SPECTRE actor Alessandro Bressanello´s interview by 007 Travelers

November 3, 2015 0 By 007 Travelers

Who: “SPECTRE” (2015) actor Alessandro Bressanello (Priest)
Interview: 3 November 2015
Photos: Alessandro Bressanello´s album except 007 photos

007 Travelers is honoured to have an interview of “SPECTRE” actor Alessandro Bressanello who was seen as Priest in the movie and in the official teaser trailer as well.

About Alessandro Bressanello:

He began working as a musician in the ’60s and then devote himself to study theater. Opened in 1976 Tag – Teatro Alla Justice in Mestre. From 1980 to 1990 he was president of the cooperative Tag Theatre, where he worked as an actor and a director, producing numerous shows that have travelled all over the world. In 1992, after the closure of the cooperative, founded with other Venetian artists the Teatro Niovo.

Since 1995 he opened his own company, Produzioni Teatrali Veneziane, with whom he still works, producing numerous shows, while also working in other fields such as the Carnival of Venice and the organization of major street-events, as well as the production of large-scale events in different countries of Europe.

Alessandro Bressanello specializes in the theater of the Commedia dell’Arte and held numerous master classes in Italy and abroad about it, but he also dealt with stagings of baroque operas and contemporary theater. As an actor, director and producer has worked in Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Austria, Yugoslavia, Russia, Greece, Turkey, England, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Malta, Brazil, Mexico, USA.

In addition to theater, he starred in over 50 films among which: “Casanova” by L. Hallstrom 2004, “La fattoria delle allodole” by Fratelli Taviani, “The Fakir of Venice” by A. Surapur, “Come dio comanda” by G. Salvatore, “Romanzo di una strage” by M.T. Giordana, “Tuscan Wedding” by J. Nijenhuis, “Der weg nach San Jose” by R.S. Richter , “Antonio in Wunderland” by S. Unterwaldt, “Spectre” by S. Mendes.

1. You had a role as Priest in “SPECTRE“. Tell about your role and the filming of this movie.
It’s the priest celebrating the funeral of the husband of Lucia Sciarra (Monica Bellucci). It’s a small role, just one scene, but to be in a Bond movie it’s always a “big role” in your life.

The picture is taken during the filming of the “SPECTRE“.
Photo from the official “SPECTRE” teaser trailer

2. How was Sam Mendes as a director and Italian Bond lady Monica Bellucci as an actress in the same funeral scene with you?
It was the first day of shooting in Italy and Rome, everybody was a little nervous, but everything went well, I knew Mrs Bellucci from another film (“Sangue pazzo” by M.T. Giordana) so I didn’t have any problem to talk and act with her.

3. You are an actor, director and producer. Tell us about your other movies, which one was the hardest or the best project to do so far?

The best project is the last movie I’ve done this year “Antonio in Wunderland“, a german prod. by Bavaria and Fox Int. I had the main role of Antonio, we have been shooting two months in Germany and New York and was very hard to act in German. Of course the little role in “SPECTRE” is something unforgettable.

4.Your favourite Bond actor?
Sean Connery, he is the first and the only, by the way, Daniel Craig is not bad.

5. Your favourite Bond film?
“Goldfinger” (1964), the first I have seen.