“Look at my little scars,” Antonia Desplat showing off the marks on her elbows, “I entered the cemetery twirling and fell face forward on a tombstone. It’s in the film but was not in the script. Riccardo tried to pick me up but I’m a tall girl and he fell too, in hysterics. We went through the whole scene like that. Johnny came out at the end saying, ‘this is the movie magic I’ve been talking about! But can we have a medic? She’s bleeding…’”
Riccardo is Scamarcio, who takes the title role on Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, and Johnny is Depp, the director and producer of the film, which is a biopic snapshot of the poverty-stricken life of the Italian artist Modigliani in war-torn Paris in 1916. It’s a very Johnny Depp film, kind of Fear and Loathing in Montparnasse, where you can almost taste the wine and smoke as Modi struggles for his artistic soul among his equally deranged bohemian friends.
