Oliver Masucci: He too experienced discrimination in his childhood

Oliver Masucci
He too experienced discrimination in his childhood

Actor Oliver Masucci speaks about discrimination in the new “Playboy”.

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Oliver Masucci grew up in Germany as the son of an Italian. He had to listen to discriminatory terms from an early age.

Oliver Masucci (52) reports on his experiences with discrimination. As the son of an Italian, the German actor came into contact with it at an early age. “I heard something like this every day as a child. And not once or twice a day, but throughout the day: Itaker, spaghetti, spaghetti eater, pizza eater …”, says Oliver Masucci in the current “Playboy” October Edition, which will be available in stores from September 9th.

This is what he says about the debate about politically correct language

Some of the expressions hit him particularly hard. “I found Itaker really bad and ‘dirty Italian’. Even if you don’t pronounce the name correctly and say ‘Masucki’ instead of ‘Masutschi’,” explains the 52-year-old. He is correspondingly positive about the ongoing debate about politically correct language: “This everyday racism not only existed among children, but also among adults against children. In this respect, I think it’s really good that at the moment you don’t even know what to say That you think about it and that it is ostracized by a generation that simply doesn’t feel like it anymore. “

Masucci is known from numerous productions in the theater, for TV and the screen. He was seen in “Werk ohne Autor” and the German Netflix hit “Dark”, among others. His new film “Schachnovelle”, which is based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), will be released on September 23rd.

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