Trivia / Fantozzi

• Acting for Two: Plinio Fernando initially plays only Mariangela, but in later movies he also plays her daughter Uga.
• Creator Backlash: Pina's first actress Liù Bosisio despises this saga and made it very clear that she doesn't want to talk about it. While she likes her own character Pina and finds her relatable, she hates it when people still call her Pina.
• Hostility on the Set:
  • Since Liù Bosisio, Pina's original actress, didn't get along with Paolo Villaggio, she was replaced by another actress from the third movie onwards. In all her interviews, she has almost nothing nice to say about working on these movies and admits that the experience is nothing but a bad memory.
  • Anna Mazzamauro, who played Miss Silvani, also didn't like working with Paolo Villaggio. She outright said that she respects him as an actor but doesn't like him as a person, often describing him as smart but snobby and cruel. Although, unlike Liù Bosisio, she has no problem talking about the Fantozzi saga, and she had some nice words for Villaggio on her Facebook page after he died in 2017.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Pina, famously so. Played by Liù Bosisio in the first two movies, replaced by Milena Vukotic in the third and fourth movies, then Liù Bosisio is back playing Pina in the fifth movie (Bosisio herself said that she only returned to buy her son a house), and then once again Milena Vukotic takes over the role from the sixth movie onwards.
  • Calboni, since his original actor Giuseppe Anatrelli passed away after the airing of the third movie. He was briefly replaced by Riccardo Garrone for the fourth movie but he wasn't memorable like the original actor and in the other sequels the character is completely eliminated.
  • Mariangela and Uga were always played by Plinio Fernando until the last two movies. In the ninth movie, Fantozzi - Il ritorno, they are both played by Maria Cristina Maccà. In the final movie, Fantozzi 2000, Uga is played by Dodi Conti while Mariangela doesn't even appear.
  • On that note, in the first two movies Mariangela was dubbed over by Francesca Guadagno. In the third movie she was instead voiced by Fabrizio Mazzotta, and in the subsequent movies she wasn't dubbed over anymore.
• Real-Life Relative: In Fantozzi alla riscossa, the British football hooligan who tries to teach Fantozzi to be more brutal and violent is played by Paolo Villaggio's son Pierfrancesco. That one is also his only major acting role.