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Alessandro Calza and Adam Neal Smith in Ciao.
The ending of Ciao is very sensual, sad and natural at the same time. Combining we are having in the community is because we don’t have enough visibility. It’s
those elements and making them work on film can be very complicated. Calza very difficult to find somebody who is out, gay and big in Hollywood. We don’t
agrees and says, “Sex is the most human thing in the universe. Between normal have it. If you look at Hollywood, who the f#@k is out? Nobody. Probably twenty
movies and porno movies, people probably film sex more than anything else. to thirty percent of the people in Hollywood are gay, but nobody says. They are so
At the same time, it’s very complicated to film it and nobody seems able to find afraid of losing the money. Sometimes I see these people doing gay movies, just
a solution, to the point that even great directors in big movies always go for a to do a movie. The roles they are playing are so negative toward our community.
montage. You have the music pumping and they cum within twenty seconds and I wouldn’t do a bad role just to take the money or that would affect most of the
you don’t know what the f#@k they’re doing (laughter). But people don’t really community at a political level. Say coincidentally somebody straight looks at a
have the time to empathize with the sexuality and the sensuality. movie and thinks that gay people suck. Whatever I am going to do in the future, I
Yen’s idea was to basically concentrate on something that people could basi- am going to be very careful about these things.”
cally follow for four minutes. Something that people could sit down and relate to In closing, Calza stated why the film Ciao should be on your list of films to see, “I
without the music or the montage.” would suggest to see the movie because I think it’s a movie that will touch us on
After viewing Ciao for the first time, it is very apparent that Alessandro Calza has a universal level with things that we all feel. At the same time, I think it also states
a tremendous amount of screen presence. His day job is being a web designer and very clearly that you can do gay cinema without always falling into stereotypes. I
he has many high-profile clients. Yet, has he caught the acting bug? Does he want think Ciao is a movie about normal people. Not that I want to say people have this
to continue finding work as an actor? He replies, “I think I want to do more things feeling at all, we like diversity and stuff. It’s not always necessary whenever you
but so far, everything that has been proposed to me wasn’t really very interesting. have a gay movie or make the gay community visible to underline and stress that
I want to do something that satisfies me. I really love cinema in the first place, there is always diversity, diversity, diversity. But I think that Ciao represents that
so I don’t have the guts to do something really bad. It doesn’t really mean that it most people are probably like [the characters of Adam or Mark or Andrea in the
has to be something bigger to be more rewarding. It has to be something that I movie]. I would suggest for them to go and see what can be a way of making mov-
can be proud of. From a political view, I always thought that visibility is extremely ies that is not just to appeal to people but to really represent our community and
important and it is still. Everything that is happening and all the problems that our people.”
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