{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Valeria Golino on Hollywood, Directing and a Life in Cinema - 303 - Alain Elkann Interviews","description":"ICONIC ITALIAN ACTRESS & FILMMAKER. Valeria Golino is an acclaimed Italian actress and filmmaker. Born in Naples, Italy, she grew up between Greece and Italy and is one of the most internationally recognized Italian figures in cinema, fluent in Italian, Greek, French, and English. To English-language audiences, she is most famous for her prominent roles in late \u201980s and early \u201990s American films, including Rain Man (1988), Big Top Pee-wee (1988), and the parody comedies Hot Shots! (1991) and Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993). She holds the rare distinction of being one of only four actresses to have won the prestigious Volpi Cup for Best Actress twice at the Venice Film Festival (for Storia d\u2019amore in 1986 and Per amor vostro in 2015). She has starred in celebrated European projects such as Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and prominent television series like Apple TV+\u2019s The Morning Show. Golino has also found critical success behind the camera, directing well-received films like Miele (2013) and Euforia (2018), as well as the 2024 drama series L\u2019Arte della Gioia (The Art of Joy). \u201cI became an actress by Chance, but I continued by Choice. I like being an actress, and now I like directing even more.\u201d \u201cYou feel that you\u2019ve done something that may be useful \u2014 not practically, perhaps, but useful to the soul. Cinema can make you change your mind.\u201d \u201cI think if you lose childhood and innocence, somehow you lose yourself. A lot of my childhood has stayed with me. It never left, and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s necessarily a bad thing.\u201d https:\/\/www.alainelkanninterviews.com\/valeria-golino\/ ","author_name":"Alain Elkann Interviews","author_url":"https:\/\/www.alainelkanninterviews.com\/","html":"