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Netflix’s Tinny Andreatta & Writer Francesca Manieri On Why Porn Star Drama ‘Supersex’ Speaks To Modern Masculinity & The Streamer’s Italian Slate
Tinny Andreatta and Francesca Manieri on Netflix Italy's Rocco Siffredi drama series 'Supersex'.
Supersex is a co-production between Fremantle-owned The Apartment, the Italian indie Mieli recently exited to form a new production house with Mario Gianani, and Banijay’s Groenlandia, with Alessandro Borghi playing Siffredi, who is known for his rough sex scenes and domineering on-screen personality. Shows hitting that brief include Supersex, Everything Calls … and The Law According to Lidia Poët, the latter of which also fulfils another requirement: telling stories about “complex, irreverent and extraordinary female characters, portraying them with their defects and shadows,” as Andreatta puts it. With Netflix still in the position to fully fund content locally, co-productions are not on the horizon, but a strategy of buying second window rights on Italian shows, sometimes capturing audiences traditional TV homes cannot not provide, will continue.
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