Gabriella Giardina tells her "various lives" from Bollywood to Hollywood
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Briefly, can you describe your academic background?
I acquired my academic education at Wistling Woods International Institute of Film, Communication & Media Arts Bollywood. The course structure was extremely interesting because on one hand provides the tools for knowledge and understanding of all roles involved in a production, and on the other puts the students in direct contact with the professional world, into the international film industry. Now in LA I added, to my initial professional activities, an advanced acting course.
I chose the school headed by Michelle Danner, one of the most successful acting coach in Hollywood, just think about how many of her students have achieved Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globe, to name a few. The experience, at this acting studio, is giving me the opportunity to approach different acting techniques, providing me with tools that prepare to face any professional role, doesn’t matter if it belongs to film, theater or television; tools that teach us to rediscover emotions and transfer the potential in a scene, to make interesting and original a character. But Michelle Danner goes beyond it, being the philosophy of her school addressed to the human as well as the artistic growth, and this I think is the reason for the success of many of her students.

Actress and model, which one of your works has been the most important or dearest to you?
Each project is an experience that is equally important and dear, doesn’t matter if it is a film, a photo shoot or a TV commercial. They are different genres that require a different approach but for each one the actor has a great responsibility. It was significant to make an important project for a prestigious magazine as Exhibit or be part of a complex advertising, like that one for Tuborg, and still to have represented a company, such as the American Alor, of Vink&Beri LLC Group, which caters to 11 countries around the globe, which has entrusted me to represent their image, and then expressing great satisfaction. It was extremely gratifying that directors of the caliber of Uzer Khan and Kailash Surendranath, who directed me, have spoken appreciating my technical skill and professional attitude. With the movies the taste changes because the work that is required is different. In the film the character evolves, so there is a large study by the actor and is inspiring to have the opportunity, just as I like to say, "to live different lives". I am therefore been, to name a few, a confused wife manipulated by a psychotic director in the leading role of Veronica, directed by Kunal Madan in The final cut; the student Elizabeth, in the film Yaariyan of T Series Production, perhaps the greatest Indian production company, filmed in India and South Africa; I starred in Suitcase, directed by Mohit Chhabra (young director which has already won international awards), in the role of Katie, a young woman who lives a solitary life, having a companion distracted by friends and alcohol, a role that I found particularly intriguing having taken much recited expression than dialogue. Currently, in Los Angeles, I am Frida in the musical A Night at The Black Cat Cabaret by Brian Drillinger and Michelle Danner, a story that revolves around a comedy set in Paris in 1943, where the elite society and especially soldiers and partisans seek to escape the war, dancing and drinking at the Black Cat Cabaret, however without being able to escape the second World war. All experiences that have had a great flavor and made me grow professionally.

What do these experiences left to you?
The Human experience with the cast, of course, and then the appreciation and professional respect that I have earned, always very important and encouraging for an artist. But it is also the experience of the character itself that stick with you forever. Not necessarily you have to approve him but you have to be able to put yourself in his shoes, have empathy, and, in the end, to be able to also convey to the public his human experience. It happened to me to play the role of a young mother who sees her love for her daughter develop into hatred because she has become the object of desire of her husband who abuses of her. "...I hate her..." clearly expresses towards her daughter an innaturale feeling that I could never agree with, but that woman has lost her interest on life, having lost the man that should have been her lifelong companion. Being an actor means to become the character that you interpret and make his or her story as if you had really lived it on your own skin; this makes you grow every time, even as a person, and perhaps it also does grow the audience too that, through you, in his turn lives and meditates the same experience.