Miriam Leone is "Miss Fallaci" in the television series produced by Paramount and Minerva Pictures that we will see on the small screen in eight episodes. The creative director is Luca Ribuoli, who directs the first four episodes; while Giacomo Martelli and Alessandra Gonnella direct the other four episodes of the series. “Miss Fallaci” tells the Florentine journalist in the late fifties when she begins to travel between New York and Hollywood to interview movie stars. She had a significant 'made in the USA' experience before becoming the first war correspondent and one of the most important writers and signatures of Italian journalism in the world. It should be noted that Fallaci, with her books, boasts 20 million copies sold and translated into twenty-five languages.
Miss Fallaci
"Miss Fallaci presents an unedited Oriana to the general public. A lesser known figure, always dynamic, fearless courageous; we will also see her fragile aspects, her emotional dependence on her first great love in her youth Alfredo Pieroni, a journalist who was already married to whom he wrote poignant letters”. These are the considerations of Miriam Leone who adds: “We will also see her physically different from the images delivered to her story in her look, with original hair. I wore several wigs, I studied a lot of her words, letters and objects from her archive that her nephew gave us. I trained with a coach for the Tuscan inflection of her speech.
All thanks to Edoardo Perazzi, his nephew, who opened his house to me together with his wife where the Fallaci archive is kept”. A story of professional and human training full of charm. Written by Viola Rispoli, Thomas Grieves, Laura Grimaldi, Alice Urciuolo, Alessandra Gonnella. In the filming on the set Oriana / Miriam with brown bob hair she spends a period of convalescence in Florence, at her parents' house where she was a child during the war. Memories of her mix with hallucinations of her and for the first time in her life she can't write. The images of Oriana in the present alternate throughout the episode with those of fourteen-year-old Oriana, in the Florence of '43.
Oriana's America
At that time, the Fallaci family hides two American soldiers and Oriana is a partisan relay, unbeknownst to her mother. The series tells the story of a young Oriana but there is no shortage of time jumps: in fact, the first episode opens with the journalist who interviews Henry Kissinger in 1972. Oriana of "Miss Fallaci" has a disenchanted gaze and with her unmistakable style she tells the "factory of stars" Of Hollywood, exposing the contradictions of American society. The series takes up episodes that really happened, told by the journalist herself in her first books The Seven Sins of Hollywood e Penelope at war, published by Rizzoli.
(Photo official page Miriam Leone)
