We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Giulia Asquino a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Giulia, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

In the last period, there have been two very important projects for me, one was my first short film, “When I Met You” which was completed in March of this year and which I am currently submitting to various international film festivals. This project has been very important to me, not only because it’s my first as an actor, director, and writer of the project, but also because it tells the reality I’m living right now, a long-distance relationship. I needed to show and talk about the daily life of a relationship like ours, where despite there being days of great suffering and lack, the will and desire for a life together are stronger than any fear or words that other people can say. I am certainly a romantic person, but I believe that despite the fast-paced, individualistic, and materialistic world we live in, people still want to create bonds, whether they are friendship, love, or perhaps with a parent, to feel that feeling that overwhelms you from head to toe with total peace. Because in loving I have found peace, security, a safe place, a home, and I hope that everyone in this world can experience this feeling, that’s why I wanted to talk about it. Sometimes the distant people are those who are closest to you. As for the second project that is very important to me, it is the development of my first feature. I’m still in development, so I can’t talk about it in depth yet, but it will be the story of many, which I too have gone through and of which I am very proud today, and I hope it will be a film that will bring a lot of emotion, realization, and inclusion.

Giulia, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Hi everyone, my name is Giulia Asquino, and I’m an actor. I was born in Rome, Italy, and now I live in London. I got into the world of art at the age of 5 when I started studying ballet, then singing in the conservatory, and you know, I was sure that ballet dancing would be my career until I found acting. It was a coincidence because I was in New York for a job trial within a ballet company, and even though I repeated to myself that that was the goal, the arrival of a dancer, something didn’t add up, it didn’t feel like I was in the right place. One day I was lucky enough to see an acting studio, the Susan Batson Studio, and out of curiosity I took a lesson, and that lesson changed my life. I finally figured out what was missing and what was missing was me. So I started studying at Susan Batson for a little over a year until Covid hit. I came back to Italy to my family and continued to study acting online with various other schools and techniques, the Guildhall, Stella Adler, Susan Batson, and the National Youth Theater of London, and I became very curious about the marketing and business side of the artist. Because yes, we are still in Show Business. Since I didn’t know when I could come back to the US, I moved in May 2020 to London, where a few months later I was lucky enough to read by chance that the Stella Adler of Los Angeles was auditioning in London. I said ‘Why not’, so after 3 auditions, 3 months later I left again for the USA, this time, Los Angeles. I still couldn’t believe I had come this far, so once I graduated from Stella Adler I came back to London, where I am continuing my career and will soon be graduating in marketing and business at university too. I believe that my hallmark, which identifies me as an artist, is authenticity and purity. It’s something that has come up a lot from directors, casting, and other actors, about my performances. And so, I think this is what distinguishes me. In the art of acting, I have found myself, and I deeply believe that acting is not ‘being someone else’, but having the possibility to be yourself. Thanks to a character, I can draw on various nuances of my character that Giulia may not be in real life, but which is still part of her. We all have various shades, we all have a dark side and a light side, and I find there is beauty in that, in human emotion, and I want the audience to be able, for that hour, hour and a half of film, give themself the opportunity to feel, and not to feel wrong.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The most beautiful side of being an artist is to excite people, talk about important issues and open their eyes. The artist is the one who feels the world we live in and who tells about it. Perhaps the artist is the time machine of the feelings of the human being of that historical period. If you think about it, a film is like a time machine, in 10 years there will be completely different styles of dress, language, lifestyle, and films will remind us of who we were. This is the beauty of cinema.

Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

Surely I would have really wanted to know more about casting websites for looking for casting and opportunities. You know, I would have really wanted a mentor, someone who would show me the way, it is true that many mistakes are made along the way and perhaps we even need them in reality, but probably one thing I would have liked and would like even now is actually a mentor. I think perhaps the downside of those with a more artistic mind is that concentrating so much on the more systematic, practical things in life can be overwhelming, especially if you’re an overthinker like me. Sometimes you need someone to show you the way.      

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/Giuliaasquino
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_giuliaasquino_/
• Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliaasquino
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/GiuliaAsquino?t=zwYTeXsr1m2_UA4FLsqlhw&s=09
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWMc3vdlLoFbqVdTZhiqcYA

Image Credits
Romina Osmani, Chiara Spampinato, Roger Alarcon.