Supersex, the cast: real characters and actors from the Netflix series

DSee you tomorrow it’s finally available Supersexhighly anticipated series Netflix with Alessandro Borghi in the role of Rocco Siffredi, the most famous Italian porn star in the world. Written by Francesca Manieri and directed by Matteo Rovere, Francesca Mazzoleni and Francesco Carrozzini, it consists of seven episodes freely inspired – between melodrama, crime and pornographic sets – by the life of Siffredi (real name Rocco Tano).

The parable starts from a humble childhood in Ortonain Abruzzo, and takes the young man to Paris, where at 18 Rocco goes to live with his brother Tommaso (Adriano Giannini). And Lucia, his partner – and Rozzo’s childhood love. Between Pigalle and the swingers’ clubs, the young man discovers his true vocation, which puts him in conflict with the idea of ​​love (which is unknown) and that of a classic relationship with a woman.

Over the course of the series, mythical characters appear such as Moana Pozzi And Gabriel Pontello – a very well played underground and mainstream team from the porn world. Noticeably absent: Cicciolina.

Supersexthe cast of the Netflix series: actors and real characters

Alessandro Borghi – Rocco Siffredi

Born in Ortona in 1964, Rocco Tano Since he was a child he developed a single obsession: sex. The triggering reason is the casual discovery of Supersexlegendary magazine of pornographic photo novels centered on the character of the same name played by Gabriel Pontello.

Raised in a large family, marked by the premature death of his brother Claudio, Rocco, after some experience in the Merchant Navy, at 18 he flew to Paris to work as a waiter in his brother’s restaurant. There, in the hard Parisian clubs of the early 1980s, he meets his idol Pontello who, amazed by the mammoth dimensions, opens the doors of the red light sets to him. And the rest is history.

Taking on the role of Rocco is a very good Alessandro Borghi – while the teenage Rocco is played by Saul Nanni. On the relationship created with Siffredi during the making of the series, in a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival Borghi declared «He has always been close to me, he opened the doors of his home to me, he supported me. The risk was to make an imitation, while I wanted to capture the truth. This is a series created to create a debate, however generate a discussion». For the full frontal scenes Borghi did not use a stunt double.

Moana Pozzi – Gaia Messerklinger

Quintessential 80s porn star, Moana Pozzi meets Siffredi in Rome in 1987, thanks to Riccardo Schicchi and, in addition to a fruitful professional relationship, a beautiful friendship is also born. As Siffredi recalled in numerous interviews, not least the one at Corriere della Sera some weeks ago.

In the series, and in life, Moana was the only colleague to understand Rocco’s torments and to become familiar with him. «I was the only actor he let into his room while of the others he said «These are all crazy. He seemed there by chance, so elegant and sensitive, but it was professional at the highest level. Maybe she just wanted to be known and Riccardo Schicchi made her famous. She is the one who suffered the most.”

In fact in the series, in one of the most touching moments, Siffredi tells her «You don’t like sex», and Moana replies «Let’s keep it our secret». In SupersexMoana is played by Gaia Messerklinger, actress of Austrian origin famous for his participation in A ladies’ paradise.

Riccardo Schicchi – Vincenzo Nemolato

Former photographer and war reporter, At the beginning of the Eighties, Riccardo Schicchi founded, together with Ilona Staller, Future Divathe first porn agency that deals with casting and production of hard films. The famous stable included Staller, Moana Pozzi, Milly D’Abbraccio and Eva Henger who subsequently married Schicchi in the mid-nineties.

It is thanks to Schicchi that Siffredi debuts in Italian pornmore precisely in the film Fantastic Moana from 1987, as seen at the end of the third episode. For Rocco, Schicchi was it a sort of professional “father”.as he often declared, and until the end of the decade – before moving to the United States – it will be thanks to Schicchi that the name Siffredi will become famous in the world of hardcore.

Passed away prematurely in 2012Schicchi is played by Vincenzo Nemolato, Neapolitan actor seen in many important films. As The tale of tales by Matteo Garrone, Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello e The chimera by Alice Rohrwacher.

Rosa Caracciolo – Nutsa Khubulava

Hungarian actress and modelRosa – born Rózsa Tassi – is Rocco’s wife and life partner for over thirty years. The two they met in Cannes in May 1993 when the girl is a hostess during the Hot d’or, a ceremony that awards prizes to the world of porn cinema. Siffredi is not only in France to receive an award but also to shoot the film The bodyguardhard version of Bodyguard with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston.

The chosen actress drops out of the production at the last minute and Rocco proposes to Rosa to replace her. Played in the series by Georgian actress Nutsa Khubulava – newcomer – he accepts on one condition: the sex scenes must be exclusively with him. Love is born on set and a few months later the two get married.

Rosa until 1997, she works together with her husband in other hardcore films, then abandons porn and becomes full-time mother of their two sons: Leonardo and Lorenzothe latter fresh competitor of dancing with the Stars.

Gabriel Pontello – Johann Dionnet

Pontello was a Friulian father and a Moroccan mother one of the first European porn starsvery famous already at the end of the seventies. Very famous in Italy thanks to the hard photo novel Supersex – Where embodied a “porno-extraterrestrial”Pontello is remembered for the phrase “Ifix tcen tcen!” who screamed in the magazine’s cartoons during ejaculation.

In 1984, in a red light club in Paris, Siffredi met Gabriel Pontello which opened the doors of porn to him by introducing him to the producer Marc Dorcel and the director Michel Ricaud. Even if, as we see in the series, for Rocco the debut in hardcore will be disastrous in many ways. To the point of abandoning the business and move to London to be a model.

In the series, Pontello is played by the talented Johann Dionnetfilm and TV actor who appeared in successful titles such as the Netflix series Lupine and the movie The night of the 12th.

Franco Caracciolo – Mario Pirrello

Of aristocratic origins and actor for Federico Fellini in films such as Satyricon and RomaCaracciolo becomes a celebrity in the 1980s.

Thanks to Renzo Arbore and its legendary program All back! Where, disguised as a chicken, he was part of the dance troupe of the beautiful and sexy valleys “Ragazze Coccodè”. A great friend of Siffredi, Caracciolo is the one who understands how to overcome Rocco’s prejudices, opening his eyes to the world and quickly becoming the his best friend and confidant. Until his premature death from AIDS in 1992. And, to pay homage to him, when Rocco does future wife Rosa making her debut in hardcorein 1994, he will choose Caracciolo as her “art surname” for her.

In Supersex, Franco is played by character actor Mario Pirrelloa face known thanks to important fiction such as Commissioner Ricciardi.

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