready to make her loved Joanna hungry for dreams and hopes in an ambivalent context like that of Naples in the nineties.
Who is Giordana Marengo
The young actress was born in the Campania capital and here she obtained a high school diploma in human sciences at the Mazzini high school. Among her passions are artistic gymnastics, the piano and photos (especially in black and white) that she periodically publishes on her account instagram.
Giordana’s big bet
A female portrait in a city of a thousand faces: recounting the transition from childhood to adolescence of your character is certainly a challenge. The discovery of a different world under the guise of a perfect life, the birth of new friendships and an affection denied for too long, become for Joanna (Giordana Marengo) aopportunity for growth. A story in which she seems to have found herself, as she told al Corriere della Sera.
Marengo revealed her early difficulties in acting while keeping emotion at bay. Working alongside highly experienced actors was not easy. She confirmed, however, that she was immediately put at ease with her and that she was treated with great kindness. In the role of the character, however, she immediately fell into the Giovanna Trada many elements in common.
Giordana Marengo (ANSA/CLAUDIO PERI)
The lying life of adults: plot, cast and curiosities
There Netflix series It’s composed by 6 episodes lasting about an hour each. Directed by Edoardo de Angelis, it was written by Elena Ferrante, Laura Paolucci, Francesco Piccolo and Edoardo De Angelis. In the cast, in addition to Giordana Marengo There are also Valeria Golino and Alessandro Preziosi. For those who loved My Brilliant Friend (taken from the Ferrante quadrilogy whose last chapter is awaited on Rai 1, also The lying life of adults it is a story of social redemption in a context that fluctuates between ostentatious well-being and extreme poverty.
Joanna (Giordana Marengo) grew up in “good” Naples, attends a high school in Vomero and lives a life dominated by a mask of wealth and hypocrisy. When the father Andrew (Alessandro Preziosi) compares her to her sister Victory (Valeria Golino), erased from the family and considered a woman with strange ideas and on the verge of madness, the girl decides she wants to know more. She will discover that she likes that aunt after all and intrigues her.
From Giordana to Giovanna: a student turned actress
Giordana Marengo she didn’t expect to become famous in such a short time and hadn’t even foreseen pursuing this glamorous career. Her arrival in her series was completely random, thanks to an idea of a friend of her mother who, having learned about the series, sent a photo of her girl proposing her for a casting.
So he started with the auditions, even if the encounter with the was decisive Edoardo De Angelis who understood its potential, helping her to be herself and to better enjoy the experience. In a short time, she entered this unknown world feeling at home and working with serenity. This is also thanks to her friendship with Valeria Golino with whom they strengthened each other: Valeria ventured into a role where the language was the protagonist of the scene and had to be impeccable, Jordanian learned a trade. Experience, however, does not seem to have changed her and she appears simple, not artificial, in interviews but above all on the social networks she uses without taking itself too seriously with the spirit for which they were born: to give a moment of lightness and detachment from the real world.
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