Call my agent - Italia, a remake of the cult French series Dix pour cent, recounts the activities of the fictional talent agency CMA (Claudio Maiorana Agency) as the agents manage the careers of the biggest stars in entertainment.
Fashion shoot with Paola Cortellesi in the garden of Villa Medici
In a tribute to the golden age of Italy’s cinema, the series is set in a dreamy Rome reminiscent of La Dolce Vita. The agency is located in a storied building in via Gabriele D’Annunzio with a large terrace overlooking piazza del Popolo. The interiors also pay homage to cinema, with posters recalling iconic names and blockbuster successes, including: Io la conoscevo bene (I Knew Her Well), La ragazza con la pistola (The Girl with a Pistol), Il traditore (The Traitor), Call me by your name (with “name” replaced by “agent”), La Dolce Vita. Even Marcello, the dog belonging to Elvira (Marzia Ubaldi), celebrates one of the most famous cinema scenes of all time every time he is called - "Marcello come here!". The poster for Perfetti sconosciuti in Chinese (Vittorio’s biggest fiasco) hangs over the coffee machine “to remind us every morning that you need to know how to identify successes before they happen … everyone is good at doing that after the event”.
In episode 1 - “Paola”, agent Gabriele (Maurizio Lastrico) drives his vespa through the centre of Rome to Villa Medici, on the Pincio hill near piazza di Spagna and the staircase of Trinità dei Monti. In the gardens there, a fashion shoot is taking place for Vanity Fair magazine, with actress Paola Cortellesi framed by the enchanting background of French Academy in Rome. Paola often jogs in the historical centre: Gabriele follows her down the alleys trying to make amends, as she passes through piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, where a fan asks her for a photo with a fountain in the background, and along the riverbank of lungotevere near Isola Tiberina.
The Marybeth set in Fiumicino with Matilda De Angelis
Vittorio (Michele Di Mauro) is the most ruthless of the CMA agents. One evening he takes an American producer to dinner on a terrace where we glimpse a spectacular view over the Imperial Forums, Trajan’s market and the Monument to Victor Emmanuel II as he tries to convince her that Paola Cortellesi is the right choice for the series about the Etruscans, Tuskia, starring Brad Pitt as the male lead. The episode ends in the Roman theatre in the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica where the Tuskia shoot is taking place.
In Episode 2 -“Paolo”: the CMA agents have new problems to manage, they are called to Palazzo Altemps to find out what is going to happen to the agency. Here, standing in front of the Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus, Paolo Sorrentino, the focus of the episode, chats to Claudio, his agent and the agency founder, about his retirement. Palazzo Altemps which houses the Museo Nazionale Romano is located across the road from piazza Navona, which naturally appears several times in the episode.
From classical Rome to modern architecture and the MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (the National Museum of 21st Century Arts) for the premiere of a film by Mario Martone, and the Auditorium Parco della Musica for the David di Donatello award ceremony in Episode 3 - “Pierfrancesco and Anna”.
In Episode 4 - “Matilda”: scenes for the fictional Marybeth, supposedly starring Matilda De Angelis, were shot at C’era una volta il West in Fiumicino.
While Episode 5 stars Stefano Accorsi as a passionate, workaholic actor who takes on too much at once, causing trouble for his agent, there’s the opposite problem in Episode 6 with agency client Corrado Guzzanti who doesn’t care in the least about making money: why be forced to go on set every day when he can enjoy the morning from his open-air office (a bench with a view of the lake in Villa Borghese)? The consequent story takes Lea to piazza di Pietra in the heart of Rome, whose name derives from the presence there of Hadrian’s Temple, built and dedicated to the emperor by his adoptive son and successor, Antoninus Pius.
Call my agent - Italia, a remake of the cult French series Dix pour cent, recounts the activities of the fictional talent agency CMA (Claudio Maiorana Agency) as the agents manage the careers of the biggest stars in entertainment.
Fashion shoot with Paola Cortellesi in the garden of Villa Medici
In a tribute to the golden age of Italy’s cinema, the series is set in a dreamy Rome reminiscent of La Dolce Vita. The agency is located in a storied building in via Gabriele D’Annunzio with a large terrace overlooking piazza del Popolo. The interiors also pay homage to cinema, with posters recalling iconic names and blockbuster successes, including: Io la conoscevo bene (I Knew Her Well), La ragazza con la pistola (The Girl with a Pistol), Il traditore (The Traitor), Call me by your name (with “name” replaced by “agent”), La Dolce Vita. Even Marcello, the dog belonging to Elvira (Marzia Ubaldi), celebrates one of the most famous cinema scenes of all time every time he is called - "Marcello come here!". The poster for Perfetti sconosciuti in Chinese (Vittorio’s biggest fiasco) hangs over the coffee machine “to remind us every morning that you need to know how to identify successes before they happen … everyone is good at doing that after the event”.
In episode 1 - “Paola”, agent Gabriele (Maurizio Lastrico) drives his vespa through the centre of Rome to Villa Medici, on the Pincio hill near piazza di Spagna and the staircase of Trinità dei Monti. In the gardens there, a fashion shoot is taking place for Vanity Fair magazine, with actress Paola Cortellesi framed by the enchanting background of French Academy in Rome. Paola often jogs in the historical centre: Gabriele follows her down the alleys trying to make amends, as she passes through piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, where a fan asks her for a photo with a fountain in the background, and along the riverbank of lungotevere near Isola Tiberina.
The Marybeth set in Fiumicino with Matilda De Angelis
Vittorio (Michele Di Mauro) is the most ruthless of the CMA agents. One evening he takes an American producer to dinner on a terrace where we glimpse a spectacular view over the Imperial Forums, Trajan’s market and the Monument to Victor Emmanuel II as he tries to convince her that Paola Cortellesi is the right choice for the series about the Etruscans, Tuskia, starring Brad Pitt as the male lead. The episode ends in the Roman theatre in the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica where the Tuskia shoot is taking place.
In Episode 2 -“Paolo”: the CMA agents have new problems to manage, they are called to Palazzo Altemps to find out what is going to happen to the agency. Here, standing in front of the Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus, Paolo Sorrentino, the focus of the episode, chats to Claudio, his agent and the agency founder, about his retirement. Palazzo Altemps which houses the Museo Nazionale Romano is located across the road from piazza Navona, which naturally appears several times in the episode.
From classical Rome to modern architecture and the MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (the National Museum of 21st Century Arts) for the premiere of a film by Mario Martone, and the Auditorium Parco della Musica for the David di Donatello award ceremony in Episode 3 - “Pierfrancesco and Anna”.
In Episode 4 - “Matilda”: scenes for the fictional Marybeth, supposedly starring Matilda De Angelis, were shot at C’era una volta il West in Fiumicino.
While Episode 5 stars Stefano Accorsi as a passionate, workaholic actor who takes on too much at once, causing trouble for his agent, there’s the opposite problem in Episode 6 with agency client Corrado Guzzanti who doesn’t care in the least about making money: why be forced to go on set every day when he can enjoy the morning from his open-air office (a bench with a view of the lake in Villa Borghese)? The consequent story takes Lea to piazza di Pietra in the heart of Rome, whose name derives from the presence there of Hadrian’s Temple, built and dedicated to the emperor by his adoptive son and successor, Antoninus Pius.
