00:00PASTA FUMO! PASTA FUMO!
00:19Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Valentina from Italy.
00:22So, I have to ask, I'm sorry, but how often do you think about the Roman Empire after this TV
00:29show?
00:31I said this earlier to somebody, I didn't think about like the Roman Empire on a daily basis.
00:40Yes, I thought a lot about it, like the last one and a half, two years.
00:45But now I'm like working on something else and I'm not thinking about it at all.
00:52Okay, perfect. It's interesting how in this TV show,
00:57entertainment can be dangerous because people want to be entertained.
01:02They want to see the games, but the games distract them from the important stuff.
01:08Do you feel that today is the same thing?
01:10Entertainment can be dangerous because it distracts us from the important stuff.
01:15Well, we have like a little bit more distraction.
01:18We have TV, we have film, we have music.
01:23There's a lot of, lot of things which distract us and naturally sports events.
01:29And yeah, and that's like kind of always like used to distract people.
01:34But this is not like kind of in any way, and you know, I mean, you have to entertain them,
01:41but you also have to, you have to kind of distract them from maybe more important things.
01:47And I have the feeling, when you like look at our interest in fight global warming, there's not much there.
02:03Tanax says that he teaches the kids things that they need to know.
02:09In your opinion, what does, is this TV show teaching something useful to us?
02:16And what is it, in your opinion?
02:19Well, it's, it's, it's a little bit, you know, like kind of showing how like kind of sports can distract.
02:27And how sports can be manipulated, you know, because there's a lot of cheating going on.
02:35And then it's about the just raw emotion of a mother seeing her son, you know, fighting this monster flama.
02:48And Tanax cannot believe when he kind of wins, you know what I mean?
02:54And then she has to go through this again at the very end with Vigo.
02:59But it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a lot of that, you know, it's for me, you know, sports is like
03:08something, I'm, I'm myself not very a sports fan.
03:12So I can stay outside a little bit and see how, you know, like people react to certain, you know,
03:23you know, like that Scorpus is like nearly a movie star.
03:29And, and, and do you believe that in this TV show, fists are stronger than words or, or not?
03:37No, it's like about words and fists.
03:40No, it's about violence.
03:43And, and also like, don't forget, it's like kind of where sometimes, you know, the son of the emperor, like
03:52Domitian, you know, yells at flama and said, kill him, kill him.
03:57He hates him too.
03:59So, and then like naturally little Kwame kind of survives, you know, and, and it's like kind of at the
04:07end, you know, like kind of, you know, survives this whole ordeal.
04:14And, but that is like, for me, for sure, a very, very important part of the show.
04:25You directed a Godzilla in the last Godzilla movie.
04:30We, we saw that Godzilla sleeps in the Colosseum.
04:34Can we expect Godzilla in the second season of this TV show?
04:38No, no, no, are you kidding me?
04:44Okay, no, and, and the actors said to me that, uh, everybody on set in Cinecittà will say basta fumo.
04:55It was the, the words that you, you were more often on set.
05:00Can you explain?
05:02Well, it's like, yeah.
05:04Look, basta fumo means less smoke.
05:08Yeah, yeah.
05:09So, uh, when they're like kind of, uh, when they're like kind of making smoke, this is almost two, three
05:16people, they fall sometimes asleep.
05:19They don't watch, like kind of filmed anymore.
05:22And I'm like then yelling, basta fumo, basta fumo.
05:27And that became then a t-shirt.
05:31Really?
05:32Is there a t-shirt?
05:33Really?
05:35I have one.
05:37Amazing.
05:38Thank you so much.
05:40Thank you.
Commenti