Massimo Troisi collapsed due to a serious heart condition three days into filming Il Postino. It came down to me whether he should continue
It is almost 17 years since the death of Massimo Troisi, the star of my film Il Postino, yet he is as present in my life as he was when he lived. There was nothing overtly Neapolitan about him, except for his accent, which was so thick it took me months to understand. That amused him a lot.
Practically his entire life was marked by illness. He'd contracted rheumatic fever, the illness of the poor, when he was young, and it had damaged his heart. After a quadruple bypass when he was 19, he knew that sooner or later he was going to need a heart transplant. He bore it without complaint. But it gave him a profundity at a young age that gave his humour a real meaning.
It is almost 17 years since the death of Massimo Troisi, the star of my film Il Postino, yet he is as present in my life as he was when he lived. There was nothing overtly Neapolitan about him, except for his accent, which was so thick it took me months to understand. That amused him a lot.
Practically his entire life was marked by illness. He'd contracted rheumatic fever, the illness of the poor, when he was young, and it had damaged his heart. After a quadruple bypass when he was 19, he knew that sooner or later he was going to need a heart transplant. He bore it without complaint. But it gave him a profundity at a young age that gave his humour a real meaning.
- 2011-03-31
- The Guardian - Film News
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