Il 24 settembre 2024 Prime Video aveva organizzato a Londra un evento speciale per presentare le serie Citadel: Diana e Citadel: Honey Bunny, spin-off italiano e indiano della serie principale Citadel. Ospiti d'onore le tre attrici protagoniste: Priyanka Chopra (Citadel), Matilda De Angelis (Diana), e Samantha Prabhu (Honey Bunny) accompagnata dai registi Raj & DK. Citadel: Diana (trailer) è disponibile sulla piattaforma streaming Prime Video dal 10 ottobre 2024, Citadel: Honey Bunny (trailer) dal 7 novembre 2024. Video ufficiale di celebrazione delle tre serie, con dichiarazioni del cast - inclusa Matilda.
Il primo ottobre 2024, sempre nella capitale britannica, Priyanka e Matilda avevano inoltre partecipato all'evento Prime Video Presents: Trailblazers. Priyanka in ottobre era a Londra per le riprese della seconda stagione di Citadel.
Vedi anche: Priyanka Chopra a Roma: evento Citadel, 23 aprile 2023
Vi segnalo l'articolo Citadel-Diana's Matilda De Angelis: ‘Watched Priyanka after I had shot for my Citadel’, di Mayank Shekhar, pubblicato da Mid-Day l'11 ottobre 2024:
'“I was over for the London première of Citadel and watched Priyanka Chopra for the first time,” says Italian lead actor, Matilda De Angelis, from Citadel Diana. (...) By then, Matilda says, she had already shot for her own show: “So, I couldn’t take anything from Priyanka’s performance in Citadel [into mine]. But I just thought to myself - please, let me be, at least, as good as her!” In the series, Matilda plays spy Diana. That’s pronounced ‘Dee-a-naa’, the Italian way. As against ‘Die-a-naa’ for the late princess, from London - where Mid-Day exclusively met Matilda, along with her showrunner, executive producer, Gina Gardini. (...)
The final frame of Citadel (2023) lets out that there will be Diana. One wonders, if the Indian version was planned alongside. Gina says, “We started at the same time, five-and-a-half years ago. The fantastic part of the experience was the [Indian and Italian] showrunners, writers, would get together every two weeks, to spend two hours on Zoom, to check where we were at [in the writing process].” Which is different from a common writers’ room “that involves 27 people, over 10 months, breaking down episodes. Our mission from the Russos and to Raj & DK [creators from India] was the shows have to stand on their own. The idea isn’t [to develop] interconnected stories, like Marvel. There are, however, several winks in both shows - subtle easter eggs for super-fans, where Diana’s world is in Honey Bunny, and Citadel itself.” That Italy and India got picked first for expanding the Citadel spy-verse, appears natural to Gina: “Histories of cinema in both countries go back a hundred years, with strong cultural identities. Our family values are similar. Also, despite genres, we try and tell deeply emotional stories. This isn’t just true for Diana and Honey Bunny, but the overarching Citadel as well.”
While Matilda would like to be favourably compared to Priyanka in her Italian Citadel, what she has in common with the dually hyphenated (Bollywood-Hollywood) star is she’s also a singer. To drill in the fact of how big Matilda is, back home, the Italian press in London - rightly mesmerised by her performance in the show’s first episode première - told Mid-Day, what beats everything else is, she’s hosted Sanremo! Matilda laughs, “Can you imagine? I did 20 movies, but the time I conducted that one show, everybody got to know me, what am I doing [with myself]!” And what’s Sanremo? “It’s our Super Bowl.” Only, that instead of sport/American football, it involves Italy’s top musicians competing annually, as if on Indian Idol, that the whole nation is collectively hooked to. Matilda doesn’t sing in Citadel. For her favourite musical movie-moment, she points us to “the sequence of singing and acting in the film, Robbing Mussolini - really proud of that scene” .'
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| Priyanka Chopra, Samantha Prabhu, Matilda De Angelis, Raj & DK |
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| Evento Prime Video Presents: Trailblazers |
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