American actor Mark
Ruffalo, the two-time Oscar nominee who played the title role in
the Marvel action blockbuster "Hulk in Avengers: Age of Ultron",
is taking in the Amalfi Coast on Friday prior to his appearance
on Saturday as one of the special guests at the Giffoni Film
Festival, an international festival for children's films.
Ruffalo has been touring Italy for a few days together with
his wife Sunrise Coigney, and has been enthusiastically posting
praise on social media for the country of origin of his
Calabrian paternal grandfather.
On Wednesday, Ruffalo posted a selfie from Sorrento on his
Facebook page with the caption "In my motherland Italy. Feeling
very much at home".
After his stay at the 5-star Grand Hotel Excelsior
Vittoria, he publicly thanked "Guido and the staff" of the hotel
on his Facebook page, referring to it as "the original Grand
Budapest Hotel".
On Saturday, Ruffalo will meet the film festival's jury,
unique in that it is made up of young people selected in online
drawings, and will receive the festival's Giffoni Experience
Award.
Also on Saturday, the festival will host Fabio De Luigi, an
Italian comedian who directed the film Tiramisù, and one of the
film's actors, Angelo Duro, famous for his role in the Italian
satirical TV show Le Iene.
De Luigi and Duro will also co-host "Trio Medusa Late
Show", which will be filmed each night of the festival and is
set to be broadcast on Italian TV for six consecutive evenings
starting August 18.
On Saturday, the festival's special event will be a showing
of Oscar winner Pete Docter's Pixar animated film Inside Out,
which takes viewers into the human mind of a young girl,
personified by five emotions.
The film sparked a web contest in Italy that will be
"coached" by the five young Italian actors who provided voices
for the film's characters, two of whom will be at Giffoni for
the screening of Inside Out.
Lodovica Comello, who voices "Joy" in the film, and Tess
Masazza, the voice of "Disgust", are scheduled to walk the film
festival's Blue Carpet on Saturday.
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