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In 2006, Arturo Brachetti set a Guinness World Record as the world's

fastest quick change artist, transforming outfits

in just 1.5 seconds.

Coming up, we travel to Turin

to uncover his secrets and take an exclusive look inside his home.

When magic is behind every corner.

Right.

Let's get started understanding this man.

Arturo, why did you become a quick change artist?

And what did your parents think of this career plan?

So Arutro, was there a grand debut?

Now, I know we all want to see the house, but before we do

this isn't just spectacle.

According to Arturo this stuff really has the power to move.

Listen to this story.

Today Arturo has over over 350 characters in his repertoire

and is considered in many countries a living legend

in the world of theater and visual performing arts.

I know you're all wondering, like I am, whether Arturo is always in character.

His home may offer us some clues.

Come on then Arturo

what's this really all about for you?

Arturo in winter.

And now in spring time.

How did you end up?

Well, as you.

And what did and what did your parents

make of this career plan?

Who was your role model

when you got started?

And was there a debut moment?

No, I was there a debut moment

and how did it go down?

Now, I know we all want to see the house, but before we do.

This isn't just spectacle.

According to our tour, this stuff really has the power to move.

Listen to this story.

I know you're

wondering, like I am, whether Arturo is always in character.

His home may offer us some clues.

So come on. That also.

What's this really all about for you?

Sometimes the people ask me,

oh, this magic still important now, of course,

magic illusions.

Let's say lying.

Lying in a good way is part of our world.

Facebook is the greatest.

The greatest experiment of this illusion that we put them on stage.

Our life, which is not true.

And we use filters.

Filters, the world filter like in the Middle Ages.

The filter of love, the filter of beauty.

Now, the filter is Photoshop, but it's still a filter.

Something that we use to make our life,

Nicer, sparkling, pinker.

But but this is an illusion.

And we need this illusion to survive.

A phrase that I often say is that

is the reality that we imagine that make us happier?

just to say that sometimes

we create our life to promote ourselves,

to be better in family, in work, So it's not only on stage.

Magic is everywhere.

Oh, okay okay

okay okay okay okay.

If. Yeah.

So what sign are you, Virgo?

Okay.

But you know.

You deal with passive.

Yeah.

I okay?

Any man.

Any money.

Money.

Any money.

Money.

Money.

Money.

So you like it.

Bye. Bye bye.

Sarah, imagine a finale that I think we for in a beautiful mall

today. The.

People okay, but for.

Okay.

But, that that, that, the, the, the,

you know,

they.

Okay. My.

Movement.

But I'm not

one of these commodities.

So now what I want to do.

I mean, the first to come in.

Pandemic breakthrough.

Right.

But it's different. 25.

Yeah. My.

Okay.

and. there out go Let's Saying that.

Here we are in my home,

which is more or less,

the mirror of a what I am

is a plague round for a pizza pan.

So, this is, Diana, this is Moira.

They are cousins, and I have a secret passages,

so I have the walls are that are moving.

I have surprises every corner.

I live well here.

For me, everything is normal.

But when my friends on other people, they come to visit me,

they are very surprised because.

Because this zone was, spooky through a spooky house.

Spooky, but in a spooky, surrealistic and funny house.

I think one I will be very old.

I will take people like a museum

and, you know, visit the house of Arturo,

€20 cash.

In my house, nothing is what,

in my house.

Nothing. It's, it is

in my house.

You know, in my home.

Nothing. It is like it seems.

So you see a banana?

Well, is it's fake.

You see a ketchup bottle and it's a telephone,

you see, an egg.

And it's not a real egg.

You see cakes that you want to eat,

but in fact, they are made of foam.

So everything is, and I'm

not saying an illusion, but, ironical point of view.

And that

I'm not a real collectors, but, years after years,

I start to accumulate things.

So at the moment, like, I have many hats, most of them.

I use them in real life.

In the winter, I have bowler hats, about eight of them or a top hat.

So it is useful.

So I don't get and, and, combed

the in the summer I have other hats and,

and the, I have marionettes.

Then I have to stop with collections because,

my house is big, but, it's not infinite.

It's, I have to say, okay, that that's enough.

My houses.

What?

People would think is the house of,

actor, an artist.

So is the reflection of what is happening on stage.

The journey that, people

leave in the stage, they live it when when they visit my house,

with all those secret passages and and, doors that are opening

on the other side, the, with, object will tell you stories.

I think that every object.

