(ANSA) – ROME, SEP 2 – Sabrina Impacciatore’s incredible American dream is set to get even better as the Italian actress, who was introduced to US audiences by the second season of The White Lotus, set in Taormina, is about to win over new legions of fans with the series The Paper, which debuts in the US on September 4th and which, according to the New York Times, has put her on the path to becoming a true star even outside Italy.
The Paper, airing on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming platform, and coming to Italy this winter, is Greg Daniels and Michael Keaman’s spin-off of the American version of The Office, one of the most beloved shows of the 2000s.
In the ten episodes set in the newsroom of a local Ohio newspaper, The Toledo Truth Teller, Impacciatore plays the vain and manipulative editor Esmeralda Grand.
“She has this incredible talent,” Mike White, creator of White Lotus, told the Times.
While searching for Italian actors for the shoot set in Sicily, he cast her as Valentina, the buttoned-up manager of the five-star hotel in Taormina.
A 57-year-old Roman, Impacciatore had dreamed of being an actress since she was a child.
Having joined a theater company at 16 in the 2000s, after starring in Gabriele Muccino’s The Last Kiss, she nearly landed a Hollywood role with an audition for The Sopranos, which she turned down for love.
Determined to improve, she began studying with a coach at the Actors Studio, paying for the lessons by cleaning.
An improvisation, greeted with laughter from her classmates, revealed her comedic talent.
Thus began a career marked by television variety shows, comedies, and a few dramas (even a small part in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ), interspersed with periods of inactivity.
“They only called me when they thought no one else could do the role,” she confided to the Times, which interviewed her in Studio City.
In the US, Impacciatore rose to fame with The White Lotus: the part of Valentina earned her an Emmy nomination (later snatched by costar Jennifer Coolidge) and was her turning point.
English-language offers began to pour in, including Julian Schnabel’s In The Hand of Dante, out of competition tomorrow at Venice, and the action comedy G20, released in April.
The Paper was the offer that changed everything. Unlike co-star Chelsea Frei, Sabrina had never seen The Office, but she caught up by binge-watching episodes on the plane.
At her first audition, she improvised her lines. Daniels and Koman asked her to redo them from the script, and that’s how she got the part.
As she told the New York Times, the first two weeks of filming weren’t easy, yet on set, Daniels was enchanted by her talent for physical comedy and spontaneity.
The series, the Times reports, includes many improvisations: in one of them, Esmeralda gets a facelift using office tape.
Every night, Impacciatore cried, not only out of fear of not being up to par, but above all out of gratitude: “I thanked God,” she confided to the Times, “for these incredible dreams that were coming true.” (ANSA).
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The Paper, airing on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming platform, and coming to Italy this winter, is Greg Daniels and Michael Keaman’s spin-off of the American version of The Office, one of the most beloved shows of the 2000s.
In the ten episodes set in the newsroom of a local Ohio newspaper, The Toledo Truth Teller, Impacciatore plays the vain and manipulative editor Esmeralda Grand.
“She has this incredible talent,” Mike White, creator of White Lotus, told the Times.
While searching for Italian actors for the shoot set in Sicily, he cast her as Valentina, the buttoned-up manager of the five-star hotel in Taormina.
A 57-year-old Roman, Impacciatore had dreamed of being an actress since she was a child.
Having joined a theater company at 16 in the 2000s, after starring in Gabriele Muccino’s The Last Kiss, she nearly landed a Hollywood role with an audition for The Sopranos, which she turned down for love.
Determined to improve, she began studying with a coach at the Actors Studio, paying for the lessons by cleaning.
An improvisation, greeted with laughter from her classmates, revealed her comedic talent.
Thus began a career marked by television variety shows, comedies, and a few dramas (even a small part in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ), interspersed with periods of inactivity.
“They only called me when they thought no one else could do the role,” she confided to the Times, which interviewed her in Studio City.
In the US, Impacciatore rose to fame with The White Lotus: the part of Valentina earned her an Emmy nomination (later snatched by costar Jennifer Coolidge) and was her turning point.
English-language offers began to pour in, including Julian Schnabel’s In The Hand of Dante, out of competition tomorrow at Venice, and the action comedy G20, released in April.
The Paper was the offer that changed everything. Unlike co-star Chelsea Frei, Sabrina had never seen The Office, but she caught up by binge-watching episodes on the plane.
At her first audition, she improvised her lines. Daniels and Koman asked her to redo them from the script, and that’s how she got the part.
As she told the New York Times, the first two weeks of filming weren’t easy, yet on set, Daniels was enchanted by her talent for physical comedy and spontaneity.
The series, the Times reports, includes many improvisations: in one of them, Esmeralda gets a facelift using office tape.
Every night, Impacciatore cried, not only out of fear of not being up to par, but above all out of gratitude: “I thanked God,” she confided to the Times, “for these incredible dreams that were coming true.” (ANSA).
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