I was all alone and it gave me a lot of time to think about what is important. And I realised I don't want to lose my wife." He later told the press, "More than a year ago I started to get uncomfortable in the front of the camera.Something inside of me has changed." However, he has continued performing sex in titles such as Rocco One on One and Rocco's Intimate Castings. will tell you that they have done things with him that they never do with anyone else." Style of pornography Īctress Bobbi Starr noted of Siffredi, "Any girl in the industry who has been with him. Siffredi being interviewed by Rocco Tanica at Lucca Comics & Games 2016 the eyes going up from being surprised." In mainstream media Speaking of his female partners, Siffredi says, "I want to see emotion. Siffredi is one of a few porn actors to enjoy crossover appeal and success with respect to other segments of the adult film industry, as well as some in mainstream media. In 1999, he appeared in the controversial Catherine Breillat film Romance. His performance in this role was followed by a part specifically written for him by the same director in her 2003 film Anatomie de L'enfer ( Anatomy of Hell), in which he played a gay man who became sexually involved with a woman. In 2012, he made a cameo as himself in the successful French comedy Porn in the Hood.īoth films featured unsimulated sexual scenes involving Siffredi, although it is disputed whether he actually had intercourse with co-star Caroline Ducey in Romance (she said no, Siffredi said yes). Siffredi is also visible in non-pornographic roles on Italian television, including television commercials for Amica Chips, a snack food, which have spawned considerable controversy and have at one point been taken off the air, a Cielo show, Ci pensa Rocco, and a La 5 docu-reality series, Casa Siffredi. In 1997, Italian band Elio e Le Storie Tese dedicated a song and a video, "Rocco e Le Storie Tese", to Siffredi. Siffredi himself directed the video, also appearing in it. He also duetted with the band in the song "Un bacio piccolissimo" at the 63rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.