Why I'd like to be … Toni Servillo in The Great Beauty — theguardian.com

Let's get this straight from the start: no one's really likely to mistake me for Jep Gambardella, the louche, ageing playboy protagonist played by Toni Servillo in Paolo Sorrentino's 2013 masterpiece The Great Beauty. Jep has been for decades the playful, elegant fulcrum of Rome's high-end social life, a man whose stated and achieved ambition is not just to be invited to all the best events but to possess the very power to make them a failure. I probably don't even have that much influence over my son's birthday parties.

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