{"id":2908,"date":"2012-03-16T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2012-03-16T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:56:38","slug":"ruggero-deodato-on-toto-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/ruggero-deodato-on-toto-sexy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruggero Deodato on Toto Sexy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Toto<\/a>
Toto Sexy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(translated from Nocturno magazine and continued from here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

With Il figlio di Spartacus<\/strong> began the busiest and most intense period of my career as an assistant director.\u00a0 Sergio was a very funny guy, able to fool around even when he was in his director’s role on set.\u00a0 I remember an episode that happened on the set of Toto Sexy <\/strong>(which was accredited solely to Mario Amendola, but was partially shot by Corbucci).\u00a0 We shot all of the stripteases to insert into the film at Titanus Farnesina, and at our disposition we had all the most noted strippers in the world at the time: Coccinelle, Bambi, Dodo from Hamburg, Ya Doucheskaya.\u00a0 Sergio was engrossed in the shoot, so gave me his little Super 8 camera and said: “Rugge, Brigitte Bardot’s shooting a film in another studio with her husband Roger Vadim, I want you to film them when they’re in the street, upt to the point when they go into the cinema.”<\/p>\n

After some days he called me on the telephone, summoning me to his house on Viale Pinturicchio.\u00a0 He made me sit down in front of an improvised screen and watch, surprised, as the beautiful Bardot enters the studio to shoot a red light movie.\u00a0 Sergio, with the help of a capable editor, had made it look as if the diva was stripping, whereas in fact she’d been substituted for one of the aforementioned strippers.\u00a0 That was Corbucci, one of the greats!<\/p>\n

Notes<\/p>\n

I’m guessing the film Bardot was shooting was the Italo-French production Warrior’s Rest<\/strong>, but that means Toto Sexy <\/strong>was shot quite a while before it’s September 1963 release date (Warrior’s Rest <\/strong>was released a whole year earlier)<\/p>\n

The strippers named are interesting.\u00a0 Ya Doucheskaya had a small role in Elio Petri’s The Teacher from Vigevano <\/strong>at around the same time.\u00a0 Coccinelle was a fascinating character, a transexual born as Jacques Charles Dufresnoy who had a sex change in 1958, performed at a popular transvestite cabaret show called Chex Madame Arthur before becoming the main attraction at Le Carrousel de Paris.\u00a0 She also appeared in a couple of Spanish films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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