The actress: “Me Too” was a liberation but I’m not afraid of courtship. I was wanted, desired. And brutally betrayed. In the famous scene of Chaos Calmo with Nanni Moretti there is nothing murky. In Paris I lived with Monica Bellucci
TAORMINA – «In the film I am the symbol of an adolescent love that refers to the 80s, that’s why they called me. They are an excellent vintage ». Isabella Ferrari
leads to the Taormina Festival My shadow is yours by Eugenio Cappuccio. She is the love lost and rediscovered by Marco Giallini, writer of a single novel invited to Milan at the vintage fair.
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Nostalgia for those years?
“No, I never say how good it was. Of course, I miss the youth. But I go on. Always, always, always. I survived the 1980s and I’m here. I realize that I still have an important popularity. Some have seen it ten times Taste of sea».
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Was she a rebellious girl?
«Neither rebellious nor transgressive. I arrived from Piacenza to Rome when I was a minor, accompanied by my truck driver uncle. Dad traded in cattle. I embodied my mother’s dream. I didn’t have time to think about what I would like to do. I was carried away by her energy, brought tooth and nail, at the age of 15, to Miss Teenager Italy ».
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«Beautiful», Luchino Visconti’s film is her …
“It’s my story. My 20 years were not interesting because I suffered the charm I had, the success on TV and in the cinema. This is why I have no nostalgia for anything ».
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From a sulky girl of «Sapore di sale» to a sophisticated muse of the authors.
«The first time at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for Appointment in Liverpool by Marco Tullio Giordana the whistles went off in my name. I was the comedy actress, unthinkable that I was in Venice. A lot of things changed after that movie. It was an achievement played on the pitch. I have always accepted transformations and I have acted with my head and heart ».
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Being a “femme fatale” past the age of fifty?
“It’s hard. I am a woman aged well, I can still say beautiful. But it’s hard to think of me like that. I keep leaving traces of myself, to be or not to be the protagonist of a film doesn’t count that much ».
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That scene from “Calm Chaos”, the sodomy …
«Just because he is Nanni Moretti caused a scandal. There is nothing murky about that scene. The real scandal is the horrific news of abortion restrictions in the US. I thought: if I went back, I would do what I did ».
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What are you referring to?
«To abortions. I’ve never talked about it. It happened to me as a girl … I look back on it with pain, but without guilt. Before the life of an embryo comes the life of the woman. I am for that freedom. You will risk dying with clandestine abortions, it’s a horrible turning back. “
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Do you feel like telling?
“I was 17, too young, I felt that that sweetheart from Piacenza could not be the man of my life, and it is always a feminine decision, luckily I was accompanied by my mother, I would not have known how to deal with it”.
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She must have been so beautiful who knows how many indecent proposals.
“I’ve been obsessed with being masculine. It was exhausting. I tried to manage these situations with directors, actors, producers, my acting teacher, Franco Califano… The Me Too it was a liberation. Some things will never happen again. I suffered an annoying, constant, arrogant male abuse. I can’t stand women who report being attacked twenty years earlier in a hotel room ”.
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Will we sooner or later arrive at a reconciliation of the sexes, as your friend Monica Bellucci hopes?
“But I don’t want to be afraid of courtship. I lived with Monica as a girl in Paris in a small apartment that belonged to Ugo Tognazzi. We slept together. She was a model, in the morning, cappuccino and cigarette, self-confident, she made her business phone calls; I, an insecure actress, used to go to the payphone near the house with lots of coins and call the analyst ».
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Has she been betrayed, has she been betrayed?
«In the past there has been a lot of talk about a love story of mine, when in 1982 in a disco I fell in love with Roberto Rossellini, I was so young and I didn’t think that uproar would break loose. He was the fiancé of Caroline of Monaco. I have suffered a lot from the infidelity of some boyfriends. I was very beautiful, wanted, desired. And at the same time brutally betrayed ».
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Is it linked to its land?
«My Christmas gift is the cup and the Gutturnio wine from my area. At a dinner Bernardo Bertolucci, who was from Parma, scolded me: didn’t you bring me the cold cuts? ».
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Her mother chose for her the life she was to live. Fame, success. Have you ever scolded her?
«I am ashamed to talk about the maternal unconscious. I got over it, I transformed it. It seems to me that I start over every day, as a woman, as a mother, as a wife ».
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June 29, 2022 (change June 29, 2022 | 09:09)
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