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New james bond actor from belgium1/30/2024 One day, I would like to do a show with only an apple, so to speak, because I love to do as much as possible with as little as possible. I’m very much inspired by mime when you’re limited to only using your expression, gestures, movements. Chaplin’s screen persona of the Tramp has a certain tristesse, he’s nostalgic and very funny at the same time. The way you look, how you walk and talk, your accent,… An actor does a lot more than just say his lines and play out a scene: he creates a human being, and each human being has his own identity. The reason why I chose “The Kid” for example, like Charlie Chaplin, I am a very physical actor too. I chose those films because they all touched me in various ways. I like the fact that the films you chose for the Festival cover a whole century of filmmaking and they’re a mix of European art films and highly acclaimed English-language films. At eighteen, I entered drama school, and then I also got to know the incredible body of work of actors like De Niro and Daniel Day-Lewis. When I was young, I went to boarding school, so, at that time, I wasn’t too much involved with film. That’s also the main reason why I chose the father-son relationship in the films I picked out for the Festival. My father and my grandfather gave me the kind of fantasy, inspiration, and energy I needed to become an actor. But I’m very realistic about what I do, I work very hard, and I don’t take anything for granted.ĭid De Niro inspire you in any way to become an actor, or were there other actors, filmmakers, and films that had a huge impact on you? When you watch films like “Taxi Driver”, Robert De Niro’s outstanding and gripping characterization and top-notch acting, how he delivers his lines… I have always been in awe of what he does and how he does it. Well, that’s a very nice thing to say, and, of course, who wouldn’t dream of becoming an actor in that range. Simoni, looking at a photograph of yours, featured on one of the posters of the Festival, I think the comparisons are pretty obvious between you and Robert De Niro’s raw dynamism and vulnerability early in his career, or with Marlon Brando’s first publicity stills when he did “The Men” or “A Streetcar Named Desire”. He recently visited the coastal city of Ostend to launch the Film Festival and to talk about his contribution to the upcoming FFO 2018 and his craft as an actor. Pretty remarkable, since he’s only thirty years old. Simoni is an authority as far as acting is concerned, making him a distinguished personality. Next September, he will be the Ostend Film Festival’s Master, hosting the Festival with his own selection of ten movies, from Chaplin’s “The Kid” (1921) to Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” (2007), and with quite a bit of renowned continental features in between, all focusing on the theme of father and son, which is very dear to him as, acting-wise, his own father and grandfather were very inspirational to him in his formative years. Simoni was introduced at the Berlinale as one of the Festival’s ‘ Shooting Stars ’ following in the footsteps of Rachel Weisz, Carey Mulligan, and Daniel Craig. “Sum of Histories”) and the highly successful TV series “Callboys” (2017), Mr. Five years later, after the insightful and compelling time travel journey “Terug naar Morgen” (2015, a.k.a. Simoni rediscovered his Italian roots (his paternal grandfather is Italian) and he learned to speak the language. Simoni played singer-songwriter-accordionist Rocco Granata, who in 1959 hit the Billboard charts and subsequently conquered the world with his hit song ‘Marina.’ In the meantime, Mr. When he appeared in “Marina” (2013), directed by Academy Award-nominee Stijn Coninx, Mr. Time and time again, he brings a particular vitality to any role he plays because of his conviction and emotional power: he always acts, reacts, and interacts in a most surprising way. From his TV series “Safety First” (2013-2015) with a kind of freewheeling slapstick humor, while at the same time it could be unusually mature, to “Patser”, his latest feature and a box office hit in the Low Countries, no matter what character Belgian-born stage and screen actor Matteo Simoni portrays, his acting is always subtle, intelligent and engaging.
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