Michele Morrone on becoming ‘meme of the year’

In 2020, while most of the world suffered lockdown during a global pandemic – one meme seemed to capture how the world was feeling.

It read: ‘2020 was a bad year for everyone, except for this guy’ plastered over a picture of a startlingly handsome man laughing. The ‘guy’ it was referring to was Michele Morrone.

The post was re-posted, re-tweeted and liked in huge numbers. Quickly spreading around the internet like wildfire. And it remains to this day, casually being re-posted as new areas go back into lockdowns for the second time.

We recently sat down with the star of Netflix’s ‘365 Days’ to ask him how it felt

“Yeah I saw that,” chuckles Morrone. “I feel bad for saying it, but the truth is 2020 was my lucky year!” he says with a shrug of his shoulders and showing the palm of his hands, in a typically animated Italian gesture signifying ‘what can I do about it?’.

The actor certainly has had a fantastic year.

You can read our full interview with Michele Morrone right here.

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