“A Special Day is not a feel-good movie at all. It's just a wonderful film. It's by Ettore Scola, Sophia Loren, and my father. And it's just two characters, one set, it's... I wanted to say something else. I don't know what it was. But I'm going to put this in the Meantime. Oh, yes! Yes, because I think what's interesting about... Because, the other day, someone told me, "What is so modern about your father, in your opinion?" And I think– what came to my head is I think it's the fact that you have, you know, Italian cinema, Italian icons, the idea of the male figure has always been something very macho, you know, virile. And suddenly you have this actor who comes in, my father, with a very delicate way of moving himself. And actually my father always told me that the first movies he's done, well before he was famous, because fame came late in his life, he was dubbed because they thought he had such a soft voice that it couldn't be right for a man. And I think that's exactly what makes him so special is that he proposed a different version of a man, the possibility to be someone that seduces you without brutality, without machoism.”
