Oct 4, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 20 segments
“I think first of all that in order to have disillusion, you need to have illusion and I really want to sort of take a stand in the name of being a delusional person, you know? I do think illusions…
Chiara BarziniGuest
Mia FunkHostVirginia MoschettiHost
I think it's something that I can relate to this sense of, you know, talking about the extent of the Roman Empire.
But going to Los Angeles, the sense of an end of empire, which is really also at the heart of Aqua, is something maybe Americans can't hold in their mind.
We are really at this stage where they are trying to understand it and we see it's the cause of so much panic.
You go back to what we love so much in your coming-of-age novel, where it's a personal story.
In terms of Earthquake, I think that was sort of the moment when I realized that I had fallen in love with Los Angeles and all of its... contradictions.
You know, one of the greatest cities that is absolutely at the mercy of its own nature, that's definitely Los Angeles.
So when I was living there as a teenager in those early 90s years, which inspired the memoir or the novel that's heavily memoiristic, I realized in hindsight what an impact that nature did have on my way of perceiving the city.
But when you're a teenager, you're sort of stuck in that moment of survival and you're not taking in all of the elements.
So high school was in and of itself such an adventure that I didn't really have time to absorb the rest of the story.
And that was something that I had a privilege of doing much later in life as a kind of reckoning.
And it was something that actually made me fall in love with the city all over again.
I think it's something that I can relate to this sense of, you know, talking about the extent of the Roman Empire.
But going to Los Angeles, the sense of an end of empire, which is really also at the heart of Aqua, is something maybe Americans can't hold in their mind.
We are really at this stage where they are trying to understand it and we see it's the cause of so much panic.
You go back to what we love so much in your coming-of-age novel, where it's a personal story.
In terms of Earthquake, I think that was sort of the moment when I realized that I had fallen in love with Los Angeles and all of its... contradictions.
You know, one of the greatest cities that is absolutely at the mercy of its own nature, that's definitely Los Angeles.
So when I was living there as a teenager in those early 90s years, which inspired the memoir or the novel that's heavily memoiristic, I realized in hindsight what an impact that nature did have on my way of perceiving the city.
But when you're a teenager, you're sort of stuck in that moment of survival and you're not taking in all of the elements.
So high school was in and of itself such an adventure that I didn't really have time to absorb the rest of the story.
And that was something that I had a privilege of doing much later in life as a kind of reckoning.
And it was something that actually made me fall in love with the city all over again.
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