The Death in Venice brought to the Swedish Björn Andrésen, 15, but the price was extremely high.
Death in Venice made Björn Andrésen, Sweden for a mega -class star. Aop
Death in Venice -ing movie (1971) did Björn from Andrésen International star only at the age of 15. He was a director Luchino Viscontin discovery. Sir -like Swedish boy, who was called “the most beautiful son in the world” thanks to the film.
In the film, elderly writer Gustav von Aschenbach travels on vacation to Venice, where he gets into the palas of a beautiful young Polish boy Tadzio. Björn Andrésen was chosen to play the role of Tadzio. He was even compared to Michelangelo’s famous David statue, even though he was only a minor child at the time.
It was only afterwards that Björn Andrésen has realized the director Viscont’s annoying motives, and that everything did not go properly. Now, in his seventies, Andrésen has described the died in 1976 as a “cultural predator” who used his appearance and sexualized him to advertise the film.
Dailyn Mail According to the actor, the actor says the film ruined his life. Andrésen has suffered from mental health problems all her life, and there has been alcoholism in her ries. In 2021, he was said to live alone in a small apartment and spend his time chain burned tobacco and quarrel with his ON-off girlfriend. He was also in trouble with his landlord because he had once left the gas stove, which is really dangerous.
No one would recognize Björn Andrésen anymore as a beautiful teenager he was in the movie. Today, a man is a gray-haired wizard-like revelation with a galdalf-style long white hair.
This is what Björn Andrésen looks like now. Aop
Harsh experiences
The life of Björn Andrésen, born in Stockholm, was quite a rally from a young age. His mother died through her own hand when the boy was 10 years old, after which she grew up with her grandparents. He never learned who was his real father. Björn Andrésen was not interested in acting or musician, but grandmother sent her to test and pressured to become famous. So he finally ran into Viscont, who realized that he had found a star.
The actor’s tragic story was heard in 2021 The Most Beautiful Boy in the World in the documentary, where he got out loud himself. In it, a Swedish boy is leaving a room full of young underage boys and a viscont.
– How old is he? Asked the director to see Andrésen.
After hearing the boy was 15 years old, he continued.
– Fifteen? Very beautiful. Can you ask him to take off? The director asked the member of his team.
Andrésen has had a scary feeling, especially in the test descriptions, where he had to take off in front of an adult man.
– I wasn’t ready for it. When I posed against the wall, I would never stand so. Now that I look at that picture, that bastard sexualizes me.
Andrésen acknowledged $ 4,000 for his role.
Visconti told the rest of the shooting team to stay away from the star. A young boy was also loaded with a bunch of strange rules that he had to follow “to maintain his beauty.” Among other things, Andrésen couldn’t get sunbathing, kicking football with friends, swimming in a polluted sea, or doing anything that would have brought her pleasure. Filming was suffering from start to finish.
Filming was suffering for a young Swedish boy. Aop
The experiences have been bitter. Aop
It left traumas and eternal stamp. The premiere of the queen came Elizabeth and princess Annebut already at that time, Viskont thinks that a young Björn, who was 16, had fallen.
Death in Venice is a sexual minority cult classic. Visconti was openly homosexual and took his minor main star without hindrance to celebrate gay clubs.
– It was really embarrassing. I think he tested me to see if I was gay.
Björn Andrésen says that the rich Parisians have later bombed him with his gifts.
– I was a sex object.
The shy Swedish boy took it to Japan, where his fatman caused a beatleman in fans like Beatlemania. Björn’s beauty was so captivating that he became a model for the main character of the famous The Rose of Versailles series. Later, he settled in Paris, where the rich men’s Rinki funded his life and offered a place to live. He admitted that he was naive in the documentary and did not understand the rugged motives behind the pampering.
Andrésen received gifts from the rich Parisians after his role. Aop
After the role
The iconic role did not bring happiness, on the contrary. Björn Andrésen describes that he was sexually confused, and the female relationships did not succeed.
He married in 1984 Suzanna Roman -The poet was named, and had two children, one of whom died as a nine month -old baby. Dad had been lying next to his sleeping son, drinking liquor when the child was found dead next to him. It struck a man’s depression.
Andrésen resorted to a bottle and disappeared from publicity. Some people even thought he was dead until 2003 heard signs of life. He complained of his photograph of unauthorized use on the cover of a book.
In his documentary, the man admitted that he was still depressed.
– In the field of my life and my career, I stumbled upon many things, he summed up.