Interview With "La Grazia" Star Toni Servillo

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

"La Grazia" is an Italian drama film written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It stars Toni Servillo as the President of Italy, Mariano De Santis, a staunch Catholic and experienced jurist, who is conflicted about whether he should sign into law a bill legalizing euthanasia, and at the same time has to consider the pardon petitions of two individuals who murdered their partners. The film had its world premiere as the opening film of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, where Servillo won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. Servillo was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his experience working on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is opening in theaters on December 5th from MUBI. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview as the star of LaBrasia.
0:05.8	Tony Servio
0:06.7	Ancura.
0:06.9	Again six months and you're going to your house your.
0:09.3	Rest the fact that you're going to be a great president of the republic.
0:14.3	Doverbe always firm the law on the right of eutanasia.
0:18.8	Affirmary.
0:20.2	Firmary that leg, it requires a question that you not possibly. If not firm, I'm a torturator. If I'm an assassin. I've envied two requests of grace. If concedes this grace, the opinion public, me massacereb. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the next best picture podcast, where I'm being joined
0:40.7	right now by the star of Palos Orantino's LaGrazia.
0:45.5	Everyone, the great Tony Sevilleo.
0:48.5	Grazie.
0:49.3	Thank you very much.
0:50.6	And the Italian interpreter over here, Alessandra, thank you so much for assisting. Thank you so much. It's my pleasure. Thank you. And the Italian interpreter over here, Alessandra, thank you so much for assisting.
0:55.9	Thank you so much.
0:56.9	It's my pleasure.
0:57.9	Thank you.
0:58.7	So, Tony, you have now worked with Paolo.
1:02.4	I believe it's seven films at this point.
1:05.4	Yes.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:06.8	Yes.
1:07.4	Tell me about how that working relationship has evolved over the last 20 plus years.
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