Oh, that is a bit old, collects the vibration of the people

who own that object.

Object before you, for instance. Hats.

I like to think that the the the

the thoughts of a person before me, they are still in this hat.

So when I put this hat, I am enriched.

I am, you know, I have an extra point because I can

you know, read the thoughts of the person.

Where this at before me?

I like to think that maybe it's not true, of course is not true.

But it's so nice.

I'm living in Torino.

In the poor part

of the royal palace.

Which means that I.

I finally found this place,

part of the, building that is the Royal palace.

It was the service, the building that was used for the council and,

the workers of the royal palace that every day would just go

in across the courtyard and reach the royal palace to work.

And, you know, my grandfather was a worker at Fiat.

He would wake up at 4:00 in the morning,

go to the factory, come back at five, completely

dirty with grease and black and

and so I come from a very low class.

My father was an employee, so he didn't get his hands dirty.

Was already working in the office.

But I would never he dream in my life that one day I would leave.

You know, a few yards from the the king of what was the place of the king

that got the when belongs to my, it would be

this thing.

My grandfather

would never imagine that his nephew.

That's my grandfather, factory

worker, would never have imagined that

the nephew would live in such a palace

next to the royal family.

So do you feel that way today?

In a way, yeah, exactly.

Turin.

Until the Olympics of 2006 was considered an industrial town.

Boring, dark gray, dirty with pollution.

And then finally, when we're stylish, the

the town, we clean it for, the Olympics.

Everybody in town as well discover

the beauty, of the architecture,

the grand, grand grandeur of of of the palaces we have.

We have, we have 150 custom castles

only in this region, because, of course, the

the royal castle is cross my, my, my window.

But there is another castle to take.

T under the castle to go hunting.

Another castle to go with the with lover.

Because I have a king, and I a real.

And I love her so we have we have full of castle here and beautiful cafe

and beautiful aristocratic life that is now reachable by everybody.

So it's a very magical town.

Okay.

But this wish that.

Foreigners.

Well, is,

Torino is what is considered a magical town.

The triangle of the devil.

So they say.

No lion for the spiritism, Prague for the Golem legend

and Torino for the Satanism.

We had this common triangle.

Triangle of the black magic.

But then Turin is part of the other triangle of the white magic,

which is Jerusalem, Rome and Torino or Jerusalem.

London and Torino.

Depends on which book are you reading?

So we are in the between and, and we have

the first, mesmeric, studies,

in the end of last century in this, in this town, the first magic

circle was,

starting in this town.

Oh, we have oh,

we had temples dedicated to God.

This, part of the of the royal family

supported this, cults and religions through the centuries.

So now we are reached.

Now we are rich of of, of,

when so,

to start again,

for many century, the Savoy family was very open

to other form of religions or, cults.

So the old town is full of churches, but there's as different

temples of the for is and they led to

and scientific in Spiritist session,

very open, very clear. So,

our time, our town as,

Victorian magic that goes around.

The middle the temple became the

city.

The influence as well say it's.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't think that,

well, respect the spirit that.

No, no, no pain. So,

I don't think that

the magic of Torino was really,

part of my life, but certainly,

Torino had this huge transformation

from an industrial town to a cultural town.

And the the fact that I,

was, dreaming to

go away from this town 40 years ago.

It helped me to create dreams

and to go around the world and come back

now is such a fantastic,

oh. You say that

Retrouvé going back in, like.

Like finding your family again

at all in English.

Is it

Retrouvé coming back?

And return.

Really? Encounter?

Yeah. And. No. Cuando. No.

It trova la la la la sua.

The e

la cosa performed well, appropriately the church back then, but

so do you have any family support in town?

And do you have a favorite spot in town?

Okay.

This town is full of favorite spots for me.

Because I like to walk around the people recognize

me, they say hello, places

where I go to eat sweets because I have a sweet tooth.

And, my biggest sin is really the fact that I like biscuits and croissant.

So, I go to special places just to enjoy myself like this.

I like to go in theaters.

We had beautiful theaters.

I like to use a lot of artisans in this town.

Thank God we still have a multitude of,

old ladies, old men who are fantastic with their hands.

That helped me to create wigs and costumes and props for my shows.

This is

a treasure that Italy still have, is disappearing, but I find it sometimes

incredible tradition and, objects or tools

to, come cool to.

And also.

I blessed

with a little glass of something in the spirit.

You see, an Ikea

so that I can.

