Parenting & Family Quote by Franco Nero

Nero frames the western not as a genre he works in, but as a private fuel source he keeps returning to. The line is structured like a vow, almost superstitious in its repetition: “did and will do; I will do.” He’s not selling versatility; he’s declaring allegiance. For an actor whose face became synonymous with the spaghetti western’s cool mythmaking, that insistence reads less like nostalgia than like a disciplined choice to stay in conversation with the role that made him legible to the world.

The “never ending young kid inside of me” is doing double duty. On the surface it’s boyish fandom: the kid who watched gunfights and open horizons and wanted to step into them. Underneath, it’s a canny acknowledgment of what the western offers performers of a certain era: a clean, durable grammar of masculinity, where motion equals meaning and moral complexity can be worn as a squint. It’s also a way of dodging the industry’s harsher story about aging. Instead of “still working,” he’s “still playing.” The kid becomes a permission slip.

Context matters: Nero came up when the western was both pop entertainment and European reinvention, a place where style could outrun realism and myth could be retooled into something more cynical, more modern. His quote taps that same trick. By pledging himself to the genre’s fantasy, he quietly admits its utility: the western lets an actor keep chasing youth without pretending time isn’t passing.