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Alba Rohrwacher Unearths the Mystery of My Brilliant Friend
After seven years of voicing Elena Ferrante’s ambitious heroine, the Italian actress brings Lenù Greco home.
The Italian actress had been narrating HBO’s adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novels, about the lives of two book-loving, quietly competitive friends from a poor Naples neighborhood, since its first episode in 2018. Season four, subtitled The Story of the Lost Child, finds Lenù consumed by her affair with Nino, hauling her daughters back to Naples to live with him and, after he betrays her, growing closer with Lila (now played by the sublime Irene Maiorino) than ever before. Once they invited him to do a speech with an important writer and journalist in Italy called Goffredo Fofi, and they asked me to read the emails she wrote to Saverio at the Torino book festival.
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