From the Venice Film Festival, Pierfrancesco Favino launches an appeal and asks to "create a system" so that the Italian characters in the films are interpreted by Italian actors. The battle of the actor-protagonist of the film "Comandante" – which opened the 2023 film festival – concerns the way in which foreign cinema looks at Italy in terms of stereotypes. "Gucci had the New Jersey accent, didn't you know?", he says ironically on the sidelines of the meeting for Stefano Sollima's "Adagio", citing Ridley Scott's production "House of Gucci". But, now, to make Favino blurt out is the film Ferrari by Michael Mann where Adam Driver plays the owner of the famous racing team. "There is a theme of cultural appropriation, it is not clear why not me but actors of this level – underlines the actor addressed to colleagues in the film Toni Servillo, Adriano Giannini, Valerio Mastandrea – are not involved in this kind of film that instead entrust foreign actors far from the real protagonists of the stories, starting with the exotic accent". The theme very much felt in the States, for Favino should in fact be transferred to Italy. "If a Cuban can't make a Mexican, why can an American make an Italian? Only from us. Ferrari in other eras would have done it Gassman, but today Driver does it and nobody says anything. It seems to me an attitude of contempt towards the Italian system, if these are the common laws then we also participate", he concludes. (Photo by Enrico De Luigi)