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so should I sit between my

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Keepers oh but this is not the right

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look for an interview you're right just

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give me two seconds

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one two two that's

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enough better like this I am aruro

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bretti the most famous Quick Change

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artist in the

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world magician performer actor director

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I think I am a 15y old Peter Pan in

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prisoned in a body of a 67y old man in

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2006 Arturo bti set a Guinness World

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Record as the world's fastest quick

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change artist transforming outfits in

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just 1.5

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seconds coming up we traveled to tyin to

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uncover his secrets and take an

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exclusive look inside his home where

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magic is behind every corner welcome to

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my magical

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house right let's get started

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understanding the this man Arturo why

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did you become a quick change artist

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when I was 14 I was such a shy boy

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little skinny and my parents put me in a

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seminary where I met a priest who was a

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magician he had a room full of magic

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tricks and I spent all my youth in this

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room learning reading about magic and

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illusionism but I was shy so I had to

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put on makeups and costumes to go in

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front of the audience so I would put a

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Chinese costume to do a Chinese trick an

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Indian costume to do the Indian rope and

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so on and I liked it and in that moment

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I received a book froli ra froli the

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book about this incredible man who 100

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years ago was the master of quick

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changes and I dreamt and to become like

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him and what did your parents think of

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this career plan my father dreamt and

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hoped that I would become a priest but I

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became a magician that is not so so so

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different you know when I was 17 I said

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to the priest who was my magic teacher

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you know I think I don't have the

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vocation the religious vocation and he

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said well it's not important the

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important thing in life is that if you

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want to bring smile to the public follow

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this idea because it's going to be your

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life

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away and for all these years I'm living

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my life as an artist like a mission I

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don't drink I don't eat a lot I do

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gymnastic every day because the reason

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is so much higher than the ritual

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sacrifice you do every day so uro was

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there a grand debut when I start my

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career as a quick change artist it was

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1979 I I was the only one in the world I

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went to Paris they took me straight away

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I had six costumes it was act like a

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cabar

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act and then I developed this uh form of

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art now for many years I tried to put a

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soul in what I do now I know we all want

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to see the house but before we do this

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isn't just spectacle according to Arturo

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this stuff really has the power to move

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listen to this story each character has

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a different energy a different way of

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walking a different attitude I remember

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in the National Theater in London we

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were doing a play about bombs and it was

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this shellshot soldier who came back

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from the wall and he was left alone in

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this bomb Factory I was dressed as a

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worker and all of a sudden he starts to

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remember this moment of World War and

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the Sounds in the background go

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boom and the costume become the costume

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of the soldier he's running from box to

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box trying to save himself

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until a grenade

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explodes and the soldier became his

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mother in Black crying

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son blackout I mean this was a quick

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change in one second fantastic normally

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you get an huge Applause no I left the

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stage and people audience were like like

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this shocked by emotion and surprise

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after a few seconds they start to CL

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like this and this is one of the biggest

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goal I had in my life where emotion is

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almost stronger than the visual Qui

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quick change today Ur has over 350

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characters in his repertoire and is

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considered in many countries a living

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legend in the world of theater and

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visual performing art

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very often the people ask me what is

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your secret one is the costumes who are

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complicated they are tricky costumes

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they are very expensive and they work

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like origami tissues and that's a

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perfect organization in the wings I have

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assistance no more than two because more

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than two is going to be a problem when I

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am entering into a new costume somebody

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else is holding me a wig and I to put my

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shoes by myself that's happened maybe in

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2 m between one door to another and the

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most incredible thing is the time can be

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cut so first rehearsal 4 seconds after a

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week 3 seconds after two months 2

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seconds until you reach what is almost

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impossible like changing in a snap I

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know you're all wondering like I am

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whether uro is always in character his

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home may offer us some

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Clues well welcome to my magical

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house do you want to hear a violin

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singing here we

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go you know I can come through the wall

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in 3D in this Frame you don't believe me

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well just remove the problem the

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wall it can't be more 3D than

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this oh you're hungry okay let's go

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downstairs it's close

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oh you always have to try the other way

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around you don't trust me okay let's use

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the main door

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hello yes it's for

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you call back

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later for the friends I have you

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forant morphine for the unfriendly

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people cure and

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arsenic well it's

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sugar it's not poison it's just plain

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sugar p put the candle

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back come on uro what's this really all

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about for you the most rewarding thing

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is when people are writing me oh your

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show should be paid by the National

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Insurance or thank you for having given

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me back two hours of my childhood those

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are the most important thing you know in

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Rome once a family arrived in the

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dressing room the little boy who was

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about five asked me but now that the

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show is finished you go home on by taxi

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or you

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fly that's fantastic that's an

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incredible uh expression of of of what

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my Works means because I I flew on stage

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so for him was normal that I was flying

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home after the show that's uh that's me

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make me believe I can be a little bit F

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Christmas no Santa Claus but younger

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