(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 10 – Feeling one’s body rebelling, through the attack of a rare disease, histiocytosis X, which suddenly takes his breath away, so much so that in 2014, when he was twenty, be hospitalized in an emergency and then for two weeks in intensive care. It is one of the many moments of awareness that Benjamin Mascolo, born in 1993, who became a pop star as a component with Federico Rossi of the duo Benji & Fede, shares frankly in the documentary Amazon Original ‘Ben: Respira’ by Gianluigi Carella, produced by Lotus , debuting on Amazon Prime Video on November 12. A new chapter in a year full of debuts, for the young musician, who in February released, under the pseudonym B3n, ‘California’, his first solo album (after the announcement of the artistic separation of the duo, sanctioned with a double concert this summer at the Verona Arena); while at the end of October he made his debut at the Rome Film Fest and in theaters ‘Time is up’ by Elisa Amoruso, his first film as an actor, in which he starred with his girlfriend Bella Thorne. All paths that converge in the documentary, built on another challenge faced by Mascolo: not being able to run as the New York Marathon had set in 2020, because it was canceled due to the covid, he decided to prepare to run the same distance in the Big Apple (42.2 km) alone. The fact “that I find myself doing so many things together is a gift that life is giving me. I am grateful to have this opportunity in a historical moment in which having a job is by no means a foregone conclusion” the singer explains to ANSA. and the author of whom several portraits overlap in the non-fiction film. As a musician, pop idol and fledgling actor; sportsman with a very rigid discipline; companion of an eclectic and rebellious artist like Bella Thorne who fully supports him and reconciles often opposite rhythms of life.
Among the most intense stories is that of his illness: “After months of being locked up in the house and isolated due to covid, there is a sense of rebirth similar to what I felt then – he says -. The mental strength of wanting to restart and rebuild something is the same as I was looking for after the illness “. (HANDLE).
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