Biografia

Nearly drowned in the sea as a child. To get over this trauma, he started to follow swimming lessons and became a champion at 16.

Made a nude artistic calendar in 2000 for the Italian magazine Max.

The first movie he ever watched was "Some like it hot".

Married his girlfriend three months after the birth of their first son Alessandro, and the child was baptized on the same day of the marriage, near Perugia, in Italy.

At age 16 he won the Italian swimming championship of the 100 meters backstroke competing for the team S.S. Lazio.

It's always important what you're doing, it's not important where.

"Our son (with his wife) was born in the water, in our home's bath tub. Every evening, if I'm in Rome, we take the bath together. The love for water unites us. Now he is older than one year old and like a foreigner to whom I'd like to make known my world." - talking about his first child Alessandro-Leon.

Sometimes people of success are the loneliests ones, they are in front of the TV with the remote control in their hand and the phone never rings...

I spent the first 14 years of my life swimming, which is very important to me. Wherever I'm filming I always try and find a swimming pool.

I'll tell you, the love scene is always very, very difficult to shoot because you have all the crew around you and looking at you and when you are kissing someone, they say, `Don't put your hand on my shoulder because you're touching my hair' and something like that. And I say okay, okay. When you push the cheek, they're like, `Don't push the cheek' and I say okay. And you have to be very romantic and you say, okay. How can you enjoy the love scene?