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Joe Wright Says His Mussolini Italian TV Series ‘M. Son Of The Century’ Is “About How Dreadful Men Can Be” – Venice Q&A
Interview with Joe Wright about the making of his first Italian TV series 'M. Son of the Century' about Benito Mussolini.
He originally shot M. from October 2022-April 2023; the show carrying all the filmmaker’s tonal sensibilities, i.e. deep amber colors, flickering shadows, fierce pacing which we’ve seen in his award-winning features Darkest Hour, Atonement, Anna Karenina and more. M. Son of the Century follows Mussolini’s rise, as played by Luca Marinelli, from being an editor of political newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia, to becoming a passionate symbol of hope to forgotten Great War veterans, which spawned the vitriol and violent Blackshirts; all paving the way to the totalitarian’s grip of a nation. And he said it’s completely up to you, but I would look at Luca Marinelli, and he was absolutely spot on, and one of the great things, for me as a British, English-speaking director, is that I wasn’t aware of the Italian accent, and so I could discover a whole world of actors that’ve never been on my radar before.
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