As we move further and further into quarantine with seemingly no hope of making it out to the other side, I’ve found that people are developing new, often bizarre obsessions to stay sane in COVID-induced solitude. For some, these obsessions are healthy—productive even: Learning to cook or knit, or developing an aptitude for woodworking.

For me, it’s mostly been trying to binge watch as much film and television as I possibly can to numb myself to the outside world, and the more I watched, the more one actor began to pop up over and over again. While my 2020 may have been a year I’d like to forget, it’s been an outstanding year for the dreamy, insanely talented Italian actor Luca Marinelli—whose filmography has recently become my latest COVID obsession.