‘The Four Seasons’ Scene-Stealer Marco Calvani On His Return to Acting [VIDEO]

Marco Calvani is a celebrated playwright, screenwriter, director and now… thespian? Actually, Calvani started out as an actor in his teen years and then turned to playwriting in the early 2000s. He’s since had award-winning stage work produced throughout Europe and the U.S. In 2017 he made his first short film, The View from Up Here, followed by A Better Half in 2022. Last year his feature film debut, High Tide, starring his real-life husband Marco Pigossi, played numerous festivals and was released, via Strand, in October. The film received rave reviews. Now Calvani is on a new journey co-starring in one of the most hotly anticipated comedies of the year, The Four Seasons.

Based on the 1981 Alan Alda feature which starred Alda, Carol Burnett and Rita Moreno, this new Netflix series, created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, follows a sextet of friends over the course of one year, on four separate vacations, navigating their own messy relationships and coming to terms with the fact that one couple is about to split up.

The three couples are Kate (Tina Fey) and Jack (Will Forte), Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), and Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Calvani).

Calvani manages the daring feat of taking a queer Italian character and giving him dimension and subtext—making sure he doesn’t devolve into a stereotype by subverting expectations.

His Claude is energetic, spirited—a hoverer, a bit of a smotherer. But the key to his character is the deep love he has for Domingo’s Danny. It’s the kind of performance that should be Emmy-considered.

The show is often hilarious as well as quite poignant and is almost certain to get green-lighted for a second season.

The full eight episodes of The Four Seasons drop globally on May 1, 2025. \

The Contending had a blast Zoom-chatting with Calvani.