A meeting at the top. This Monday, June 16, Al Pacino met Léon XIV during an official audience. The American actor is the first Hollywood star to meet the new Pope, chosen on May 8, as a press release of the producer Andrea Iervolino, also present in the informed place as reported as reported Variety.
He declares that this meeting, which took place as part of the next launch of the feature film. Maserati: the brothers, It was “a moment of deep spiritual and cultural inspiration, focused on the common values that are in the heart of the Catholic Church and the film: family unity, love, compassion and importance of contributing to the common good.”
The feature film about the Maserati family, produced by Bobby Moresco, has an impressive cast with, in addition to Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Andy García, Jessica Alba, Salvatore Esposito (series Gomorra) o Michele Morrone (trilogy 365 days).
The very popular papio in the cinema
The film will focus on the rivalry of the Automotive family business with its Italian competitors who are Ferrari and Lamborghini than in the papacy. But many filmmakers have been interested in the Vatican in recent years.
This is, for example, Edward Berger’s case with ConclavePublished in theaters on December 4 in France and that had a success renewed by the death of Pope Francis, on April 22 as reported Variety. For a good reason, the feature film inspired by Robert Harris’s homonymous novel recounts the course of a pontifical choice organized by a cardinal played by Ralph Fiennes.
Before that, Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce played Benoît XVI and François in The two potatoes (2019) From Fernando Meirelles in Netflix, who illustrated the meeting between the sovereign pontiff from 2005 to 2013 and his successor that everything opposed. On the series side, it is the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino who lent himself to the game with The young Pope (2016) and its suite The new Pope (2020) where the law of Judas is in the role of Pope Pius XIII.
Source: BFM TV
