Il Messaggero
January 6, 2024
From cinema to diets, through the relationship with Terence Hill, Giuseppe Pedersoli, son of Bud Spencer, remembered his father in a long interview, revealing anecdotes and retracing the most important moments of a very long career, between cinema, sports and music.
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The interview
Actor, director, sportsman, musician and also pilot. Bud Spencer was this and much more. His son Giuseppe Pedersoli, a screenwriter and producer for cinema and TV, told about it in an interview with the "Corriere della Sera". From the father-son relationship to a career between sports and cinema, the 62-year-old retraced the life of the great actor, focusing on the most important moments and on funny anecdotes. Many of which, far from home: "From '67 onwards he shot three or four films a year, for ten, eleven months he was away. We hardly ever saw him. When he came back he filled us with gifts. Electric trains and airplanes, which he liked. We rarely went on set, not even to Campo Imperatore, in Abruzzo, where they shot the Trinity. His and Terence's success was immediate and explosive, they were unprepared. Kidnappings were then the order of the day, he was afraid for us. At 15 he took me to Hong Kong, I remember the plane landing in a dive between skyscrapers. For my sister Cristiana's 18th birthday, he organized a party in the desert, next to the Pyramids, that's how he was. He spoke little of his acting work, with detachment, as if every movie could be the last, he made it to 100. He was much more excited about sports achievements, for the adventure at the Olympics, perhaps the happiest moment of his life".
Then there was the relationship with Terence Hill, with whom he didn't know how to deal: "Dad called him Mario - the only one who could - he Carlo. Off set they were two big shy guys who didn't know how to get along. Terence is good and kind, but very introverted. And then, when he wasn't working, he lived in the United States. They must have gone out to dinner together three times in their lives. Occasionally he came to us for mom's spaghetti. On stage, however, they transformed, there was real emotion between them, a perfect harmony was created".
In addition to Terence Hill, there was another thing Bud
Spencer couldn't get along with: diets. "He always started with a load of
spaghetti, oil and tomatoes. Once he seasoned them with cornflakes. His trailer
was crowded, the seamstress Ida cooked. If you made him two kg of pasta he
could eat them all. He went to Messegué, in Switzerland. They presented him
with a tray with two baked pears. At which he jumped out of the first floor
window and ran to the rotisserie. The second time they made him pay ten days in
advance, he lasted two. The famous evening of Italy-Germany 4 to 3, with the
producer Italo Zingarelli, 180 kilos himself, they finished off 60 meatballs
and I don't know how many cod fillets", concluded his son Giuseppe
Pedersoli.
[Submitted by Michael Ferguson]
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