“I cried so far, it’s not easy, although unfortunately we all knew that the end was close,” he says Ornella Muti with the broken voice remembering Eleonora Giorgi. “I saw her a short time ago, she was full of courage, smiles, strength, empathy. There are so many people who make the victim with the disease, they become bad, whining, and instead it has always reached everyone an encouragement, a smile, to the point of making you feel bad”.
«A little over a month ago – says Muti to Ansa – I was at the presentation of Andrea’s book (the son Andrea Rizzoli who wrote for Piemme there is no good news, editor’s note, dedicated to the last, difficult year of the mother), in Rome. Eleonora hadn’t told me anything, she warned me a common friend. I took a train, I made the devil four to be there. As soon as he saw me he said to me: ‘I can’t believe it, you came for me, you didn’t have to! I didn’t let you know anything because I didn’t want to bother you. ‘ Here, I will always keep this lightness with me, this fund of hope that gave ourselves and all of us. I think in particular of the two children, Andrea and Paolo, who were next to her fantasticly, and to the grandchild Gabriele who loved a lot ».
The first steps together, fifty years ago, on the set of Gianluigi Calderone’s Melò Melò (1974), launched by the Press Agent Enrico Lucherini Also with the tricks of the rivalry between the two actresses, young divers from the 80s. “We were small … I admired her, Eleonora was smart, she spoke of politics, I thought how she is her pussy, I wouldn’t be able to be there,” Sighs Ornella Muti. «Then she directed me (in 2003 in your director’s debut film, Men & Women, Amori & Bugie, ed) and above all we were months Together to shoot the TV series The uncle of America, directed by Rossella Izzo. He was a great person, very generous, not envious, he never rose at all and for anyone. He had a big head, he was very intelligent, sensitive, clean, without frills, present to herself. She was always there, with the mind and heart ».