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Giuseppe Bonifati in the movie “Ferrari” with Penelope Cruz, in competition in Venice Film Festival: “Fantastic experience”
The Calabrian actor also created “Det Flyvende Teater / The Flying Theater”, a new performance and entertainment format for airports, now in Denmark and soon in Italy.
VENICE – Giuseppe Bonifati is among the stars of Ferrari, which will have its world premiere and competition at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. The film, directed by Michael Mann, will be released in U.S. theaters on December 25. Bonifati plays Giacomo Cuoghi, a friend and colleague of Enzo Ferrari, the entrepreneur who created the iconic automobile. The film stars Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penelope Cruz as his wife, Laura Ferrari.
Regarding the experience on the set, the actor says it was “enriching”, “I would almost say a master class, where I was able to work with a director who is meticulous about every detail: the posture, the tension of a gesture or how to grasp an object in a way that is not obvious. It is also admirable that Michael Mann was able to make a film that he had wanted to make for at least 20 years”.
On the set with Ridley Scott. Bonifati previously worked on Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World and the BBC US series with Tom Hollander. Among his most original recent projects, after The Arty Party and Artbulanza, is Det Flyvende Teater/The Flying Theater. “It is a unique format in the world, which started as a two-year pilot project at Billund Airport (Denmark, ed.). Since last February, we have even set up a studio theater. With our crew of actors, singers and dancers, we interact like an airline with passengers from all over the world. We surprise them with unique artistic experiences: performances and works at gates, terminals and baggage claim. There are events such as theater or dance performances in the hangars. Recently, one of our special versions of Anton Chekhov’s opera The Seagull was performed. Flying Theater is also presented in hangars at other national and international airports and festivals (such as in Timisoara, European Capital of Culture), and will tour several countries in Scandinavia this fall, with plans to continue in Europe and Italy next year.
Present works and future projects. Bonifati, born in 1985 and of Calabrian descent – he was born in Castrovillari, in the province of Cosenza – began almost two decades ago to recover some sounds, languages and “vitalisms proper to the South and the Mediterranean” with Ammaliata, from La Trilogia delle Lucciole. Recently, at the invitation of Renato Carpentieri, with whom he worked on a version of Luigi Pirandello’s play I Giganti della Montagna, he gave a workshop on urban performance for second-year students at the Teatro di Napoli. He is currently working on his directorial debut, a film set between Denmark and Calabria: it is Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold, a revenge film reworked in a contemporary key and inspired by the tragedy of Hamlet. After his Hollywood experience in All the Money in the World, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Kevin Spacey, Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams and Timothy Hutton, and the BBC US series starring Sofie Gråbøl and Tom Hollander (who also praised Bonifati in the pages of the London Times), Italian artist Giuseppe Bonifati will therefore be making stops in Venice and at the New York Film Festival.
The film Ferrari. The cast of Ferrari also includes Shailene Woodley, Patrick Dempsey, Jack O’Connell, Sarah Gadon and Gabriel Leone. The screenplay, co-written by Mann and Troy Kennedy Martin, was inspired by Brock Yates’ book Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine. The legendary director of Heat, Collateral and The Last of the Mohicans has finally landed this major project after two decades. Set in 1957, the story interweaves Ferrari’s personal life with his racing life, including the tragic Mille Miglia of that year, marked by Alfonso De Portago’s accident and the threat of bankruptcy. Adam Driver will play Enzo Ferrari, while Penelope Cruz will play Laura Ferrari. Giuseppe Bonifati will play the role of Giacomo Cuoghi, a longtime friend and advisor to Enzo Ferrari.
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