An intense and at the same time ironic look, with that somewhat wrinkled beauty of those who carry a suffered experience and a non -superficial soul: the face of Giulio Beranek, 38 years old. Son of Carousel, Father Czech, mother of Spanish origin announces what transpires from the chat that we have done with him for his leading role in Gerri, The new police series directed by Giuseppe Bonito who starts on Rai 1 on May 12th and taken from the yellow novels of Giorgia Lepore published by E/O. Gerri Esposito is a Trani police inspector with a painful past: he is a Roma abandoned by his mother, the real name was Goran, who grew up in a family home by a priest. Entering the police, he found a sort of putative father who dispenses him and covers his intemperances both on the sentimental and professional level in the Manager of the Mobile (Fabrizio Ferracane). The cases that prefers, and in which it is thrown with a fury that goes beyond the simple dusting role, concern women, children, the weakest subjects and on which violence is vented too many times. At his side the new arrival at the police headquarters, the vice -inspector Lea Coen (Valentina Romani), who immediately solidizes with Gerri because he is also the victim of prejudices being Jewish.
What type is Gerri Esposito?
«A character full of shadows, with a past that is slowly revealed during the episodes. The abandonment of the mother blocked him in a sort of perennial adolescence: he is impulsive, impatient to the rules, he cannot build stable ties with women, he takes refuge in junk food to fill his emotional void. He has a vague memory of his early years, which torments him, and needs to understand if at least for a short time he is loved by his mother ».
Was she chosen because she has a experience similar to that of a rom having grown up in a family of carousels?
«No, because I was the best to the auditions! (Ride, ed). What interests me in my work is always doing it at best, beyond success. I am a rather shy and reserved person, soon I am needed to promote a movie or a series, it is part of the game, but if I can avoid participating in public events ».
Did Giorgia Lepore’s books read them?
“All four and I also met the author, who said to me:” For me Gerri has always had your face! “. I have always read a lot, I love in particular the classic Russian authors, but also American such as John Fante and Raymond Carver. I love Stefan Zweig, I had also thought of drawing a screenplay from a very original story ».
In addition to reading, do you write?
«Contrary to many of my colleagues I have no ambition to become a director, but yes, I already have three scripts in the drawer. And I also wrote a novel inspired by my carousel life, the son of the frogs ».
Erroneously tend to think that the carousels are Rom?
«And instead it is not so, even if theirs is an itinerant profession. And in order not to be confused with the Roma, the “straight” self -defined. Until 7 years of age I traveled for Puglia, every few weeks I had to change school, I know well that feeling of not having roots in one place. Then we moved to Greece, always with the Luna Park, and we were more stable there. I could become a footballer, I played in the Olympiakos youth team, but my career was stopped by an injury ».
And how did it get to the cinema?
«Absolutely randomly. When I was 16 we had returned to Italy, in Taranto, where I finished the classic high school. I was still a student when the director Alessandro Di Robilant was looking for a boy for the protagonist of the film Marpiccolo. He reviewed 4 thousand candidates and chose me. The traveling show was already a world in crisis, and I threw myself in this new adventure. The help of the director was Giuseppe Bonito, with whom I remained in excellent relationships, so much so that he wanted me in the small role of a carousel in The army».
In the first episode a Roma girl at a certain point says: “As long as you are on the surface of things one is always worth the other”. Have you had experience of superficial judgments too?
«I lived for a long time under the sign of prejudice. People were amazed that in the campers in which we lived we had the bathroom, for example. When we arrived in a new city they attributed the faults of all the thefts. This is why I created, together with Marco Pellegrino, the documentary The kings of the amusement parkthat you can see on Sky: you know little about this world. Roma are still victims of stereotypes, and I believe that Gerri can help to unhinge some prejudices about them. “
