Benedetta Porcaroli has joined The Gentlemen 2 as Contessa Isabella Soranza de Parma, bringing another Italian name into Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series. The new episodes were set to stream on 3 September, and the season places her inside a story that has already moved Eddie Horniman and Susie Glass to Italia.
Porcaroli said the production was “sorprendente. Sono stata su un jet privato, ho imparato a guidare, a sparare, a occuparmi di falchi. Lavorano così: ti danno referenze, ti fanno vedere dei film, ti dicono 'Leggi questo libro'. Zero acting coach, zero coach per l’inglese, niente. Stanno appiccicati alla macchina. Guy Ritchie si nasconde nel suo camper, tutto scenografato alla Sherlock Holmes, coi divani di pelle e gli arredi fine Ottocento. Non scende per ore. Ma appena c'è qualcosa che non va, arriva di corsa. Ha un'attenzione impressionante per il set. Ed è un uomo spiritoso e generoso”.
Italia in the second season
One year after the first season, The Gentlemen 2 shifts the action to Italia, where Eddie Horniman and Susie Glass expand their business. Kaya Scodelario said they had done so “con grande successo,” but the new setting brings fresh obstacles and puts Eddie on a different path from the one many viewers expected.
Contessa Isabella Soranza de Parma is described as an Italian aristocrat involved with organized crime, which makes Porcaroli’s role more than a decorative casting note. It also extends her run in international productions after Immaculate and Netflix’s adaptation of Il Gattopardo, keeping her inside the kind of cross-border projects that travel well beyond domestic audiences.
Eddie, Bella, Susie
Although many fans think Eddie’s endgame is Susie, the source says Bella is the one who wins his heart in the second season, and Eddie and Bella end badly. That complication is the sharpest piece of story logic here: the romance does not resolve into the expected pairing, and it leaves Susie’s position in the season even more charged.
Sergio Castellitto and Michele Morrone are also in the cast, giving the season a stronger Italian profile around Porcaroli’s arrival. For viewers, the useful takeaway is simple: the show’s new phase is already built around Italia, and Porcaroli’s character sits inside the season’s business-and-romance collision rather than on its edge.
3 September streaming
The 3 September streaming date gives the role an immediate shelf life, because this is not a slow rollout or a vague future credit. It is a timed release inside a second season that was set one year after the first, with a new cast lane, a new country, and a new relationship conflict driving the episodes.
Porcaroli also said Guy Ritchie hid in his camper for hours and came quickly whenever something was wrong, and she called him attentive, funny, and generous. That kind of set detail usually tells you as much as the casting itself: this was a production run with tight control, and Porcaroli is entering it as a performer already expected to work at the level of an international ensemble. How exactly Eddie and Bella end in The Gentlemen 2 is the part worth watching first.
