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My Sicily<br />
Sicily<br />
in my heart<br />
by Luigi Ferro<br />
Maria Grazia Cucinotta<br />
relates her Sicily. And<br />
does so with the passion<br />
of a true lover of this<br />
wonderful land.<br />
The phone-call is<br />
difficult, the line<br />
keeps dropping<br />
because there’s<br />
not much field<br />
in the zone. But<br />
Maria Grazia<br />
Cucinotta keeps<br />
calling back. She is<br />
there to relate her Sicily and doesn’t want<br />
to miss the opportunity. The actress is a<br />
world-famous symbol of Mediterranean<br />
beauty, but she has decided to leave<br />
this role, becoming<br />
first a producer and<br />
then the director of a<br />
documentary, for she<br />
has close links with her<br />
land and is proud of<br />
her origins.<br />
She lived in the<br />
island till she was 18, when she moved to<br />
Milan where her career took off. Model,<br />
mannequin and then actress. Always with<br />
Sicily in her heart.<br />
What were your early years like?<br />
“My birth in Sicily gave me a wonderful<br />
childhood, it was like we were billionaires<br />
even though really we were poor. Because<br />
Sicily makes you rich even if you’ve got<br />
nothing. From Caribbean-style sea to hills<br />
and the mountains of Etna. A stupendous<br />
landscape that I’m actually getting to know<br />
better now than when I was young”.<br />
What are the places of your heart?<br />
“My thoughts go to Messina, of course, but<br />
also to the Aeolian Islands, our first stoppingplace<br />
when we set out to discover the world.<br />
But I also remember crossing the Straits.<br />
The time we took the ferry and went to the<br />
Tasting Sicily n.01/2013
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