When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

In my culture, my mother's sisters are also my mother. And my father's sisters are my mother's, too. So I have many mothers. My mom has a fierce love for her children. And she's known to say things like if you die I'll kill you.

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

We're living in a time where we want to be entertained but I think part of what people are looking for, that they don't even know they're looking for is to be uplifted in many ways.