“I can't detach myself from the history of my family, I'm sorry, I thought of my mother, my brother, fortunately I have the 'holy' Rosa” (he says, turning to his wife, who is among the journalists seated, namely pink). Caracciolo, pseudonym of Rózsa Tassi (former Hungarian porn model and actress)”. This is how porn star Rocco Siffredi explains the tears that the question of fate and family provoked in Berlin this morning. The occasion was the world premiere in the Berlinale Special of Supersex, a seven-part series inspired by his life (“98%,” he says himself) and will debut on Netflix on March 6, 2024 with Alessandro Borghi as the protagonist.
Rocco Siffredi: “Sex addiction is “the devil”, but now I only dedicate myself to my wife Rosa”
Rocco Siffredi's tears
And still moved, Siffredi concludes: “I was proudly a man who was an object for women, and I say that not out of vanity, but with my head held high.” However, I paid a high price for that.” It all begins in the sixties , as Rocco Tano, a simple boy from Ortona who would become the most famous porn star in the world much later than Rocco Siffredi, is a poor child in love with Tommaso, the eldest and most cursed of his brothers (Adriano Giannini), engaged to the most beautiful in the country, Lucia (Jasmine Trinca). But the kid also loves Supersex, a pornographic comic that is his Linus cover. At a certain point, Rocco will discover that he too has the same superpower as the comedian, namely that of an exuberant sexuality that will inevitably influence his entire life. “This series also tells the story of the evolution of porn, which was great and beautiful in the eighties and nineties with Moana Pozzi and Cicciolina,” says Siffredi, “then there was an industrialization of porn.” With the advent of the Internet, everything changed changed, there is no longer the possibility of doing porn as a career, but only making money. It is as if we have entered a dimension before the future, the natural, true calling has been over for 15 years.”
The story of Alessandro Borghi
“I have always used my body without difficulty, and have done so since I was a child,” says Borghi, who went nude hundreds of times for “Supersex.” “My first sexual education came through porn.” After all, much of what we learn about sex comes from gym locker rooms or school desks. This series gave me the opportunity to question myself and my sexual education. “The difficulties,” the actor concludes, “are of a different, emotional nature: I always wondered whether Rocco Siffredi would recognize himself in this scene, I didn’t want to just make it an imitation.”
Jasmine Trinca
Then Jasmine Trinca, who, among other things, sits on the international jury for this edition of the Berlinale, says: “Lucia, the partner of Tommaso, Rocco’s leader brother, who at some point turns her into a prostitute, allowed me to give a voice for the first time.” profound thought: that of escaping one's fate, of accomplishing an act of enormous freedom. While Giannini, who plays the tormented Tommaso, underlines: “When they proposed to me I wanted to run away, I was very scared.” Tommaso is a very complex character, starting from the dialect, a man without skin who looks like Hamlet, a bipolar character. Finally, one of the three directors, Francesca Mazzoleni, explains why the voice uses such high tones: “Rocco is the excess of masculinity that this voice brings to a higher level of consciousness.” “Rocco is his ass,” he concludes , “they are also a mythopoetic fact.” The series' cast – created and written by Francesca Manieri, produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment and by Matteo Rovere for Groenlandia and directed by Matteo Rovere, Francesco Carrozzini and Francesca Mazzoleni – also includes: Saul Nanni (Rocco Boy), Enrico Borello (Gabriele), Vincenzo Nemolato (Riccardo Schicchi), Gaia Messerklinger (Moana), Jade Pedri (Sylvie) and Linda Caridi (Tina).
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