Sophia Loren to return to silver screen with Edoardo Ponti’s The Human Voice

Sophia Loren, who is known for portrayingCesira in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, will once again glam the silver screen.The firstrenowned Italian actress to win an Academy Award in talkies’ era, has agreed to show case her acting proficiencies for his sonEdoardo Ponti’s directorial debut.

La voce umana(The Human Voice) is based on a play written byFrench poet and writerJean Cocteau. Thisone person drama written in French was firstcarried out as a stage version in 1930.The78-year-old idol, who last worked in 2011 Cars 2, will be seen in a major role in the flick being shot in Rome, Naples and Ostia. The rolling for the same has started and will last for three months including the current month i.e. July.

Sophia’s last television appearance was withLa mia casa e’ piena di specchi(My House if Full of Mirrors),where she played a mother ofMargareth Made(who playedyoung Loren).La voce umana will mark as the first venture of Ponti, directing his own mother for a full length film. Before this, the 40-year-oldEdoardo has cast his mother for afeature film debut, a 2002 dramaCuori estrani (Between Strangers).