Francesca Fagnaniprotagonist of BeastsRai’s revelation show, is told a Vanity Fair without screens: the relationship with the mother, its beginnings, hypochondria, prison, its success and love “which is never forever”.
And on the cover she poses with her two dogs, Bice and Nina: «Nina is 4 years old, Bice 3. I wanted them both to be females: and I made a big mistake, because they become attached to the male».
The presenter of the year also comments on Fabio Fazio’s farewell to Rai, and on private matters, she who is used to asking questions, tells something more about herself: from the medical consultations at dinner with Verdone to her greatest fears: illness. And boredom: «Because it’s boredom that scares me. Women usually say: I’m looking for someone to make me laugh. Me, on the other hand, someone who gets my jokes. If you don’t understand them, you have killed eros. It’s the end”.
What do you think of Fabio Fazio’s farewell to Rai after 40 years?
«It is a loss for Rai but not for viewers, fortunately, who will find it on another network. There is now so much on offer: those who know how to work will never be left out».
Maybe we should change the minds of those who decide the programs and those who cut heads that work in Rai…
«In television there is little courage. And it does not depend on the conductors but on the managers who should invest in new faces and reward more the merit of the parishes.
What does his success have to do with?
«With courage. You see, unlike my private life, it’s in my professional life that I’m brave. Prime time on tv for Beasts it was offered to me a month and a half before the broadcast. The truth is that no one wanted to go to that space because there were, in order, the Champions League, three news programmes, a fiction and at a certain point even Hyenas. Only the Apocalypse was missing. I believe that in life you have to play it: I did it with a program of only words without services, without photos, without ballets. She did well.”
Her mother said that as a child she resembled a delinquent.
«My mother used to call me “Angel face” because she recognized my cleverness. And because my image was the opposite of my character».
Does it look like her?
“It impresses me because many of the things I couldn’t stand about my mother today I find all the same in me”.
An example?
“The silliest thing? I couldn’t hold her when she insisted on having coffee only if the saucer was there. Today, if they make me have coffee without a saucer, I’ll make a scene. And then there are more serious things: you have experienced very strong personal events and you have had the ability to react ».
Do you want to talk about it?
“But how is it done? It would seem like a betrayal to me because she is no longer here. But I want to talk about one thing: after the separation from my father, an episode that made her suffer a lot, she fell seriously ill and he returned to live with her, to assist her, 24 hours a day until the end».
What was his mother suffering from?
“Lung cancer. My father had returned to assist and treat her.
What was it like to see them together again?
“Moving, because she was only looking for him. From the bedroom, she called only to him. I was ten when they separated and at school I was a little ashamed of what had happened. But she, with her generosity, managed to establish a rapport with him such that there were no issues of the weekend, who she was with whom, or for how long. I always hoped you would bequeath that strength of character to me.’
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«I admire their strength and the lucidity they have to think of such right words, so profound to describe what they are going through. But sickness is my biggest fear. I can’t even think of myself in that condition. It’s the thing that scares me the most in the world.”
And what do you think of a certain political class that uses hatred to create consensus?
“I think the worst. But more than hate, which concerns a noisy minority, even on social media, the language of fear scares me. Fear is a powerful feeling that accompanies everyone. And anyone who leverages fear is unacceptable. They won the elections by leveraging fear. The fear of the different, of the new. You can’t think that
let the immigrants take away the job. You can’t tell. You can’t create war between the poor.”
He says he is a mountain lover because it lowers people’s egos.
«You feel like it. Starting with mine.”
How do you lower people’s egos?
“For example, not making them feel like rock stars when they come home.”
Since it is she who is talking about Enrico, I ask her a question: who gave the first kiss?
“He. In the elevator. Greeting me. It was unexpected.”
His words: “Love is like the Giro d’Italia, you win in stages”. Has she ever fallen?
“Yes. And it’s not bad. Because I find it hard to believe in love forever. How do you want the same person over the years, even forever? When love goes well it falls, it transforms. When things go wrong, we leave immediately or leave later».
(In the pictureturtleneck and pants, Ferragamo. Rings and earrings in white gold and diamonds, Bulgarians. Service Dawn Samson. Make-up Chiara Corsaletti using Armani Beauty. Hair Katia Vulcano).
Source: Vanity Fair
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