This was not just any casting call, but one for “My Brilliant Friend,” an adaptation of the first of the four smash-hit Neapolitan Novels written by Elena Ferrante, whose hidden identity enthralled the literary world and whose books have sold more than a million copies. Then she approached the desk where she gave her name and age and got a numbered slip of paper and a parental release form. Above her, more children were hanging out the window, and above them, more were crammed onto a balcony. Marta Reale, 10, her smile broad, her bangs blanched, made her way to a recreation center’s doorway through the dense crowd of other children, sunlit cigarette smoke and mothers fanning themselves on the seats of scooters. NAPLES, Italy - A legion of children raced up a dead-end street in Sanità, a tough Naples neighborhood dripping with laundry and suddenly brimming with the promise of stardom. A Casting Call in Naples Lets Children Dream, if for a Day
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