00:00That's a very good question.
00:11Your character is a fixer.
00:13Did you ever wish to have a fixer in your own life?
00:18That's a very good question.
00:21I bet I could have really used a fixer in different parts of my life, for sure.
00:26Or maybe not one as violent as Daniel De Luca in Hotel Costiera,
00:35but I think we all could use a little bit of help.
00:38I think that's maybe part of the appeal of the show and the characters in the show,
00:44is that we'd love to be where these characters are,
00:48both in the Costiera and have this family, this chosen family that he's surrounded himself with.
00:55I think everybody wants to be seen and wants to have a place to be able to be honest and
01:00really feel safe.
01:01And that is a journey that a lot of our characters are on.
01:05Did you have fun playing with stereotypes about Italy and the United States?
01:09Because I saw a little footage of the series and at a certain point your character said to another character,
01:15let's play American, busy Americans.
01:19I would like to ask you if you had fun to play on American Day.
01:22Yeah, I think it's fun to poke fun at any, you know, comedy is an important part of therapy,
01:34it is an important part of healing, and an important part of friendship.
01:38You know, me and my friends, we make fun of each other, we play, that's how you kind of know
01:41we're being honest.
01:42And America is always, is very often kind of the big influence and the bully in the world,
01:51so it's kind of fun for another country to be able to poke fun at us.
01:54It's all in good fun, it's all playful.
02:00So I think that, yes, with an entirely Italian production crew and company,
02:06we made sure to honor the culture here, not leaning to stereotypes.
02:11We were very diligent about that, making sure we have a multitude of,
02:15there's not one way to be an Italian man, woman, elder or young person,
02:19so we're showing as diverse as possible for our characters, and I think we did a very good job with
02:24that.
02:24And what attracted you to the role, but also to the whole project,
02:30because you are also an executive producer, right?
02:34A lot of things attracted me to the role.
02:36I think being able to build around, you know, I'm, I know what it's like,
02:43and I know people who know what it's like to find yourself, you pour yourself into a job,
02:49and then you come out the other side, and now what?
02:52What do you have?
02:54Where should you go next?
02:56You committed to something, and then it kind of falls apart.
02:59Now, where do you turn?
03:01And this character is at a crossroads in his life.
03:04Daniel DeLuca doesn't quite know where to go.
03:07Something ended for him, he's from this country, but not really,
03:11and he's from America, but has a longing, a pulling to be somewhere else.
03:16Members of his family are gone now, so there's something that is very attractive
03:21and I think relatable about a character trying to find and build something new and trying
03:25to do good, even though maybe they've had trouble with that in the past, and trusting
03:31friends and trying to build a new family.
03:33I think there's a lot of universal qualities about the character and the story that were
03:37very attractive to me.
03:39Also, getting to live and work in a beautiful country is a pretty good deal.
03:44Sometimes we shoot in not-so-beautiful places, so that was nice as well.
03:50But it was an opportunity to learn and to make something international.
03:53I think, as an American, I try to leave the country as much as possible and have a global
03:58perspective.
04:00It's very easy to think we're the only ones in the world over there, because it's such
04:04a big and influential place.
04:06And I think it's very important for all of us to think more about the collective health
04:11of our world.
04:13As you said, you work with many Italian actors.
04:15How was it?
04:16I mean, did you find some difference in the approach?
04:21You know, we worked with really incredible actors on this show, both from Italy and other
04:29countries.
04:29And for a lot of them, they were acting in English for the first time.
04:32It was my first time acting in Italian.
04:34It's a very difficult thing to do.
04:36You're starting over.
04:38And I would really admire their process and the result that we got.
04:43I think that the differences that I found were just the same as you could find those same
04:49differences in London or in Los Angeles in different styles.
04:53Artists that are creative come to it from a different place, and that's what makes it
04:58interesting.
04:58Thank God we don't all do it the same way or we don't all have the same process.
05:02That would be really boring.
05:03Or that would be a very specific genre.
05:07And because we're action, drama, comedy, thriller, detective series in multiple languages, you know, you'll
05:16have scenes with six actors that are all from six different countries.
05:20That's a pretty rare opportunity.
05:22So I like that it was hard to define, and there's always something to learn in every scene.
05:28Thank you so much for your time.
05:30Thank you.
05:30Thank you.
05:31Thank you.
05:32So, I'll see you.
05:33Decisamente no.
05:34Forse.
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