Comedian Bruno Arena of Fichi d’India – Theater died

Entertainment world in mourning. He died at 65 Bruno Arenathe comedian of the duo Fichi d’India (ANSA CINEMA CARD). The news was given by his son Gianluca on Instagram: “I wasn’t ready, but I never would have been. Have a good trip dad … leave an immense void”. To remember the actor also Paolo Belli who published a photo of them together: “RIP great friend of mine”.
Arena, in 2013 had been hit by an aneurysm that had compromised his motor skills. He had approached the world of entertainment in the eighties. The turning point after the meeting with Max Cavallari, with whom he founded the Fichi d’India, a constant presence in Zelig.
The entertainment world had not forgotten him, despite the fact that he had been missing from the scene for almost 10 years. And many have gathered today around family members, and especially the brother of the soul, as Max Cavallari liked to call himself, by Bruno Arena, the other half of ‘I fichi d’India’, who died at 65.
“Did you take the suitcase and the wigs? … Now you will make the grown-ups laugh up there … It’s just a goodbye I will love you forever”, wrote in a moving post the friend of all time who has already been aware of the precarious conditions for several days of health of the unfortunate companion, he made appeals ‘Do not turn off the moon ..’. Arena had been unfortunate a lot, forced from 2013 to interrupt a very fast career due to an aneurysm that had paralyzed him in a wheelchair, enduring debilitating treatments. But years before a disastrous car accident, in 1984, had left indelible marks on his face. An ‘ugliness’ about which he himself joked, in a self-deprecating way, detesting all forms of pity.
Born in Milan on January 12, 1957, graduated from Isef, physical education teacher, in the schools of Varese, he had a comic verve that led him to perform in some cabarets. The turning point in his life, and for both, when he met Max Cavallari a few years younger in 1988. Thus the prickly pears were born, a name in homage to the place where they met, the Mediterranean scrub near Palinuro. After a debut in the Varese cabaret club, the ‘Fuori cena’, the take-off in the rest of Italy up to the radio and TV: on Italia 1, within the program ‘Yogurt’, for Radio Deejay, with ‘Tutti for one ‘, and Canale 5, with’ Do you know the latest? ‘ the famous joke contest, and above all ‘Zelig’, the cabaret show broadcast on Mediaset TV.
In the meantime, the world of cinema had also discovered them. Among their most famous roles are those of the cat and the fox from Benigni’s ‘Pinocchio’. Until 2013 when a cerebral hemorrhage stops Arena’s career, during the recording of an episode of Zelig, but does not affect the friendship with Cavallari who continues to be close to him. In recent years Bruno had spent long periods at Villa Beretta in Costa Masnaga, near Lecco, one of the Italian centers of excellence for rehabilitation. Many remember him in the wheelchair pushed by family members through the corridors, in the gym, in the common room, the inevitable smile, often a black and blue scarf around his neck. He was in fact a great Inter fan.
The announcement of his death was given by his son Gianluca on Instagram: “I wasn’t ready, but I never would have been.
Have a good trip dad … you leave an immense void “. Among the first to remember the actor, besides Cavallari, also Paolo Belli who published a photo of them together:” RIP great friend of mine “. The condolences from the political world have also arrived. “A prayer for Bruno Arena, has entertained entire generations. A hug to his loved ones. Bring a smile up there too “: Lega leader Matteo Salvini wrote on social media. While the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana, recalled how Arena has” always had Lombardy as a point of reference in his life. We will never forget his irony, his sympathy and his mythical ‘Amici Ahrarara! “.