The Venice Film Festival is right about the corner and we’ll have our first look at Chris Pine in his first italian speaking role in a movie in “The Kidnapping of Arabella”. In an interview with The Playlist, director Carolina Cavalli tells about how she cast Chris in the movie and more. Check it out:
The Playlist: Allow me to be the first person to ask this question before you get asked it about a thousand times. How did you get Chris Pine to star in this movie, and how did you know he could speak Italian, I think, fluently?
Carolina Cavalli: Yes, he’s fluent. I heard he wanted to act in a different language in Italian specifically. So when my agents put me in touch with him, I thought he just maybe wanted to talk about acting in Italian or the industry or how it is shooting in Italian. I wasn’t immediately understood that maybe he could have been interested in playing a character in this film. And then when I realized it, I was very happy about it, and yeah, this is how it happened. And his Italian is good.
Did he have to read the script before he said yes?
When I understood that maybe there was a chance for him to play this character, I immediately asked him, “Can I send you the script?” He read it, and then it happened that he was in Rome when we were having rehearsals in this small, small theater in Rome. And he came, we tried together the part, and his Italian was great, and in the end he told me, “Listen, I want to do it.” And I was very happy.
So you were in rehearsals. Were you still waiting to cast this part up to the beginning of filming? Was this last-minute?
It was a very last-minute casting process for a couple of roles. One was this, and the other one was Granatina [Eva Robin’s], because they’re both very difficult for me, because they’re short, but I would say intense roles. So, I was looking for a very specific actor or actress to play these roles. And I think Chris was perfect for this.
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