Plinio Fernando la "Mariangela di Fantozzi" ora valido scultore The second life of a man named "Mario" A famous scene in the saga of "Fantozzi" where Plinio Fernando landed a role as Marie, the daughter of the accountant
Plinio Fernando, waiting for me with a bouquet of flowers. He gallant ways and gentle eyes. It is impossible not to acknowledge the crowd, he has been in 8 movies accountant Fantozzi's daughter, the feminine archetype of ugliness, the 'monkey', as he called the evil Calboni surveyor, Mariangela.
Pliny who wore a mask to work and then threw it away with his old life. For years he knows little or nothing. Since 1993, when he turned "Fantozzi in Heaven," his farewell to the world of cinema is also ridiculous to nightgowns and caps of Mariangela. And now here it is, here, with the tie, and briefcase under his arm with photographs of his works. "Have mercy ..." I own the accountant says imitating Fantozzi.
And that line is actually a prayer, to not reduce this meeting with a description aesthetic farce, a mockery. "He wants to know what I did? What do I do now that I left the cinema? Really? Then we talk about this, my works. " Why Pliny, born in 1947, born by chance in Tunisia to Italian parents, is a sculptor, plasma human heads in clay, and forms an industrial machine, or a horse in clay with colored lacquer, gold, assault with a war of medieval catapults.
"I am passionate about the Middle Ages." Pliny smiles shyly when he speaks of his creations, even when he explains that "it is not easy to sell" and that it is still difficult to part with something that has been formed. "I also did a show and I got good reviews," he says pulling out of the folder the photos of his heads in terracotta. "There are people to whom I owe much, as the art historian and an expert on ceramics Giuliana Gardelli who encouraged me in my new job. I am grateful to people who have done me good. "
not want raids in the past, Pliny. "It was another season," he says with modesty. "It closes a parenthesis and another opens. Life is like that. " The first "brackets", the one who made it into the myth, he enclosed the experience on the big screen, the daughter of Fantozzi in fact, a form that was not easy to take off. And some day when he sees it, drew upon it to him yet. Impossible not to have the flash of that interpretation. When Marie asked, "Daddy, who was Cita?. E-Village Fantozzi replied: "Oh, well, ... Quote Quote Hayworth! It was a beautiful American actress. But I assure you that you are much ... much more beautiful than her ... Maybe. "
pieces of film history, but also pieces of the heart than of Pliny sempre è stato contento di questo successo, ad ascoltare il tono delle sue parole. «Avrei preferito una parte maschile, ma non sempre si può scegliere, in fondo era solo un ruolo, un lavoro come un altro. In fondo tutti i più grandi attori si sono vestiti da donna: da Ugo Tognazzi ne “Il vizietto”» a Tony Curtis e Jack Lemmon in “A qualcuno piace caldo”», dice adesso Plinio che, sempre con pudore e gentilezza, sottolinea come a lui piacciano le belle donne come la Fenech e la Bellucci.
Nel curriculum di Plinio anche Sturmtruppen girato nel 1976 per la regia di Salvatore Samperi. Ha tutti i dvd di Fantozzi, e ogni tanto in tv si diverte a riguardarsi «per a bit ', but then change channel. " In those days, "fantozziani" he maintained contact with Anna Mazzamauro, Miss Silvani, and Milena Vukotic, one of his mothers on the screen. The other Liu Bosisio, now she is paid to art (in addition to doubling Marge Simpson).
Di Paolo Villaggio says, "that is a good friend of labor, a great actor. On the set we were all very well together as a family. " But out of there no attendance. The last film that interprets Pliny, eighteen years ago, Fantozzi in Heaven, then retreat to private life, the shortage of roles for him and maybe even a little 'tired of life characters began as a boy with enrollment at the Academy of Performing Arts at the Stanislavsky Theatre Amphitryon. He closed the limelight in the mid 90s Pliny discovered his passion for sculpture and began studying with the masters Diotallevi and cussin. Seven years of school, physically exhausting. "I do not like improvisation, even though there is talent. Preparation is required, always. Not like that on television today, the reality becomes known people who can not do anything. I am a reality? I would not go, I do not like to expose myself if not for anything serious. "
Like his sculptures, exhibited a few years ago in an exhibition at Via dei Serpenti Rome. It is not easy to interpret this bashful ladies and gentleman who presented with two bouquets of flowers. Is jealous of his private, does not leak much, if not who has two sisters who are very attached. He takes the phone, dials and talks to one of them. "Do you step," he says. And on the other hand, the voice of a woman explains that "the brother is a fantastic person, very generous." A call between the lines, not to betray him, not to make it even a speck, so far from the truth Pliny. "Have mercy ..." says the first to greet him with that gentle smile and a bit 'sad.
source: Maria Corbi by lastampa.it
