The drag queen and the nightmare of the video with Fedez: “After social outburst threats of denunciation ”

“ Mine was just an outburst that I wanted to get to Fedez and now I risk being sued for posting on my social networks some photos they shot of me taken during the shooting on the set ”. Speaking is Paola Penelope, the drag queen of the video ‘Mille’ with Fedez, Orietta Berti and Achille Lauro, who tells Adnkronos that ” the nightmare of the video is not over yet ” since the producer under his post ” claims that my assistant took the photos on the set even though I signed a release prohibiting it but that’s not true. The other extras passed them to me and I posted them after the video came out. I never opened my phone, ” Penelope stresses. Below the post of the drag queen, the producer of the clip, Antonio Giampaolo, comments: “I respect your job as a Drag, but I ask you to respect the role of extras. And you were there as an extra, just like everyone else. with pleasure from your social networks that you wasted no time posting selfies with the artists and photos on the set. The other extras respected the signed release where it is written the prohibition to take photos and videos, so before making controversy remember the role that you have held, and stick to what you sign. Thank you again as I did on set personally for taking part in the project, but stardom is achieved with professionalism, not trying to use names and screaming shame. ” I will defend myself – Penelope says again – my phone is available. If I took pictures they have to prove it. My outburst on social media was not for advertising, I don’t give a damn! I was only interested in saying that if u A public figure who exposes himself must then pay attention to those who surround himself in everyday life because this can frustrate all the work he does in public ”. ” You brought up Fedez to have a sounding board – the producer of ‘Mille’ still writes – I will repeat to you that in the release you signed you have violated a fundamental point. I also repeat that you have had privileged treatment with a dressing room, with air conditioning, reserved for you and your friend and your personal assistant / photographer. It brings respect to the other extras who were super helpful and no one complained even though they didn’t have a dressing room like you ”. In the post published by Penelope, the assistant director Daniele Barbiero also intervenes, defending himself by claiming that he has never used the word trans: “When I asked, as at the end of the scene, to let you put in the shade, it was so as not to make you die of hot and, like the other times, I used the word drag that probably given the great distance, the use of masks, radios and the megaphone may have reached it in another way – he says – I am sensitive to the struggles for equal rights of all category but I believe that this controversy is not centered, because the use of each figure was made for an artistic idea and not to put this or that figure at the center. Neither are opposing favoritisms. ” The assistant director says that what I said was not true and that he had come into the dressing room only because we had heard badly – explains Penelope – When he came I also said to him: ‘do not offend our intelligence, we heard you in four’. i ac I decided to participate in the video only by virtue of Fedez and when I was contacted by this external company – precise – I had no idea that it would end like this. Fedez on May 1st did a beautiful thing – adds the drag queen – I even thanked him during the shooting but when I found myself shooting the video I had the perception that we were out of place. In fact we were the only ones with feathers and the others were wearing 60s clothes so I asked myself: ‘Why did they call us?’ ”. ” Perhaps during the shoot the director realized that we could not be used and put us aside. But that’s okay, I also said that I was sitting quietly at home. In fact, in the evening at the production I just said: ‘Why don’t you put on super make-up girls, it’s the same thing, I’m staying at home’. When I was called, the company only gave me the release that allowed him to use my image but not the contract that we had already established verbally, including the fee that I had to receive. At first I asked to be removed from the project but to avoid creating problems I enlisted the help of a lawyer and agreed to sign the release after payment. I repeat that I was not looking for advertising, I just wanted to send a message to Fedez. I hope this nightmare ends as soon as possible ”, concludes the drag queen of the Fedez video. (By Alisa Toaff)