When Whoopi Goldberg tells his lifedoes not only do it with the voice of a award -winning artist, but with the soul of those who learned to find strength in their roots and diversity of the family. Sitting on the velvets of the Hotel San Domenico, a former Dominican convent that knows of history and silences, reveals his world made of even hard memories, funny encounters, maxims of life. “The artists are not afraid, create and offer their art in the world, without borders,” he says to touch the Taobuk theme. What borders do you want you to have one who, born in a poor neighborhood in New York, has earned His first money by putting on the dead and then becoming one of the nineteen people in the world “Egot”acronym to indicate those artists who won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony?
Nobody, for family education: «I stood to hear, my mother Emma told me one day, the boundaries of this neighborhood do not represent the boundaries of your life. You can go where you want, do and become what you want. Whatever you choose to be, be yourself». He obeyed, and All herself has put in the biography “fragments of memory”published in Italy by Longanesi: “Writing my book was a journey backwards – he confides – he made me think of all those little things I missed, I seemed to go back to being with the family, I understood how the family, in its strangeness, saved me and helped me to become myself, to dodge the compromises of life”.
It swaying between the weight of the memories and the hidden (but not too) strength of the affections. «Mom has never been a person who has imposed himself by ordering me to do things, he always pushed me to think independently. I have always seen a wonderful person in her, as wonderful my brother Clyde was, my hero. Unfortunately, I lost both. However I have the certainty of not having left anything in suspense: I told them a thousand times to love them, and they did the same. You too do not be purged with your feelings: we live so uncertain times … ».
He laughs when the surreal meeting with Marlon Brando recalls: «My agent calls me and tells me that Marlon Brando wanted to meet me. I tell him to make an appointment, of course. I go out to take a walk and, on the way back, I hear the sound of my piano: it was he, Brando, sitting there to strum. So he commented on my amazement: “I didn’t want to wait until next week. And here I am.” I introduced him to his mother and Clyde and when he went away all three we started running around the house, celebrating for that unexpected visit ».
A strange dream crosses Whoopi’s mind: “I would like to star in a horror movie, I like those films that terrorizewho make you pant but have nothing to do with sex ». Oh well, but we wait for “sister act 3”: “It does not depend on me, there is also the script but they tell us nothing. Write to Disney to solicit … “.
He doesn’t want to talk about politics because he is on vacation – by the way, Whoopi has a home in Ortigia and tries to learn Italian – but of the American bombs on Iran says disconsolate: “I have no more words”. And certainly not why the time agreed for the interview was exhausted … The actress then long dialogue with Viviana Mazza, correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, and signed copies and autographs for a multitude of readers and readers.
And another crowded meeting was the one with Pierfrancesco Favino, who received the Taobuk Awards on Saturday And yesterday he dialogue in Piazza IX Aprile with the journalist Federico Pontiggia. «The boundaries are only mental. We have the possibility, if we peacefully ask ourselves who the others are, of not being afraid of them ». «Every time we interpret someone, whether it is real or imaginary, betraying is inevitable. But that’s where the spectator’s freedom is born. Those who choose this profession do it because they are not afraid of being something different from themselves. Wearing someone else’s shoes, as the Anglo -Saxons say, makes you understand that the road is full of possible destinies. In each of those crossroads there are the lives of others. And yours too ».
Among the meetings of yesterday also the one with Monica Guerritore, Award for the cinemawho dialogue with Federico Pontiggia: «We give body to emotions. But when we interpret real people, we have to go down the surface, look for the deep breath of a truth, even if not exact ». Speaking of her work on Anna Magnani: «It is an attempt to give her a voice. For us women it is also a way of looking at another femininity, which she has tried to impose ».