Audiences are smarter today.
They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings. By Mark Shainblum Don Mattera has not had an easy life. Francesco Paolo Mattera was Don Mattera's paternal grandfather. An Italian sailor who jumped ship in South Africa and married an African woman, he founded a family that was a living contradiction of the apartheid system.