Giacomo Gianniotti
Appearances
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Okay, great. It's a great name. Thank you. It's the only one I have.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Like, he's going to have to be.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
We're going to give him this name. He's going to have to grow into it. He's just going to have to rise to the level. It really worked out for you.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Well, look, I was raised in Canada and there was a lot of like Doug's and Nathan and Justin's and I was Giacomo. So it was very weird. Okay. Small town in North of Ontario in Canada.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Oh yeah, absolutely. Oh, I was like, my whole goal was to assimilate. Like I'm not Italian.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
I don't care.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Yes. Yes. We have a very exciting episode on wild cards. That's all very sort of housewives themed. Now, did you do any like watching of the housewives? I didn't. I didn't. And I think it was it was.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
The most fun was watching everyone at work freak out that she was coming to work and me not really understanding and being like, oh, yeah, like they just told me like we have this like really great talent from the Housewives and like she's going to come here and she's going to add like such value to our episode because she's like in that world. She's so iconic and recognizable and everything.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Thank you. Thank you.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Thank you.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
ton of money because they could just sell them for like well i don't know like twenty thousand dollars great people like great like yes give me a bicycle i'm going crazy i'm stuck in my house did you start like a like a bike club with your friends for those i didn't it's always been a very solo kind of thing for me which i like like it's meditative like i i feel like i solve a lot of problems when i'm out there i'm just thinking i don't know it's like even the shower like sometimes you ever just be in the shower and you're just alone with your thoughts there's no technology there's no nothing and you're like
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Oh, there's that problem that I'm trying to solve. Like, there we go.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Yeah. There you go.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
We aren't very like materialistic people. We don't like buying like items. We like doing like trips and experiences. So like that's where like we decide to like invest like our money. So it's like instead of like buying like a handbag or a cool car or like a Rolex, it's like I have an Apple watch. It's like the most expensive watch I own. And we like being like, oh, let's go to this hotel.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Let's go to this cabin for the weekend. Oh, there's this, like, cool, like, tiki thing on the beach we found in this, like, place. Like, let's fly there.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
You don't have to say the name if you don't want to get it. There was this place. Because then it'll be ruined and everyone will be there. Everyone will be there. No, it's funny. We I've been shooting wild cards in Vancouver and there's this place on the way up to Whistler between Vancouver and Whistler called Nita Lake. And they have this place called the Nita Lake Lodge.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
And it's like what you would imagine of a lodge, you know, big like wood cabin lodge. Very simple, like not fancy, but like all the details done very well. They got a nice spa. It's on a lake. You can like kayak and canoe. There's walking trails. It's just very about kind of like unplugging and just being connected with nature. And so I've had a couple breaks while I've been there shooting.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
I think it was like the Thanksgiving weekend and some other weekend.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
we we shoot up there and we go there for like three days also we have a dog so it's like dog friendly that's like huge that's like the place has to have like be dog friendly yeah so we have a great time there just like unplugging and just like going for a kayak in the morning with a cup of coffee and going for a walk do you like shooting in vancouver yeah it's beautiful yeah especially in the summer when it's not raining so much it's gorgeous what is like considered something like when do we start summer in vancouver do we know
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Yeah, I mean like June.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Yeah, June, July.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
The island is also really beautiful, Vancouver Island. Okay. I've never been to Vancouver. It's a place called Tofino. So you're on the ocean and like surfers come there from all over the world to surf as well. I know they're really just beautiful. Like you want to just kind of unplug a lot of like cabin and nature and beaches and it's really pretty.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Hmm. I guess like I've been always riding the line of kind of leading man. And I think I just have way much, much more fun playing against that. Like I like playing people who are like complicated and disturbed or evil or, you know what I mean? And I have a lot, I just got back from shooting this little Indian in Calgary where I was a cult leader.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
And I, I don't think I've had that much fun in a long time. Just being like, how far can I take this? Like how, like, I'm going to go all the way. Like this guy is absolutely.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Yeah. Yeah. It's just so fun to just like slip that on. You know what I mean? And just, and then yeah, be finished your day.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Well, if you see like, you know, there's all these like documentaries on Netflix and stuff about like cults and cult leaders and things and like how they came to be. And you're like, how did all these people fall for this thing? And it's usually like, a handsome guy who like knows how to talk. Yeah. Right. And it always says, Hey, come in, like sit down. Like we have a lot of cool things here.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
