Valentina actually began to flourish in Season 2 of “The White Lotus” when Impacciatore started engaged on the character privately. “I made up her backstory alone and I did not even share it with Mike,” she admitted.
“I am an actress who actually must really feel issues. I do not act, I stay issues, and the one factor within the script was that Valentina was married a few years in the past. With the modifying, that data isn’t there anymore, so I created the story of an abusive relationship. I imagined her at residence, not having an actual life, not having mates, very lonely.”
There was one scene that remained within the sequence that claims loads about who Valentina is. “So, the scene with the kittens helped me loads as a result of I assumed, Valentina loves these kittens a lot as a result of she’s not comfy with human beings,” the actress recalled.
Her character’s suppressed sexuality creates pressure with girls, and her pressure with males is additional defined by the abusive relationship. Since Valentina reveals in episode 6 that she’s by no means been with a lady, we all know this abusive marriage should have been with a person. Nonetheless, Impacciatore believes her motivations are completely unconscious. “Valentina does not even know why she treats males badly,” she defined. “She simply feels uncomfortable … to me, that was surprisingly harmless.”
This mixture of innocence and isolation in Valentina motivates her rising crush on Isabella. “She feels seen for the primary time, and so she will get hooked up to the primary person who pays consideration to her,” Impacciatore stated. When Isabella rejects Valentina in episode 6 and divulges her engagement to Rocco, it drives Valentina proper into Lucia’s ready arms.
