The film "Laura Pausini, piacere di conoscerti", available on Prime Video from April 7, was presented today in Rome. The world's most famous Italian artist answered journalists' questions and revealed the context for her new project. "How would my life have been without the victory in Sanremo in 1993? ", this is the question with which Laura Pausini presented today in Rome " Laura Pausini , piacere di conoscerti", the film – available on Prime Video from April 7 – which tells the life and career of the artist known throughout the world and that of a woman who, Despite a defeat, is proud of herself and feels fulfilled.
The Prime Video proposal
A few years ago , Nicole (editor's note, Nicole Morganti – Head of Italian Originals, Amazon Studios) came to offer me to make a documentary. I thought it was too much complacency. People who follow me and listen to my music already know my story, which I did. I couldn't bring myself to do something like that. Then, two years ago, around February 2020, just before the first lockdown, I woke up one night and started writing this story on my phone that has been in my head for 29 years. I had a lot of time to give myself answers. I just imagined, many times as if it were reality, how my life would have gone if I hadn't won Sanremo. I read to Nicole what I had written that night and from there we started doing "Laura Pausini, piacere di conoscerti".
The relationship with director Ivan Cotroneo
I was offered as director Ivan Cotroneo whom I did not know yet and who "thanks to the confinement" I was able to live in a very particular way. He practically lived with me for a year at home: not only asking me questions, but also calling the people closest to me and who knew me well until the age of 18 – my family members, my school friends. He realized, from their testimonies, that I had not changed and that I was still the same Laura. From that moment I understood that I was not satisfying my personal "whim", but that I would have lived for 2 months what I had imagined.
Finding yourself, the message of the film
During filming, I realized that I wasn't just fulfilling my wish, but actually sending a message to everyone who was going to see the film. This story is meant to help you find yourself. I think that each of us, in the course of our lives, has wondered – at least once – what would have happened if we had chosen another direction. I experienced this feeling and I wanted to say it. It was very intense. During the lockdown, precisely because each of us had more time, I realized that I had to make a summary of my life until that precise moment. Ironically, this desire to study myself became even more present, and to see me as I had always dreamed until the age of 18.
Fame is a life lesson for all of us
I never dreamed of becoming famous. Maybe because I was born in a small town and in another generation. Compared to today, there wasn't all this frenzy of glory. I wanted to play in a restaurant, but I had never seen a single woman do it. So for me, the challenge was this ("when I grow up, I will be the first woman from Romagna to play in a restaurant"). I have always been very attracted to challenges, complicated things. They saw me sing, they sent me to audition for different record companies and Warner signed me up for Sanremo: however, being a member is one thing, participating is another.
The "box" of memories of Laura Pausini
The search for the material was beautiful, but very complicated. I had something. My father, since I won Sanremo, has made my house the headquarters of my Fanclub. Even now, it's become like a museum, so I already look like I'm dead. There are all Sanremo's clothes, and much more. There are also the main clothes of the film. There are also things I had before I turned 18 because my dad didn't throw anything away. The box the girl opens at one point is a box I found in an attic in my parents' house during lockdown. During my trip, I talked to my parents, they were in the places that raised me. I attach myself to things and I cannot change them, so many things exist for this reason.
The crisis during confinement
During the lockdown, I got into a kind of crisis. I didn't expect what happened to me last year with the Golden Globe and the Oscar. I felt a little guilty that this thing was happening to me, when everyone around me was sick. I didn't understand why I should come back to me. I knew and was aware that the one who has fame owes it to luck and a destiny written by someone older than us, but I also knew that fame can last a year. I know the commitment I put into it: I devoted 24 hours a day to this job that is my life. But everything I've tried to experience over the years, I didn't want it to be a self-celebration in this film. I wanted it to be more of an introspective journey.
Laura Pausini: Feeling fulfilled
Even if we are taught that the only purpose of life is to win, to be the first, the best in one area, the number one in the other; Feeling fulfilled is not synonymous with glory. I made this film because it's very important for me to explain to you that from my point of view, fulfillment is not due to a reward I have at home, it's not because people know my face, or that I have financial privileges. That is not what fills me up. I would like the new generation to understand that when we come to the end of our lives and we really make a summary of who we are, at that moment we will ask ourselves the most important question of our lives: "Were we happy? Did we do what we wanted? ». At that time, there will be no public who will give you a vote, there will be no one who will give you a prize, there will be only you. There is one very important moment in the film in particular: the famous Laura singing "Destination Paradise" in San Siro and the not-so-famous Laura singing the same song in a restaurant. What is the difference between the two scenes? The number of people? Because I sing it the same way and I decided to sing the same song for a very specific reason: meaning. Who told you it was better at the stadium? Have you ever thought about what we singers can think in our hearts? I tried to make you understand it with this scene. It is obvious that I was beside myself when I sang at San Siro, but I was also beside myself when I sang in the restaurant. I don't like it when my 9-year-old daughter focuses on tastes, fame, poses. That worries me. I want to try to explain to him that you still have a career even if you decide to play the piano and you manage to make a living from it. I wanted to play the piano in the evening and work as an architect and ceramist during the day. These options/possibilities were not for me to satisfy, they were gassings. I wouldn't want people to be satisfied and today I know that many people are forced to do so, but sometimes they are also satisfied because they did not commit or did not try when they had the opportunity. 
Defeat and knowing how to lose
We were not educated to overcome. I think this is a very serious problem, a mistake. I was fortunate to see this great teaching in my daughter's eyes. When I left for the Golden Globes, I never imagined I would be able to win them, but when I left, I came back with this award. I went for the Oscar, I didn't win. On the contrary, I lost and I came back, and I was the same as before. It is a teaching, a great fortune that my daughter had and that I did not have children. We are taught that we must win, we must be the strongest in our field. I decided to make this film to show how much more fulfillment is than fame and how important it is to know victory and be proud of yourself in defeat.
