Today we’d like to introduce you to Lorenzo Pozzan.

Hi Lorenzo, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
As someone who thinks a lot, (read overthinks), I can’t say exactly what early memory, moment or event is salient enough to serve as ‘start’ to my story, but I think the vivid memory of Tom Hanks running his first sprint in Forrest Gump serves that purpose well. It made me become deeply fascinated with the power of cinema, story and art in general as an unadulterated, pure language to convey and share something about our personal understanding of the human condition. Growing up in a multilingual, multicultural household, my mother’s side of the family being from a small village on an island in the Mediterranean: Corsica, my fathers’ side from Venice, Italy, finding ways to reconcile and express all the diversity I was immersed in and absorbed, became fundamental to my own expression.
I tried to balance out my always-churning mind with physical activity, sports, fitness and play, all elements that have carried me to where I am today. After growing up in Italy, I moved to America to chase my dreams, and concretized them traveling the world via New York City.
Today, I am an actor and storyteller, often professionally pretending to enact circumstances I once thought I’d only witness in my mind.
In my last couple of projects I have played a lost ex-pat in 1950’s Mexico City in Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”, a cowboy and rancher with big dreams, and an in-over-his-head soldier in 2005 Baghdad (“Il Nibbio”).
I got to be on camera riding horses, firing automatic weapons, driving everything from a pick-up truck to a military vehicles and drinking in the worst bars of central America.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I wouldn’t necessarily define the road smooth, but I have learned over time to enjoy the twists, road-bumps and pit-stops as much as I enjoy the more rectilinear portions of the ride, plus, they keep things interesting, don’t they? Jokes aside, adjusting to a new country, the beautiful United States, and throwing all the conventional notions of what life is supposed to be in a tradition-based culture like the one I was raised in (Italian) were certainly mindset adjustments that caused me more than a few sleepless nights, as was the fact of amalgamating all the cultures and experiences I was fortunate enough to witness and absorb.
Also, creating a new community and social circles, and then accepting the mobile and sometimes long-distanced nature of some of my closest relationships was a challenge I continue to grapple with along the way.
All the while, learning to accept situations as temporary and ever-evolving, and embracing the idea that a shift in perspective can really improve my experience of life became go-to mechanisms to solve or ‘smoothen’ the road.
Some days are still rockier than others, but overall the more I go, the more abundance I feel, and for that, I am grateful.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am a storyteller that utilizes the screen, stage and sometimes my pen, or keyboard to recount my interpretations of fragments of the human condition. As an actor I like to tackle characters that tread the line between good and bad, embracing the duality and juxtapositions of going after what you believe in passionately while sometimes being wrong, misguided, on some level of the spectrum of morality.
I specialize in accent work and utilize my multicultural upbringing to bear witness to how sometimes, different cultures with their own, slightly different moralities may create the grounds for differently interpretable behaviors.
I utilize my own experience, characteristics and flaws, as well as what I have picked up living in four different continents and traveling to tens of different countries, listening to hundreds of stories, without ever forgetting that empathy is a more interesting interpretative key than judgement.
You might have seen me on TV in “From Scratch” or “Catch-22”, and as I mentioned earlier, I will be in movie theaters later this year/early next year with “Il Nibbio” and “Queer”, amongst others.

What was your favorite childhood memory?
Fishing and thinking the three inch fish I caught would provide for my whole family… More than a favorite memory, let me share a story that just popped up in my mind.
As a passionate fisherman, more specifically a spear-fisher, I think one of my most favorite memories is a series of flashes from a late-winter/early-spring day when my father and I ventured down a seaside path in my native Corsica to get to a tiny secluded beach in order to catch some sea urchin.
I couldn’t have been more than 5 years old, and this has to have been one of the first times in my life I understood that we were going to in some way provide for people we loved, my mother and sister, and I was going to help with that (urchin are a Mediterranean culinary delicacy).
I remember being in a hurry and falling off a rock while trying to reach the water quicker, probably because of how fully inhabited by a level of profound, irrepressible excitement and anticipation I was.
Then, I remember needing to take a few minutes to let the pain-shock reaction subside, because my body was not responding, and then subsequently being able to continue, help with the task at hand, tell the story and discuss the lessons I had learned.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.imdb.me/lorenzopozzan
• Instagram: @lorenzopozzan
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lorenzopozzan/

Image Credits
The incredible Gianmarco Chieregato and ‘maestro’ Rick Day and Raouf Marzouki for which I am incredibly grateful!