water and soap? The movie where we all ended up at the doctor. The troupe was exterminated by nerve gas after two plates of bucatini by Sora Lella: the actor and director Carlo Verdone, guest of the show Che Tempo che fa by Fabio Fazio, narrated the story and elicited thunderous laughter from some of his best viewers famous films. Among them Acqua e Sapone: a cult film that turns forty this year, in which Elena Fabrizi (Sora Lella) played the role of Nonna Ines and, as always, brought to the set her great acting skills but also her unforgettable culinary talents, what made for some amusing setbacks for the staff.
The chief electrician says to him: “Sora Lella, you are a great cook at lunch instead of these big baskets, but will you make us two bucatini all’amatriciana?” And Sora Lella replied: “Me cojoni! Give me a Feldtopf” Verdone began to recall an anecdote that is now part of cinema history. And then, with his gripping sympathy, he continued: From that day on, one day amatriciana, one day carbonara, one gricia, one farfalle with tuna. But what happened was that we lost our rhythm. It is forbidden to eat carbohydrates on set. Anyone who makes a film like this never recovers, Verdone observed.
Sora Lella’s recipes
You understand that two dishes of Pasta de Sora Lella were overdone. After lunch we were tired, so we always worked overtime.
In short, Sora Lella’s dishes were too heavy to digest but obviously also too good to say no, and so the production began to pile up delay after delay, irritating producer Marchio Cecchi Gori. Which in turn Sora Lellas Amatriciana couldn’t resist. One day – continued Verdone – Cecchi Gori comes on the set angrily and asks: “Why are you working overtime?”. Nobody had the courage to tell the truth. Then Sora Lella asks him: “Sor Mario, do you want to try it?”. And yes, Cecchi Gori liked it, and he did an encore too. Moral? There is a photo of the whole crew that day, twenty minutes after lunch, asleep on the chair. A crew wiped out by nerve gas. The only one awake was the organizer, who hadn’t had lunch but couldn’t do anything at that point, concluded Verdone, also admitting that by the end of the film he was 4 kilos heavier.
January 23, 2023 (change January 23, 2023 | 15:01)
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