Meet Antonella Salvucci: Italian actress, model, and TV personality

Antonella Salvucci. Photo Credit: Paolo Fidemi

Antonella Salvucci is an  Italian model, journalist, TV personality, and actress. She opened up about her latest endeavors and inspirations.

She opened up about her future plans, the digital age, and shared her thoughts on AI on the future of the entertainment business.

Daily inspirations as an actress

On her daily motivations as an actress, she shared, “It is very intense and constant work every day which is based on discipline, on improving and learning from every single emotion, whether positive or negative, with the awareness of carrying an emotional baggage that makes the difference and where to draw from to recreate characters equipped with depth.”

“This is called acting on multiple levels, it is never superficial and for me, it is essential to go in depth transforming even the deepest wounds into truth and art,” she said.

Future plans

Regarding her future plans, she revealed, “The future for me is always an unknown, I live in the here and now but there is a need to plan and always set a new goal as an objective to motivate me and run faster.”

“At the moment, after having also worked in the USA and India, I would like to push myself more and more internationally, perhaps with a TV series that I can admire on the platforms and that is precisely what I am working on,” she elaborated.

“I am getting ready to work on a nice project for the cinema that will see me in an institutional but also deeply human role with dreams and weaknesses and with a tormented love to fight for,” she added.

The digital age

On being an actress and TV personality in the digital age, Salvucci said, “It is a great step forward, which also helps and supports the projects, which also makes our idols closer and more real to us, being able to admire them in real time, noticing the efforts and difficulties that exist backstage or on a film set.

“It also helps anyone to think that this is a job made of courage, risks and a lot of self-sacrifice, not just the usual red carpets of festivals that every actor must attend and accompany the films into the theater,” she said.

She continued, “I consider social media, streaming and technology a privilege also for being able to share a scene, a reel or even some film made in the past that is viewed by directors and producers, so you are often called also for your credibility on social media and on interaction and engagement, an important thermometer also for productions and distributions that know they can count on you to ensure a following and an important slice of audience at the cinema.”

AI on the future of the entertainment business

Salvucci shared her insights on AI on the future of the entertainment industry. “In my opinion, we have witnessed a historic turning point regarding the rights of actors and screenwriters, a great act of intelligence, solidarity and united strength by American actors which has influenced the whole world,” she said.

“It is thanks truly to their intense struggle which also we could consequently see our image rights better protected in the future! We are all very alarmed by the future exploitation of our image,” she said.

She continued, “In my opinion artificial intelligence should not usurp our image rights, nor replace actors or anything else but be of assistance or support where it is deemed necessary as happens for example in case of Brandon Lee in which the production agreed to use ‘computer generated imagery’ to recreate the face of the sadly deceased actor.”

“In extraordinary cases like this one, we can agree but without ever overriding and making the boundary between reality and fantasy increasingly blurred,” she added.

Advice for young and aspiring actors

For young and aspiring actors, she said, “First of all, to save themselves, but jokes aside to do a continuous self-analysis to understand if it is a cause that they truly espouse out of passion, devotion.

“Also, if they feel ready to continually put themselves at stake, to be exposed to criticism, to have a high self-esteem whatever happens, to prepare to be competitive on the market and to experience the inevitable ups and downs of this job,” she said.

“If the answers are affirmative, then good luck and fly to the top by throwing your heart beyond every obstacle,” she added.

Favorite motto to live by

On her favorite motto to live by, she shared, “Following the example of Walt Disney, a great innovator, creator of dreams all over the world, and optimist like me: ‘If you can dream it, you can do it’.”

Success

Regarding her definition of the word success, Salvucci said, “I consider the word success a double-edged sword, certainly the tip of the iceberg of a long process made up of many sacrifices, correct choices, a lot of head but also the result of many sacrifices of private life and on a personal level, which sometimes lead also to isolation for a sort of protection from those who want to be close to you out of interest and we artists who are so cheerful and open are often subjected to those who want to take away your light and put themselves in your place.”

Antonella Salvucci thanks her fans

For her fans, she expressed, “I want to thank all my fans and supporters who follow me and encourage me with so much affection, I must say that they are fundamental pillars for me, they understand me even from the distance of a small screen via social media and are able to understand my emotional states.”

“If I’m sad or happy, if I’m busy or tired and they always turn to me with extreme kindness, I’m very lucky for that, thank you for existing,” she said.

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