“The Palace”, interview with actor Oliver Masucci

In “The Palace” by Roman Polanski, the actor Oliver Masucci plays the director of the luxury hotel where rich and obnoxious people gather for the New Year’s Eve of 2000. A  social farce, directed by Roman Polanski, with wit and a limitless grotesque approach, where all characters are portrayed at their worst, in a merry-go-round of futility and ridiculous arrogance.

A fun set

Oliver Masucci assures us that the set of “The Palace” was a blast; a kind of  forced holiday, in the hotel that is the location and the additional character of the film, where work and life mixed. Roman Polanski on the set was meticulous, and they rehearsed a lot, with him suggesting the perfect comic timings and managing all the minimum aspects of every character’s interaction.

Real life can be worse than fiction

Oliver Masucci spent a lot of time with the real director fo the grand hotel, to learn and stela style and movements and the attitude of a director of such a huge machine. the director told him that what the film tells is a little part of the crazy stuff that happened in his career, in the hotel. Some rich people can be much worse than what the film describes.

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