Lper couple Monica Bellucci-Tim Burton held court at Rome Film Festival. She is the star of this edition. After Diabolik who are you? the actress presented the docu-film by Tom Volf and Yannis Dimolitsas Maria Callas: letters and memoirs which tells of the theater tour, which began in 2019, and took place in various countries around the world. The actress traces the life of the woman rather than the artistits fragility and vulnerability.
Maria Callas and Monica Bellucci
«I didn’t know her Callas as a woman, I knew of his troubled history with Onassisbut with this project, reading his words and his memories, it is as if I had come into contact with his soul and his vulnerability – tells Bellucci – I was afraid to put myself out there on stage, something I had never done before. I went beyond the fear and tiptoed into the life of Marynot of Callas.”
«One of his phrases struck me: “I feel like a little bird who is happy when he sings, but when he is sad he retreats into his nest and dies.” This woman still inspires so much today and she is not only the great soprano, the diva, the divine, she is a woman who had a sincere and simple heart – continues Bellucci – was courageous: he wanted to divorce when it wasn’t possible in Italy, he sacrificed his youth for work and when he met Onassis he sacrificed everything he had achieved in life for love. This is why she inspires so many artists like Marina Abramović, Fanny Ardant and Angelina Jolie (interpreter of Callas in the new film by Pablo Larrain ed.)”.
Monica Bellucci: «Divas no longer exist»
Maria Callas she was an unattainable diva. «At the time the divas were unreachable, there was a certain distance between them and the public and if they made a mistake they paid dearly – says the actress – today the divas no longer exist, also due to social media which have eliminated the distance between them and the people.” The new forms of communication «have created a normalization and trivialization of stardom – underlines the actress – the exception no longer exists, now everything is public».
The positive thing today is that «women are able to work even at an advanced age – the actress believes – previously actresses had a limited duration in the world of entertainment because they were unable to guarantee the public image they had created for themselves. Today, old age is not seen as an obstacle, you are no longer afraid of experiencing the change in your body. Let’s think for example of films like My pleasure with Emma Thompson, they couldn’t have been done before».
Monica Bellucci in (Foot Marcel Hartmann)
Love for Tim Burton: «I’m happy to have met him»
On Beetlejuice 2 Monica Bellucci cannot be unbuttoned, she only tells us that she is shooting the film in Paris Paris Paradis by the Iranian director Marjan Satrapi. Come on Tim Burton instead he unbuttons: «I am happy to have met a man with a beautiful souland also a director who I respect very much.”
Monica Bellucci is happy that the daughter Deva Cassel is projected in the world of cinema (he will be the protagonist of the series The leopard ed.). «I’m happy to see her happy, that’s what matters most, the world of cinema is beautiful if done in a certain way. I’m happy to see her enthusiastic. My advice is always to do what excites and amuses you.”
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