00:00Hi, Mr. Salone, how are you?
00:02I'm doing great, thank you.
00:04Welcome in Rome.
00:06The way the General Manfredi is an old glory.
00:09When he comes out of prison, it seems that time is over for him.
00:15How do you reinvent yourself every day in life and work?
00:20The idea is that I've always been very, very aware of the clock.
00:25And as you get older, the clock keeps to go faster.
00:28And you have two choices.
00:30One is you sit down and look at your shoes all day and maybe learn how to fish.
00:35Or you go, you know what, I'm going to just chew this scenery apart.
00:40I'm going to go for it.
00:41I just keep inventing.
00:43I actually set up goals.
00:45I'll set up personal enemies.
00:47For example, I'm going to go after this guy.
00:50I'm going to go after this part.
00:51It's just that.
00:52You just set up these challenges.
00:54I'm going to get in better shape than ever.
00:56It's just one thing after another to aggravate myself, but it keeps you, you know, animated.
01:03It's almost an aggressive point of view.
01:05Manfredi, and especially Rocky, teach us to try even when all seems lost.
01:11Do you see something of yourself in them?
01:15Yeah, they're almost semi-biographical.
01:18You only write what you know.
01:19And that's the way I've always approached life.
01:23Like the word yo really means yes and no put together.
01:27I don't ever take no as an answer, even though quite often no was the final answer.
01:33You just, you know, you go against it.
01:35You just go against it.
01:35I'm a big, I'm cynical as hell.
01:39Trust me.
01:39I mean, I have nothing nice to say.
01:42What do you think, including myself, I'm very critical.
01:45But I really believe that you have to, this is going to sound so nuts.
01:55Are you ready?
01:57Drum roll.
01:58Eye of the tiger.
01:59You have to do it.
02:01Not eye of the sheep.
02:02Not eye of the baboon.
02:04The eye of the tiger.
02:05You go for it.
02:06Because this is it.
02:07This is not a dress rehearsal.
02:09This is life.
02:10Tonight I'll have one less day to go for it.
02:13So I'm very, very agitated to keep going quicker.
02:18You debut in a TV series, Tulsa Kinga.
02:20How is it to see yourself on the screen in episodes?
02:24And have you discovered new things about your work?
02:27Yeah.
02:28Yeah, I did.
02:29Well, first of all, I really dress well.
02:31You know, I love this.
02:32Trust me.
02:33Kind of retro, the way men used to dress.
02:36You know, I'm not saying anything.
02:37Kind of old school.
02:39It's beautiful.
02:39But the hardest thing in acting, believe it or not, is being yourself.
02:46Most actors, when you see them off camera, as you know, they're not the same.
02:51They're kind of quiet, withdrawn sometimes, don't talk much, too introspective.
02:56And that's fine.
02:57And they can't wait to play a character, because it's interesting.
03:01Oh, great.
03:02I don't have to be me.
03:03I can be someone else.
03:05I thought, though, I don't know if you ever read, like, Franz Kafka, in the book called
03:11The Metamorphosis, he wakes up, he wakes up, he's a cockroach.
03:15In other words, same brain, but he has a different body.
03:17I thought, why not, for once, don't try to copy every cliche, gangster.
03:26What if I was a gangster, but with this personality, like, just the way I am now?
03:33That's how I would be as a gangster.
03:36If I was a gangster, I wouldn't change all of a sudden.
03:41That's not me.
03:42So I thought, let me try to just do that for once.
03:47So when you see Tulsa King, this is the closest thing to who I am, for real.
03:54Mr. Salone, thank you for your time.
03:56It was a pleasure talking to you.
03:58Ah, so quick.
03:59What happened?
04:00Defa.
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