There's like a hand on your thigh and like, and like, Whoa, what is this guy? Whoa.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Yeah. It's like, there's always like, yeah.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Being a Roman born in Rome, I love the ancient civilization of Rome. And, like, you know, when I've seen films like The Original Gladiator when I was growing up, like, those films just, like, have my whole heart. God, yeah. If I could just teleport and like live in that time, like I had a lot of problems that time. It was very problematic.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
But, you know, there's something kind of like I romanticize about it.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Not all like the hunger and war and famine and strife. I like romanticize all the like fighting as a gladiator and stuff. It's like, yeah, I'm like, I'm a guy.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
I have seen it. Yeah. Do you think it holds up? I'm a big Ridley Scott fan. So I just like the spectacle of it all, how large and grandiose it is, is beautiful to me. And Denzel was terrific. Yeah. I think there's certain moments of like the historical inaccuracies that give me a little, like there's sharks in the Coliseum swimming around. Didn't eat the sharks.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
At that point, just put laser beams on their head to go full.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Yeah. That was. No. And it shouldn't have been. And I think that was good. But no, I thought the cast did great. It was a beautiful film. I was engaged the whole time. I was never bored and the energy maintained. I thought it was a great film.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
And there is records of ships being brought in, but like they weren't that big and there wasn't that much water. It was like small little boats. It was like.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Do you have any fun summer plans coming up? Fun summer plans. Every year I try to go to Italy because my grandmother's there, my family's there, so I definitely still have plans in May to go to Italy.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
There's a lot of really beautiful ones. I think Bologna is one of my favorite cities. I shot an Italian film there years ago and I got to live there for like almost six months. And it is terrific. Apart from it being probably one of the best food in all of Italy, just the north is just terrific. But it was just like this small little city. It's not a town. It's a proper city.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
It has like all the things you could possibly want. But you can walk from one side to the other in like half an hour. It's got one of the biggest universities there. So you have like this injection of like youth and culture and life. And you hear like... Spanish and German and French at restaurants because all the young students from all over are studying there.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
So it's just very cool melting pot, very artistic. There's a music school there too. So you have young musician students that are playing on the streets and art. It's a very inspiring place.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
She's working on it and she's been working on it for nine years now.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
It's a slow burn, but we're getting there.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
We've gone back and forth. It's like sometimes I'll try teaching and sometimes she'll use the apps and stuff. So, yeah. It's always better when we're there and spending time there. She gets back into the groove. But then when we leave, it's like it's hard to kind of like maintain it.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
No.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
What did you just say? Nothing. That's funny. Do you like games? Of course. Yeah, sure. I'm waiting for the guest who says, let me rephrase. Depends.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
I'm going to guess like a reality TV show. Yeah, that feels reality.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Helping your husband fake cancer?
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
I'm going to go real on that one.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Vicky did that?
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
We have to say that. Allegedly. Allegedly.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
I would probably go up that it was written.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Glee. There you go.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
That's pretty close. God, yeah, I don't know.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Television?
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Reality?
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
All Real Housewives? Yeah.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Yes.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
My wife, Nicole, would know all of this because she's like into true crime like every other woman is. She'd be like, oh, yes, that happened in 1991.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
It's actually true.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
True.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Oh, no. I mean, cut that.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
That seems too specific to be television. Yeah, Carvel ice cream. That feels real.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
And he had another family that he had kids with?
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
So it's like husband 2.0. Yeah. Slightly improved, maybe. It's like when you still liked him, you know? Oh, you're like him when I still liked him. I remember you.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
real it's from Severance Severance oh yeah okay do you watch Severance I do yeah I'm not all caught up I know the finale happened I think I'm like two or three episodes behind are you watching White Lotus I've only watched the first episode of that okay you are so busy yes I've been very busy lately ruining your vacation with friends by getting arrested for a felony I know written
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
It started really strong. You did, yeah. It got too right, and then it's just been wrong ever since. You have more faith in humanity.
The Viall Files
E912 - Giacomo Gianniotti, Iliza Shlesinger, RHOBH Reunion, White Lotus, and Sydney Sweeney’s Breakup
Kyle never did anything. You're a pretty good person. Thank you. I appreciate it.