Daria Nicolodi(1949-2020)

Mother of Asia Argento. Grandmother of Anna Lou Castoldi and Nicola Giovanni Civetta (Asia's children).

I wrote Alarido (1977) for Dario Argento; title, subject and script. The inspiration came from a tale my grandmother, Yvonne, used to tell me when I was a child, after an experience she had in a northern acting academy where she discovered the teachers were teaching arts, but also black magic. I was fond of this story of hers more than Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, and when I told it to Dario it was natural for him to fall in love with it too. It was his first step from thrillers to fantasy-alchemy movies and we did it together. [an interview with Christian Sellers of GoreZone Magazine UK]