Rising Stars: Meet Giulia Asquino

Today we’d like to introduce you to Giulia Asquino.

Hi Giulia, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
As a child, I didn’t talk much, and the way I was able to express myself and enter my world was through the body. So at the age of five, I started studying ballet and later also contemporary dance. It was the discipline that formed me, but during my journey I found another form of art that came close to my strings and that allowed me to speak without speaking, to sing. So I went to the conservatory, where I also studied singing. Growing up, however, I was always the actor of the situation, in every dinner with friends or on Sundays with the family, and at a certain point I realized that I had an interest in acting. At the age of 19, after a first professional experience in a ballet company in New York, I had the confirmation that be a dancer was not exactly what I wanted to do in life and that playing the roles of sylphs and princesses did not suit me. I wanted to be myself, all sides of myself.

And right there, in that city that never sleeps, I took my first acting class, and in addition to my unconditional love for it, I realized my place and my path. So in 2019, I started studying acting at Susan Batson Studio for a year until covid hit and I came back to Italy to my family. During covid, however, I did not stop, I learned a new language, how to start selling my art, and make myself known. In June 2020 I moved to London to continue studying between the Guildhall and the National Youth Theater and to get to know people in the industry. Until one day, I noticed that the Stella Adler in Los Angeles was auditioning, but only in the US and UK, and I said to myself “Why not, let’s try”. And so after three auditions, a month later, I left for my adventure in Los Angeles. There, it was love at first sight for the city, the ocean, and the air of cinema that was breathed in every corner of the streets. Since I found acting, not only have I found myself, and everything has always happened by itself, without effort, but in Los Angeles I have also found love.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
As I already said, since I started my journey in acting opportunities have come by themselves, but certainly the difficulties have not been lacking. The language was certainly the first difficulty, I understood English pretty good, but I didn’t speak it very well, and to think that now I can consider it as a second mother tongue is incredible to me! But surely the most difficult part of my journey was leaving home when I was very young, and although my determination and passion have always given me the strength to face anything, being a foreigner always has its positive and negative sides, especially when those differences make you feel wrong. But one of the things I’ve learned is that you should never be afraid or ashamed of being yourself. When I first arrived in America, I really wanted to fit in, to be taken as a local, so I worked a lot on the language and behaved more like an American girl than an Italian one. Instead, the beauty lies precisely in that, in the diversity and uniqueness that each of us carries within ourself, through our own culture and our own being. I met many friends on the journey who came from different parts of the world, and we all had the same first desire to be accepted.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
What do I do? I am an actor, and my goal is to move people, talk to them through the various stories that I will have the opportunity to tell, tell them to be themselves, to inspire them to be better, to follow their dreams, to take risks and take action to achieve what makes them happy. I had the luck, the curiosity, and the skills to have been able to learn different arts, and my goal is to be able to use them to best tell these stories. And by speaking more languages, I also want to make feel involved as many people as possible. I believe that what makes me different is my tenacity, the desire to make a difference, my curiosity towards history, culture, and the thousand facets of human behavior and finally, perhaps it may seem trivial, my heart.

We love surprises, fun facts and unexpected stories. Is there something you can share that might surprise us?
Probably one thing that hardly anyone knows is that when I was a child, I was a fantastic Zorro! I don’t know why but during the carnival period, I liked to dress up as Zorro with two of my friends, and then for some reason, we turned into the 3 Musketeers and fought against the villains.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/Giuliaasquino
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_giuliaasquino_/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWMc3vdlLoFbqVdTZhiqcYA

Image Credits
Emanuele Giacomini