Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentActor Giancarlo Giannini’s collaboration with writer-director Lina Wertmüller, who died Dec.
9 at age 93, spans nine films, including raucous sex comedy and social satire “The Seduction of Mimì” — his first leading role in a Wertmüller movie — which brought them both their first taste of international fame.
Giannini spoke to Variety by phone from Rome about their symbiotic relationship and unique rapport.How did you and Lina first intersect?I was studying acting at the National Academy in Rome.
She came to see two plays I was in — one was by Molière — and offered me parts in two musical movies with the great pop singer Rita Pavone.
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