![]() ![]() I think she he had never got over the divorce and carried on loving my dad till the day she died. She was overweight and she smoked and drank and never exercised and the last 10 years of her life she reeled from one illness to the other. ![]() She would come back stage and say, “Freddo-that’s the best thing you ever did.” And I learned from her that when one of your kids is trying their hardest it’s not the best time to offer them the benefit of your critique. My mum cam to see everything I was ever inĪnd, boy, did she see me in some s**t! But she would always turn up in her best fake fur coat and pearls. It was upsetting because I had never known he was proud of me and I would have loved to have the conversation with him. He had remarried and, after his death, his second wife showed me a huge suitcase full of photos and clippings and copies of reviews of everything that I had been in. I regret falling out with my dad towards the end of his life When I told my dad I’d turned it down in favour of a small part in a fringe play he gave me the kind of look that he reserved for the lost and the mad. I filled in as a waiter myself after the Guild Hall and was even offered the chance to train as an assistant manager. He worked in catering-as a waiter, bar tender and restaurant manager-and for him it was all about paying your bills and providing for your family, like a real man. He considered actors to be homosexual, drug addicts and he thought it wasn’t a career for a bloke. My father didn't get my desire to be an actor But it turned out that, actually, he was a stone mason! My mother, massaging English in the way that she always did, used to claim I was artistic because her own father was ‘a sculptor’. I can’t even say I had an uncle who was a clown and ran away to the circus. There was no hint of the artistic gene in my family I became an actor in my head, playing to an audience of one. So, I spent a great deal of time on my own in my teens and I retreated into my imagination where I could be anybody. But it was the 60s and people didn’t think so much about the welfare of children. I stayed with my mum and my brother went with my dad-something that would never happen today. It was difficult because my brother and I got split up too. I was tall for a seven-year-old and there’s a picture of me standing head and shoulders above these cool West Indian and Irish kids dressed in a f***g sailor suit… like something out of Anchors Aweigh! I grew up speaking three languages that I still use today, with varying degrees of competence.Īll the other kids in my class were dressed in shorts and blazers, but in Italy and Spain a sailor suit is traditional and my mum had one made for me and shipped over. My mum lived through the Second World War in Italy and immigrated shortly after. ![]() He came to England as a refugee from the Civil War and joined the British army’s pioneer corps. But I inherited the tendency to show love in the same way when I became a parent myself. I loved it, of course-except when I was a teenager-when it became a bit embarrassing. She was constantly kissing, hugging and squeezing me and other people, too. She was absolutely operatic in so many things-the way she cooked, for example, and especially the way that she showered me with love. She was Italian and life in our family revolved around food, love and guilt. My mum, Giovanna's, great displays of affection I was so into it that, eventually, the show’s director, Sister Mary Kenneth, who I had a big crush on, had to silence me with a finger raised to her lips.Īnother kid might have been discouraged but my intention to become an actor started there at the age of five and by nine I was declaring it daily. When the Angel Gabriel-a vision of cardboard and feathers-appeared I fell to my knees gasping with awe. I was at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Kensal Rise and I was one of the shepherds-complete with tea towel headdress and crepe paper beard. He looks back on his star-studded career. Award winning actor, Alfred Molina has starred in many stage and screen productions including the movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Enchanted April, Frida and the Broadway show, Art. ![]()
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