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...While I was writing my thesis, I also worked as a freelance journalist." Di Cosmo says. "One day, a Chinese director I interviewed drafted me to be in his film, Xi-An Incident, where Chiang Kaishek is kidnapped. I played an American military officer who was invited to a ball. I had to learn how to waltz for the scene, but then again, I got to dance with a very attractive actress...
After his brief foray in Chinese cinema, Di Cosmo came back to Venice in 1982 to finish his thesis...
...Cosmo's luck changed in 1984 when he won a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Education to study abroad at a graduate program...
...just about to take a job interpreting at that year's Venice film festival," Di Cosmo recalls. "But two days after I was notified, I was on a plane...
...Cosmo's destination was a university in Bloomington, Indiana, where, ironically, he went through "incredible" culture shock--much more than when he was in China...