Story & Lesson Highlights with Lorenzo Pozzan of Hollywood

Lorenzo Pozzan shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.

Good morning Lorenzo, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What is something outside of work that is bringing you joy lately?
I really love this question, and the cryptic answer would have to be: life.
Let me explain, as cliche’ as this may seem, finding joy or at least newness and discovery in daily habits, from preparing food to walking to the gym, post office or grocery store, to doing daily chores like making my bed in the morning.
Everything registers in a new light when it is filtered through the specific perspective-redirect of ‘working-to-live’ instead of ‘living to work.’
In strongly transitional and uncertain times, especially for young people and professionals, even more so if you are a freelancer, it is important to remind ourselves that the ‘eat what you kill’ hustle-based economy can actually become more of a curb-your-own garden while you broaden and vary the focus of your efforts.
I have really enjoyed traveling to new places, acquiring new skillsets and deepening relationships by stepping into them differently.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Being an actor and storyteller basically means I play make-believe for a living, doing it in 2025 means broadening the horizons of the profession in a way that is compatible to an industry and world that are quickly evolving.
From the previously unimaginable boost of artificial intelligence to the quickly globalizing markets, it has been quite the journey, the good, the bad and the ugly.
This may well be where my personal iteration of being an actor ‘differentiates’ itself from that of others, as I was born and raised multicultural in a trilingual household.
Italian father and French-American mother, sorry, Corsican-French-American, fluent in all three languages and a rolling stone, my whole life has been the circus act of juggling the traditions I come from with the cultures I have discovered and embraced.
This lends itself very well to the panorama of intercontinental, intersectional stories that are being told, which I find myself perfectly at home in.
My film canon for 25/26 is loaded, from an Italian, female-adapted, written, produced and directed romantic comedy where I play the histrionic male-distraction to the lead called “NON E’ LA FINE DEL MONDO”.
To a psychologycal-thriller about time-travel and faith where embody a charming bully you love to hate, or hate that you love, because: perspective.
To an exciting young auteurs first feature I’m hulking up for, where I will be using my fists as much as my wit and polyglot tongue.
And more…

Okay, so here’s a deep one: What breaks the bonds between people—and what restores them?
I think this is such an unexpected but important question, because as much as I love to stay ‘positive’ and politically correct, we are living in a time in which young people, especially in big cities often think they must choose between friendship, social life and growth.
Imposed hustle-culture and the idea that success can only be achieved through individualism makes people function from scarcity rather than abundance, pushing them to relate to others basing themselves on what they can get rather than the value they can bring.
This is a double-whammy of deleterious, on one side eroding self-confidence by pushing you to focus on what you need rather than the value you bring, and on the other making you come across as needy rather than resourceful to whoever you interact with.
I think that not working on our trauma, coping-mechanisms and inner-intricacies in order to be able to present our most interdependent selves is definitely breaking bonds between people, and the way to restore these bonds is interior work.
Therapy, honest communication and wearing vulnerability and imperfections with responsibility rather than trying to hide and pull the wool over them.

When did you last change your mind about something important?
Let me start by saying that my mind is not and never will be fully ‘made’ about many of the big questions in life, because I don’t really feel like I know much.
That being said, a change I’ve gone through so big that it almost feels like a paradigm shift is the expanded understanding of life beyond pure logic.
I used to more of a cut and dry, if you can’t explain it you don’t get it, it’s a circle OR a square kinda guy, but now I believe that their are shades to the gray, and some squares might also be circles.
The truth isn’t one way or another, and the intersection between science, faith, quantum physics, faith and psychology is that place beyond right and wrong where ‘real’ is found.

I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What would your closest friends say really matters to you?
Loyalty, self-realization, humility, courage, honesty, light-heartedness, communication… action.

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. Could you give everything your best, even if no one ever praised you for it?
Hypotheticals are better fuel for thought than actual, objective foundation for any ‘real’ statement, so anything I say is merely a figment of my imagination, possibly influenced by the projection of my desires.
We like to think we are functioning from our deepest truth, or should I say: I like to think that, that I am unaffected by the opinions of others, praise, judgement, influence, but the truth is not black and white like that, not ‘logical’ (see the pattern ;-)).
Because we exist through others, and their opinions and perception of us, and because we ourselves use the filter of our perception, it is unrealistic to think that we would be able to entirely shed all ‘influences’.
So, to answer the question, probably not, because like everyone else, some level of approval is intrinsic, but the idea of playing full out, unapologetically, when nobody is watching is the aspirational albeit utopistic north star that shines light, determining my path on the destinationless journey that is life.

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