“I still want to work a lot, even though I’ve already played all the roles I wanted - all that was lacking were an orchestra conductor and the Pope, but I got to do them too in the last few years,” the Django and Camelot star joked to ANSA.
The actor had just received a career achievement award at the Filming Italy - Los Angeles festival.
Nero, whose long relationship with Vanessa Redgrave started on the Camelot set in 1967, recalled arriving in Hollywood the previous year for his break-out role as Abel in John Huston’s The Bible: In the Beginning, as well as the iconic western hero that inspired Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, in the Serbio Corbucci-directed Django that same year, 1966.
“The first time I came to Hollywood was 1966. It was beautiful,” Nero said.
“Every night partying with Paul Newman, James Stewart or colleagues of that calibre ... Django had just come out in Italy, and they called me to film Camelot.”
Camelot, the Parma-born former sex symbol said, “was John F. Kennedy’s favourite film”.
Nero said he was probably not going to accept a much-requested Django sequel now - “I don’t feel like getting back on a horse 60 years later, but we’ll see”.
He also said he was looking forward to his next project, Black beans and rice, directed by Robert Port.
Django has been good to Nero over the years and Spaghetti western cultist Tarantino gave Nero a cameo in the Unchained Jamie Foxx vehicle with Christoph Waltz in 2012, while Italian director Francesca Comencini put him in her Sky series Django last year.
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