Daria Nicolodi(1949-2020)

Mother ofAsia Argento.Grandmother ofAnna Lou Castoldiand Nicola Giovanni Civetta (Asia's children).

I wroteSuspiria (1977)forDario Argento;title, subject and script. The inspiration came from a tale my grandmother, Yvonne, used to tell me when I was a child, after an experience she had in a northern acting academy where she discovered the teachers were teaching arts, but also black magic. I was fond of this story of hers more than Pinocchio byCarlo Collodi,and when I told it to Dario it was natural for him to fall in love with it too. It was his first step from thrillers to fantasy-alchemy movies and we did it together. [an interview withChristian Sellersof GoreZone Magazine UK]