Currently residing in London, Genovese started out her career as an assistant to director Mario Maldesi, the self-styled doyen of Italian dubbing, notably cherry-picked by Stanley Kubrick to synchronise the dialogue from his 1972 film A ClockworkOrange.
But after a school trip to see a much-lauded Royal Shakespeare Company performance of "Richard II, " and a visit to the cinema with classmates to see Stanley Kubrick's controversial " A ClockworkOrange, " his ambitions turned instead to film and theater.