Hollywood’s Next Leading Man
Every So Often A Star Comes Along That Has It All. Enzo Zelocchi Is An Actor, Writer, Director, And Producer, Who Is Bringing The Heat To Hollywood. Zelocchi Has Five Projects In The Works Where He Wears Multiple Hats, And Is Sure To Flood Film Lovers With His Many Creations.
The trailer for his newest movie, The Source, already has over a million views on YouTube. The two-minute teaser has over 15,000 likes and with Academy Award-winning actor Joe Cortese starring in the movie, it’s set to make a huge splash.
Zelocchi is best known for his 2010 production of My Little Princess which earned him won over 33 awards on the festival circuit. Hollywood’s hunger for a Latino action star is setting Zelocchi up for a big payday.
His mastery of social media is Zelocchi’s real superpower.
With his 4.1 million Instagram followers, Zelocchi can make his own movies go viral by just posting about them. His 1.2 million Facebook followers and over 465,000 Twitter followers don’t hurt either.
Zelocchi put his followers into action when his trailer for The First Secret got 24 million views on YouTube in March 2020. A unique combination of moviemaking mastery and social media sensation, Enzo Zelocchi is the one to watch in 2021… and beyond.
You’ve come from an accounting and marketing background. I’d like to know how you leapt from those professions, and went into to the acting field?
Swagger asked Enzo about his upcoming features and his journey into acting.
Enzo: Let me say this. They are not unrelated. Because the entertainment business is a business. Once you truly understand the dynamics of how the business works –the struggle behind it is building a businesses from scratch. I think I was very blessed because the businesses skills I acquired deeply helped me with my producing and acting career. When you are an actor, you are becoming a product you need to sell. So, the target audience, demographics; it’s a lot of media market strategy. It’s the same thing like trying to sell a new beverage nationwide. The basics are the same.
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST ACTING JOB?
It was like a dream for every actor. I didn’t have to audition. What happened is that my agent in Italy recommended me. They called the assistant director, and they scheduled a meeting with him the following day. He liked me. We spoke a little bit. The director wanted to see me. He looked me in the face and said, ‘I like him. The role is yours. ’ This is what I love about auditioning. You speak to the director; he gets a vibe from you if you can play the character, using his imagination. That’s the dream of every actor. You get the chance to feel the person and he understands what you can do and what you cannot.
Enzo: One of the biggest Italian directors, Carlo Vanzina, decided to cast me for the role of a villain for a TV series in Italy on channel 5.
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