“The film culture in Italy is so great and every single actor came with their history and they really care about this as a profession. “I was introduced to all these amazing Italian actors once I got there,” Fox said.
Sylvia and Captain Riva (Giovanni Cirfiera) cross paths often in “Signora Volpe.” Moris Puccio/AcornTV Their grudging tolerance for each other morphs into a mutual respect - and maybe even more. While she’s busy solving crimes - in the second episode, Sylvia discovers a skeleton at an archaeological dig that’s linked to a local man suspected of the murder - she also encounters the local Carabinieri (police force) in the form of Captain Riva ( Giovanni Cirfiera), who dubs her “Signora Volpe” (“volpe” means Fox in Italian).
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Sylvia and Isabel have a fraught sibling relationship - you’ll learn more about that as the series progresses - and, before too long, Sylvia is using her cloak-and-dagger expertise to investigate Alice’s sketchy fiancee, Tomasso, who’s hiding a criminal past.Īt the end of Episode 1, Sylvia - energized by her second career and charmed with the Italian way of life - buys a dilapidated farmhouse near the medieval town of Panicale and settles into her new life as a transplanted crime solver. “I think that her going to Italy and exposing herself to the complications of family life … she can’t help but start to feel the emotions you do with family and maybe that opens up a whole new side of her.” “She’s used to operating alone and clearly she’s very good at her job - she’s brave, intelligent, insistent and physical,” Fox said. Emilia Fox and Tara Fitzgerald as Sylvia and Isabel in a scene from “Signora Volpe.” Moris Puccio/AcornTV “She feels wronged by her ex-husband … and she’s deciding whether to let all that go for the new life she discovers in Italy. “Sylvia feels so betrayed when MI6 cut off and she feels like she’s put them in danger and let them down,” Fox said.
Sylvia still sleeps with her ex-husband, Adam ( Jamie Bamber), but after feeling betrayed over a risky intelligence operation, she heads to Italy (Umbria) for the wedding of her niece, Alice ( Issy Knopfler), the daughter of her older sister Isabel ( Tara Fitzgerald) - who lives in Italy with her doctor-husband Matteo (Matteo Carlomagno). “She’s clearly had a great relationship with her agents in the field.”
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“I think she’s been defined by her job in the first part of her life and she’s given her all to her professional life,” Fox said. Her onscreen alter-ego, Sylvia Fox, is a disgruntled MI6 officer who’s now a high-level desk jockey but misses her thrill-packed espionage days, which took her around the world. “When does it ever happen that you get sent on a great job with an amazing story with such a great character to the most beautiful place?” Fox, 47, told The Post.įox took her real surname into the three-part series, premiering May 2 and shot on location. Veteran actress Emilia Fox stars in the new Acorn TV series “Signora Volpe” as a disillusioned British intelligence officer who finds herself solving crimes in the picturesque Italian countryside. Keeley Hawes balances grief and quirky humor in new dark comedy ‘The Chelsea Detective’ star Adrian Scarborough on quirky sleuth How Jane Seymour and ‘Harry Wild’ beat ‘Squid Game’ to the punch
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