The Great Beauty director on his TV series The New Pope, blowing up Michelangelo’s Pietà, and why he’s done with Italian Pm biopicsThe Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino had his first screenplay made when he was in his 20s, and has since written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar and a Bafta for 2013’s The Great Beauty.
In 2016, he created and directed his first TV series, The Young Pope, which starred Jude Law.
For the follow-up, The New Pope, John Malkovich joins the cast.Was it always your plan to make a sequel to The Young Pope?No, initially I intended to end the story with The Young Pope.
It was while editing the first season that I had the idea that opened up the game again.
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