Here in Italy

we are able to have this incredible artistry, for theater that is,

traditional and is like a treasure for us

that we work in this field.

Finale.

The finale. Main thing.

Oh. Stories

from not saying.

There.

Marge Simpson.

Marge Simpson goes to Yellowstone.

Oh. Because.

I don't know what.

Don't,

people ask me what I take my inspirations.

But it comes from everywhere.

We are lucky here in Europe to be surrounded by culture.

Even here in our old cafe in Torino is culture.

Just to have this nice cup of coffee and this scene, this is my actual scene.

Sometimes, once a week I pay myself a little scene.

And then it's fun just

to see the people around to get inspiration, you know?

Some crazy characters, old ladies, writers

or just young people passing by with incredible hairstyle.

That's life.

First of all, there is a general idea of the show.

If it's a one man show, it's a play or whatever, or is a a place.

Sometimes I, I was asked to do, characters

in operas, real operas with real opera singers.

So it depends what is the frame where the act is going to happen, then?

I, look for the characters.

Sometimes I write on a white piece of paper, which is terrible

because the white piece of paper is the nightmare for every creator,

and they start to write maybe the name of the characters.

Sometimes I have to choose characters.

Warrington initially, well, well-known.

France. England.

Italy, mainly in Spain as well, which is not that easy.

And then I start to

decide how it goes one to the other

sometimes most of the time is to be ironical.

So I think that, for instance, when the,

Judy Garland, develops herself and becomes

Liza minnelli, it's not only the the change,

but is the fact that Liza minnelli is the daughter of of the Judy Garland.

So the brain of the public goes, oh, yes, I get it. And,

and so

it's most of the time there's a little gag between one character and the other.

So when I decide the characters, I start to draw, little,

sketches of the figures of the costumes.

With these sketches, I go to a proper costume designer,

somebody who works in the opera, in the musicals.

And probably she's making a much better,

drawing with that drawings.

We go to the, factory, the tailors,

and there the nightmare starts.

Because the poor people, they have to cut the costumes in different ways.

Not they are not used to.

We have a lot of,

rehearsals.

I'm going to try the costumes,

ten, 15 times for each costume.

It's sometimes very boring and tiring, starting from nine in the morning

and finishing at six in the evening like this, you know, again and again and.

But then at

the end, I have these fantastic tools

who are like, let's say,

who are like, experiments of,

tailoring architecture.

They are tricky costume, very complicated sometimes and very expensive.

But that's

I think that each one of us has superpowers.

You have the superpower of changing myself quickly.

Okay, but somebody says the superpower of listening.

The superpower of talking, the superpower of being happy every day.

So we have.

It's just a way of recognize its own superpower.

And then, that's it.

We are all magicians because, we're all different.

One from the art, from another one.

If if I would be able

to talk with myself young, I would say to him,

don't lose all that time.

But then I have no regrets.

A hundred years ago, Mr.

Fragility was considered the greatest quick change artist in history.

And after 100, he,

they, they I.

Yeah.

So, he's legend, lived many years after that.

I hope that my, souvenir would stay

at least in the in the hearts of the people who saw me, or in the hearts

and in the mind of the people who wants to become,

the artist will transform himself.

So I hope that my little Eiffel Tower

will blink even after my dad.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
transform /trænsˈfɔːrm/ B1	verb - to change completely in appearance or character
repertoire /ˈreɪpɚtwɑːr/ C1	noun - a list of plays, operas, or pieces that a company or performer is prepared to present
legend /ˈledʒənd/ B1	noun - a very famous or important person
illusion /ɪˈluːʒən/ B2	noun - a false idea or belief
surrealistic /ˌsʌriəˈlɪstɪk/ C1	adjective - characterized by fantastic or incongruous imagery
accumulate /əˈkjuːmjəleɪt/ B2	verb - to gather or acquire more and more of something
vibration /vaɪˈbreɪʃən/ B2	noun - a continuous slight shaking movement
artisan /ˈɑːrtɪzən/ B2	noun - a skilled manual worker who makes items that may be functional or strictly decorative
inspiration /ˌɪnspəˈreɪʃən/ B1	noun - the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something
ironical /aɪˈrɒnɪkəl/ C1	adjective - using words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
architecture /ˈɑːrkɪtektʃər/ B2	noun - the art and science of designing and erecting buildings
superpower /ˈsuːpərpaʊər/ B1	noun - a power that is exceptional or beyond the normal