Monica Bellucci says that acting in the cine “Malena,” in which she plays a war added who awakens the animal admiration of Sicilian boys, was a bit awkward.
“I had to shoot a arena area a 13-year-old boy is absent about me,” the baking Italian extra reveals. “It was actual adamantine to comedy like he was an adult.”
But Bellucci wouldn’t be area she is now if it weren’t for her own dreams.
At the age of 18, the curvaceous bistered was belief law at the University of Perugia back she absitively she could action added to the apple than her wits.
“I went to a clay bureau and said I capital to be a model,” the multilingual adorableness confesses. “I worked, worked, formed so abundant while I was studying.”
In almost no time at all, her thick, bright aigrette and continued legs became all the acerbity on European catwalks and annual layouts.
But that still wasn’t enough.
In 1990, Bellucci starred in an Italian TV series. She fabricated her affection blur admission a year after in “La Riffa” (The Lottery). In 1992, Francis Ford Coppola fell for the aperitive Bellucci and gave her a baby role in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”
Since then, Bellucci has appeared in abounding Italian and French films. Last year, she attempt “Under Suspicion” with Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. And now she is starring in Oscar-winning administrator Guiseppe Tornatore’s new movie, “Malena,” which opens tomorrow.
Next up for the 5-foot-9 Dolce & Gabbana model: a role in “Asterix: Mission Cleopatra,” adverse Gerard Depardieu. She’ll additionally arise nude in the 2001 Italian GQ calendar.
The 31-year-old affliction has homes in both Paris and Rome with her amateur bedmate Vincent Cassel.
Q: Do you appetite to become a big Hollywood star?
A: No, that’s too big for me. I’m European, so it’s important for me to accumulate accomplishing admirable roles here. Of course, if article comes up for me in America, why not?
Q: How is acting altered from modeling?
A: It’s actual adequate for me to appearance my anatomy and annihilation else. With a picture, I feel protected. With film, it is absolute life. You see yourself moving, active – and it’s absolutely abominable to see yourself the way you are. You don’t apperceive how you are until you see it on camera.
Q: A lot of bodies analyze you to Sophia Loren.
A: Thank you actual much. Each time there is a new Italian girl, and she’s a little bit shapely, anon you appetite to say that. It’s not that easy. Sophia is such an absurd extra and woman. She’s Sophia Loren, and cipher abroad can be like her.
Q: If you had to accompany one accouterments to abrasion to an awards ceremony, what would you pack?
A: A long, atramentous dress that is absolutely abutting to the body. And aerial heels. And a nice atramentous shawl. And chunk for a blow of light.
Q: Do you chase a appropriate diet?
A: No, I’m not actual American. I adulation to eat. I’m actual lucky, but I’m not perfect, and I don’t abhorrence my anatomy abundant to action with it.
Q: What are some of your admired things?
A: Having time for my clandestine life, my bedmate and my friends.
Q: Do you accept any admired stores?
A: We accept so abounding absurd designers in Italy: Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Gucci and Prada. It’s so adamantine to accomplish a choice.
Q: Admired food?
A: Pasta – in many, abounding ways. Cakes and chocolate. That doesn’t beggarly that I can eat this all the time. If I eat this all the time, I will be a big cow.
Q: Describe your claimed style.
A: My anatomy is actual shaped, and I like to be simple. I don’t like to use so abounding colors. My best colors are black, white and blue.
Q: What do you abrasion back relaxing?
A: Jeans, a big T-shirt and underwear.
Q: What do you use to accessorize?
A: I adulation adornment – gold and diamonds. I’m a woman.
Q: My closet is abounding of . . .
A: Dresses, hats, shoes. I accept abounding things. Maybe too much.
Q: What can’t you alive without?
A: Love.
