When Enea Pagni stepped off the plane in New York at eighteen with nothing but a suitcase and a dream, he couldn’t have imagined that four years later he’d be landing a role in an Italian Netflix miniseries. The trajectory from regional print model in Italy to performing in award-winning films screened at the Brooklyn Film Festival reads like something from a screenplay itself.
Yet for Pagni, the journey represents more than personal success. It embodies a broader conversation about what it means to be a transnational artist in an increasingly interconnected entertainment industry, where American training methods meet European storytelling traditions, and where an actor must navigate multiple cultural frameworks to survive.
