Ginevra Francesconi

"There is a difference, however: on social networks you are yourself, while in the cinema it is not me who acts, but the character I play. When I act, shyness disappears because I let the person I give my face speak to."

"I'm very self-critical: when I see a scene I always notice what I don't like and what I would have done differently, and that's why I try to listen to the opinions of those around me, completely trusting the directors."

"When I was seven I enrolled in a theater course without knowing that it would be my greatest passion. It started as a game but, in eighth grade, I realized that I wanted to get serious and study in Rome: from there I never stopped working, so much so that I moved here because going back and forth to Sora was getting complicated."

"In the family you have decidedly clear ideas. Please tell me you have a loser brother who, like all ordinary mortals, is working hard to make it. No, no loser brother: it's just me and Ludovica. By the way, we started together: she was 11, I was 7. It's one of those coincidences that is hard to explain: she was part of a theater company and I enrolled in their drama school. In short, we studied in different classes and, over time, what seemed to be a fun pastime became a passion for both of us. Luckily we have very different approaches and styles. For example, we happened to prepare for the same casting and the same scene was represented in a completely different way by me and by her. Probably the fact that Ludovica is much more expansive, while I have a shy and introverted character, also has an influence."

"Acting remains my only great aspiration, and I invest all my energies in this. But, yes: there is a plan B. I'm in the fifth year of scientific high school and, after graduating, I'll enroll in criminology. I will study it mostly out of passion, because the subject fascinates me a lot. At worst, this will be my plan B."

"Up to now you have almost always played the role of the daughter of, primarily for reasons of age. But do you think that Italian fiction and cinema should rejuvenate the teen story, along the lines of the American example? In Italy we often stop at the character of the son because we tend to look at the world of children with an adult eye. Instead, we should reverse the perspective, which is what allowed the Americans and the British to conceive series such as Euphoria, Tredici, Sex Education."