Sky presented Lawyer Ligas, the new TV series legal drama with Luca Argentero, from the novel “A complicated case for lawyer Ligas. Losers.” by Gianluca Ferraris. The series will debut with the first two episodes on Sky Atlantic on March 6. From the next Friday it will go on Sky and NOW with a new episode a week, until 3 April. The series is produced by Sky Studios and Fabula Pictures and is directed by Fabio Paladini. To the writing Federico Baccomo, Jean Ludwigg, Leonardo Valenti, Matteo Bozzi, Camilla Buizza and Francesco Tosco.
Avvocato Ligas, le dichiarazioni di Luca Argentero
Luca Argentero: “After interpreting the positive hero for many years at all costs, it’s fun to confront the shadow areas, with weaknesses, it’s the thing that immediately seemed attractive. I read the scripts of the book first, a huge job was done. It’s not like I felt I’d shake off who knows that blouse… without any reference… but just to turn to a different audience. I was trying to deal with a different editorial line. This freedom that is simply calling things with its own name without words, is an interesting aspect that is related to the broadcaster, so to Sky”.
“I didn’t do great preparation because I came to the tail to a long project like Motorvalley, so I didn’t have time to make who knows how many readings with others too. This confirms how the text was already ready did not need adjustments. Going back to work with Cristina Marino made me very pleased because we met on the set, we made two children and now she’s coming back to work. I would like to stay at home, letting her work.”.
“The gin tonic is gas water, there are no other aids. I’m kidding, but to say I didn’t do any particular work. On the contrary, I felt guilty not to have done a great preparation, not to have even done costume tests, even we did test chambers that I still had Motorvalley’s cousin. I am very pleased with the result and I do not know if this is the right key to do so.”.
“I think Ligas is all I want to be but that I can’t be, a little for my torenisity, sometimes I’d like to have his arrogance.” “If I have to think of some references to me, it refers to the world of Better Call Saul, even in the frames, a great stylistic research that is noticed by looking at the series”.
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Le altre dichiarazioni
Giuseppe De Bellis, Executive Vice President Entertainment, Sport and News of Sky Italia: “It has built a fantastic story that starts from themes that sink their roots into reality but then it is developed in various ways. Surely we were interested in bringing the legal drama that internationally is increasingly present, but with a characteristic figure, between themes and irony.”.
Nils Hartmann, Executive Vice President Sky Studios Italia: “Everything from the book, the novel immediately fascinated me, then came Baccamo who wrote it because without a good script there is no good series. Then came a director, Fabio Paladini, who had never run a series, giving a footprint. Luca Argentero, in my opinion, has found his ideal role. We will turn season 2 and 3 together“.
Nicola and Marco De Angelis, co-CEO of Fabula Pictures: “Working with Sky freedom tools is always beautiful. We came from A Summer ago with Sky and this accompanies such different projects.”.
Fabio Paladini, director of the series: “The challenge was to enter a genre like the law trying to give it liveliness and rhythm. Writing gave me a beautiful hook to create something that had its dynamism. Ligas has a vision of the world, I managed to get into his head. We gave rhythm by keeping faith to a protagonist who asked to be told in this way”. “Some references I’ve had are series that have complex characters such as Mr. Robot or Patrick Melrose”
Federico Baccomo, headwriter of the series (also lawyer): “Put so many things together, I’ve been a lawyer for 7 years, I was a business lawyer and I felt like a failure. I created a blog by anonymizing the life of lawyers, my career as a screenwriter was born there. This was a closing of a circle, I also knew the author of the novel. The strength of this type of stories is to bring a challenge to the viewer. Ligas feels a cryptological figure that takes these losers into charge, which in the end is a bit a loser but hides it.”
“The work was the balance of the different parts in question, to make sure that the character as exciting as it was in the book so that the stories could widen, also giving depth to the character.”.
Barbara Chichiarelli is the PM ‘adviser’ of Ligas: “Impossible not to be fascinated by this character. Anti-heroes take us there where we don’t think we’re going. I did not have a specific reference, except for the great intellectual challenges.”
Gaia Messerklinger, interprets the ex-wife, also she lawyer: “Patrizia knows Ligas and Lorenzo very well, he knows when to turn to each other. The beautiful thing is that our characters have an irony that creates a harmony between them. I think Patrizia had a past from Ligas but she realized that after the birth of her daughter something had to change. She loves him.”
Flavio Furno, Paolo best friend of Ligas: “I assumed they were very good lawyers. Ligas has such an excessive charism that it is so far away from his friend. The question is, therefore, whether there may be envy even in friendship, because we see envy as something that should remove others. I suffered two injustices: one is the comb that I had to bring, the other is that we had to make the scene in the sauna with Luke and I was ashamed of his body.”.
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Il ruolo di Milano
Paladini: “A city that needed to be shown, told under which many details are hidden, like the losers of Ligas.”
Hartman: “I grew up here, the city changed a lot and needed to tell it, from the beginning we wanted to tell it.”
Silver: “Ligas and Milan have the same rapidity of thought, the same frenzy, a little what I do not have.”.
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