From Bocconi to the Red Carpet. But Keeping Her Feet on the Ground

ELISA PIAZZA, AT HER FIRST YEAR OF CLEACC, IS ONE OF THE PROTAGONISTS OF THE FILM GAME THERAPY. BUT UNIVERSITY AND HER DREAM TO BECOME A TV JOURNALIST COME BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE

“I never imagined myself acting in a film, it was a totally unexpected opportunity and I just decided to seize it”. These are the words of Elisa Piazza, student of Cleacc (Economics and Management for Arts, Culture and Communication), model and among the protagonists in “Game Therapy”, the film proving the success of the Youtubers generation. Along with Elisa, the film features Favij (Lorenzo Ostuni), Federico Clapis, Leonardo Decarli and Zora (Daniele Sodano), four young men famous thanks to their Youtube channels. The movie is about two boys trying to escape their unsatisfying lives into a virtual world. “My character’s name is Danika, one of the boys’ girlfriend, an impulsive and troubled girl, very different from me, as I am a very rational and quiet person”, tells Elisa “Playing the part of such a different person was an interesting experience: I found myself expressing some unknown traits of my character”.

The true dream of the twenty-year-old girl from Pesaro is not to become an actress, but to work as a TV journalist, and she is very determined. But having a clear goal in life doesn’t necessarily mean giving up other diverse experiences that can turn into growth and enrichment opportunities: “It’s important not to give up the chances that life offers to us, even opportunities we have never taken into account. We don’t have to set limits to our ambitions and should open our minds to new possibilities”, she says. Elisa took in fact part in the Miss Italia contest with no expectations, but on that occasion she won a contract with Radio KissKiss, a job where dialectic and live improvisation are fundamental skills; skills that can turn out to be helpful in a future career as a television journalist. And so Elisa lives divided between work and university: “One night I was on the red carpet in Rome, the afternoon before I was giving my economics exam”, she recounts, “but I could never give up my studies to be an actress or a model as disappointment and failure are around the corner in these kind of worlds. University remains my certainty, my source of fulfillment”.  

by Benedetta Ciotto