THEHe will turn 70 on October 21st. And on the occasion of this important celebration, Eleonora Giorgi decided to talk about the ups and downs of her life in an interview with the weekly magazine Today. Among the themes that you touched on there is also love. Including the one that he decided not to give to those who wanted it for just a night of passion.
Eleonora Giorgi and sex
Eleonora Giorgi’s chat with Today it opens with a reflection on the “no” that he has said, over the course of these almost seventy years. «A “no” is something you have to be able to afford. Talking about me, there were some “no’s” that were neither merit nor demerit, it was simply my nature: those linked to sex. I have never managed to make sex an instrument, I would even say, of knowledge and I regret this. I didn’t understand how much for the male, beyond his instinct, it is a tool for in-depth study.”
This vision, according to Giorgi, undoubtedly also derives from a certain type of education that she received when she was little. «I had a super-Catholic, Neocatechumenal mother. She gave it to us a Nordic sense of freedom, but a vision of guilty sex. There was also another element: I had become public, exposed, at 19 and I had few treasures of my own, sex was one of them. When I made my first film and became the Lolita of Italy I had only made love with my boyfriend and I had kissed two boys before».
Eleonora Giorgi at the Roma Film Fest on 31 October 2017 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. Credit: Stefania D’Alessandro/Getty Images
The nude scene with Christian De Sica
Regarding this, Eleonora Giorgi wanted to remember the first difficulties in erotic films. «Today I can only be grateful. But for many years I felt bad because I didn’t look like that girl. When I tried to explain it, I couldn’t, I belonged to a stereotype: that of the young girl looking for success who undresses.” And then she added: «In reality, in nude scenes, it is the man who is afflicted».
An example? «I remember a film with Christian De Sica and Gigi Proietti, It pays to make love well. Me and Christian naked, but he has a sock there. We had to laugh».
Eleonora Giorgi: drugs and love
The interview is also an opportunity to retrace a crucial moment, the one in which he said “no” to drugs, especially thanks to the relationship he had with Angelo Rizzoli. «We fell in love like crazy, for me it was also a difficult time with heroin, I got out of it thanks to him. The old friends had fallen into it, the new ones in show business too, the kids were all immersed in this thing or were members of the Red Brigades. That was a crucial “no.”».
Has explained. «I was already living with Angelo and those death dealers secretly looked for me. I said one of the most triumphant “no”s of my life. With Angelo we were symbiotic, it would not have been possible to have a parallel life as a drug addict». After the end of his love story with Rizzoli (his son Andrea was born in 1980), Giorgi married the actor Massimo Ciavarro with whom she had her second child, Paolo Ciavarro. Later, after the divorce from Ciavarro, the actress was engaged to the novelist Andrea De Carlo until 2007.
Eleonora Giorgi: Jack Nicholson and the call to Los Angeles
But there are other “no”s that Eleonora Giorgi wanted to share. Starting from that ad Alberto Moravia. «I was 20 years old and I didn’t know, at 20, that you could be with someone older. He seemed like a grandfather to me, think of the cruelty of young people. He said to me: “But why are you greeting me here?”. I gave him a kiss. Looking back now I have one regret, it would have been interesting. At the time, males scared me when he tried Alain Delon I got angry and rejected him.”
And finally, although less romantic, the refusal to Jack Nicholson. «I had had an affair with Warren Beatty, the neighbor was Jack Nicholson. When he came to Italy he told me: “Come and visit me in the hotel”. I go up to his suite, he’s nice, but I tell him no. Twenty years later I’m in Los Angeles with my film as a director, I call him and say: “Jack, do you remember me? Do you want to see my film?”. And he: “I’m not interested, I just want to f*ck you“. He just wanted to have meI replied: ‘Jack, it can’t be done’.”
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