We Are Who We Are

We Are Who We Are is an American limited series based on an original idea by Paolo Giordano. A coming-of-age story set in an army base in Italy. The series is created, written, produced and directed by Luca Guadagnino. It will premiere on HBO on September 14, 2020 and Sky Atlantic on October 9, 2020. The series will also be available to stream on HBO Max and NOW TV. In the United Kingdom, the limited series will air on BBC Three.

Synopsis
We Are Who We Are follows two American teenagers who live on an American military base with their parents in Italy. The series explores typical teenage drama themes including friendship, love and overall confusion—only in this little slice of America in Italy.

Main

 * Jack Dylan Grazer as Fraser Wilson
 * Jordan Kristine Seamon as Caitlin Poythress
 * Spence Moore II as Danny Poythress
 * Francesca Scorsese as Britney Orton
 * Ben Taylor as Sam Pratchett
 * Corey Knight as Craig Pratchett
 * Chloë Sevigny as Sarah Wilson
 * Alice Braga as Maggie Teixeira
 * Kid Cudi as Richard
 * Faith Alabi as Jenny Poythress
 * Tom Mercier as Jonathan Kritchevsky
 * Sebastiano Pigazzi as Enrico

Recurring

 * Beatrice Barichella as Valentina
 * Vittoria Bottin as Sole

Trivia

 * “We Are Who We Are” is being produced by Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani for Wildside, with international sales handled by Wildside’s parent company, Fremantle.
 * The series is Guadagnino’s first for TV.
 * Luca Guadagnino directed all eight episodes of the first season.
 * The series is executive produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment and Mario Gianani for Wildside, with Small Forward, alongside Guadagnino, Elena Recchia, Nick Hall, Sean Conway, and Francesco Melzi d’Eril.
 * Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri write alongside Guadagnino.
 * The series is a co-production with Sky, the pay TV operator only has exclusive rights for Italy.
 * The project is a HBO-Sky series.
 * On August 13, 2020 it was announced that the series premieres on HBO on September 14, and will bow on Sky Italia this fall. The BBC premiere will follow soon after.
 * BBC Three has taken UK rights to the series.
 * Guadagnino said that he purposely set the show in the midst of the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a way to comment on the political tumult unleashed by Donald Trump’s victory.
 * In the show, the characters refer to the military base as ‘America’ despite the fact that it is in the middle of Italy.
 * “We Are Who We Are” has a fair amount of full-frontal male nudity.
 * We Are Who We Are was selected as part of 2020 Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight, though didn’t screen as the fest was cancelled by the pandemic.
 * The series will be a special screening as an official selection of the 2020 San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Development
In February 2019, it was announced that Guadagnino, was in talks with HBO to work on a new one-hour, eight-episode show tentatively titled We Are Who We Are. With Guadagnino directing the first two episodes as well as the season finale, and writing the project with Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri. Lorenzo Meili and Riccardo Neri were named as executive producers.

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