stay on. However, life stories never go quite so smoothly, whether
we are in Italy or North America.
“The financial crisis came along, many people lost their jobs,
and so did I. Suddenly I was unemployed in Manhattan. Things
were grim, but I told myself I still had time to go back to what had
always been my true passion: acting. I went to auditions, I was
accepted at an important school, and I began acting”. Jacopo has
recently bought a house - a modern, clean, and elegant apartment
right in front of an elementary school in Harlem. The only noises
are those of children at play. New York constantly changes and
amazes: who knows what this street was like when I was a boy,
in the 1990s? It must have been more chaotic, before it became the
relatively calm residential zone it is today. “Over the years I have
lived in many neighbourhoods. Just like other aspects of life, trying
different neighbourhoods has been like a roller coaster, like having
multiple lives, the highs and the lows. After the publishing house
I worked as a waiter in Brooklyn and the East Village; I lived in
Brooklyn ten years ago, when it was still not so trendy; I had two
roommates; then in SoHo I lived with five other people; afterwards
I moved to the East Village and then the Upper West Side.
At a certain point I went back to live with my parents because I had
no place to stay. It was strange, difficult, but maybe necessary.
One evening I served dinner to Barack Obama in the restaurant
where I was working.
Today, I feel good here. I feel like finally having a place of my
own is good for my work, as if I had found some balance for the
first time,” unless one day a call arrives from Los Angeles - the
marvellous risk run by all actors. “Who knows? Maybe at a certain
point I will have to live a bit here and a bit there. I don’t think
California is the right place for me. I wouldn’t like to have to always
move around in a car for example, but in the end it’s the work that
calls the shots. Somehow – and maybe it’s the fault of that poster
from my college days – wherever I go to pursue my career, I will
always be a New Yorker”.
District: Harlem
Jacopo a New York.
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