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“I wanted to be very humble and tell my story the way it’s been with only the truth.”
Rocco Siffredi reveals he went through more than 20 drafts of his monologue for his new one-man show titled “Rocco Tells Rocco.”
The legendary performer/director launched his tour in Italy in July with plans for future shows in Paris, Switzerland, London and New York.
In “Rocco Tells Rocco,” the Italian superstar shares stories about his life and career in an hour-and-a-half monologue complete with pictures and video. During the last 10 minutes of his presentation his wife of thirty years, Rosa, joins him on stage.
“I wrote it the whole summer,” Siffredi explains. “It’s about porn, my work, the whole up and down life. I don’t talk about bad stuff, mostly it’s fun and light. Many people laugh... I talk about the ‘80s and ‘90s and today’s porn and the difference. People love it. I’m starting in Italy and then I start to go around Europe.”
Siffredi entertained over 2000 people at his show at the Arcimboldi Theater in Milan on Oct. 29. On Nov. 4, he presented to another packed house at the Alfieri Theater in Turin.
Rocco at press time planned to take his show to the Brancaccio Theater in Rome on Nov. 18, followed by a stop at Celebration Theater in Bologna on Nov. 20; then he was scheduled to visit Verdi Theater in Montecatini Terme, a town in Tuscany, on Nov. 22 with many more to come.
Rocco says he experimented with the format during three “pre-shows” beginning on July 15 in Livorno, followed by outings in Milan and Varese.
“I did three pre-shows before I started the main one,” Siffredi tells AVN from his home in Budapest, Hungary. “I did Firenze [Florence] 10 days ago [on Oct. 22].”
The first version of “Rocco Tells Rocco” clocked in at over three hours—and he knew it had to be trimmed.
“I had so many stories and I had to make a choice, I had to make a balance,” Siffredi explains. “My main goal was not to point any finger toward anybody and not to be political. “I wanted to be very humble and tell my story the way it’s been with only the truth. Of course I’m talking about sexuality. But only how sex in porn changed from the 80s until
today. I talk about all this in a sincere way.
“Finally, people love it.”
Siffredi tells AVN he was inspired to create the show after seeing former world
heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tyson do something similar.
“The whole idea comes from Mike Tyson’s show directed by Spike Lee,” Rocco says,
referring to “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth.”
Shot in 2012, Tyson performed the show on Broadway in New York and in Las Vegas—
he later filmed it for HBO.
“I saw Mike Tyson where he was telling his life and laughing and crying and joking. I
was like what the fuck, I’m big fan of Mike and I said this is incredible. Right away, I was like mamma mia! I want to do the same,” Siffredi says.
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