Iconic Italian actor Franco Nero said
Wednesday night he had no plans to retire after recently turning
82.
"I still want to work a lot, even though I've already played all
the role I wanted - all that was lacking were an orchestra
conductor and the Pope, but I got to do them too in the last few
years," the Django and Camelot star joked to ANSA after
receiving a career achievement award at the Filming Italy - Los
Angeles festival.
Nero, whose long relationship with Vanessa Redgrave started on
the Camelot set in 1967, recalled arriving in Hollywood the
previous year for his break-out role as Abel in John Huston's
The Bible: In the Beginning, as well as the iconic Western hero
that inspired Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, in the
Serbio Corbucci-directed Django that same year, 1966.
"The first time I came to Hollywood was 1966. It was beautiful.
Every night partying with Paul Newman, James Stewart or
colleagues of that calibre...Django had just come out in Italy
and they called me to film Camelot".
Camelot, the Parma-born former sex symbol said, where he met
Redgrave and would go on to have a son Carlo, now an actor, with
her, "was John F. Kennedy's favourite film."
Nero said he was probably not going to accept a much-requested
Django sequel now - "I don't feel like getting back on a horse
60 years later, but we'll see" - and said he was looking forward
to his next project, 'Black beans and rice', directed by Robert
Port, who filmed in his latest hit 1944 - The Battle of Cassino.
Django has been good to Nero over the years and Spaghetti
western cultist Tarantino gave Nero a cameo in the 'Unchained'
Jamie Foxx vehicle with Christoph Waltz in 2012, while Italian
director Francesca Comencini put him in her Sky serial Django
last year.
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