All you need to know about Monica Bellucci movie “On The Milky Road”
How she transcended her beauty in order to affirm her talent as an actress with the greatest directors ?
UniqBeauties.com: You are gorgeous, shockingly beautiful… but don’t you ever get bored of people telling you that every five minutes?
MONICA BELLUCCI: You can never have enough compliments. In life we're subjected to so many insults and unkind attacks that a nice word, from time to time, can’t do any harm.
What are the pros and cons of being so sublime?
Oh la la! Sublime, really!
The pros?
Well in the words of Oscar Wilde, “Beauty lasts five minutes in life if you don’t have other qualities to maintain the interest.” And you know being pretty when you’re an actress is like a painful banality.
Do you know many ugly actresses?
If I was an astronaut it would be more original.
With your daring choice of movies over the years have you made an active decision to escape the archetypal “woman-object”?
No. Let’s just say there is always a slight complex with women who have an advantageous physique to prove themselves as credible actresses. For me it’s been doubly difficult because I started out as a model.
A double death defying leap. It’s as if beauty creates a sort of mask that stops emotions from showing. This prejudice is still very widespread.
Your question confirms it. As soon as a beautiful woman plays a prominent role, people will say “Ooh isn’t she daring,” but they don’t bother saying that she acts well.
What role are you playing in the much anticipated Twin Peaks: The Return of David Lynch?
I can’t tell you anything at all, you’ll have to wait watch the series yourself. What I do in the show, well it’s a true moment of cinematic love. It’s quite dreamy … Obviously.
Voilà, and if I instantly accepted the role it was of course to be part of an experience led by David Lynch. My relationship with movies has always been like that: I can shoot with Rebecca Miller for five minutes, as much as I can film for four years with Emir Kusturica. I go from one extreme to the next.
I just took part in a project by Niccolò Ammaniti, an Italian writer and it took a day of work. What he asked me to do was so out there I just couldn’t refuse. The most interesting projects are like mosaics where each piece is equally important.
That’s how I perceive movie making.
How come the filming of On the Milky Road by Emir Kusturica took four years?
There are two reasons. On one hand we only shot during the summer, and on the other hand Emir very kindly let me do other parallel projects during the filming. I’ve always loved Kusturica’s films, I first discovered his work with The Time of Gypsies .
When I saw that movie I said to myself this is an absolute masterpiece that will mark the history of cinema forever. I’ve always respected Kusturica’s work immensely, and when he called me about shooting with him, I was over the moon. He explained the thread of the film over the phone, but it was only when I was sent a script much later on, I realised I was going to be playing a Serbian woman.
I was a bit worried about that at the beginning but I went for it head on and I think it’s been worth it. I didn’t understand everything in the film, but then I didn’t understand everything in Maxtrix Reloaded either. I’m probably just an idiot.
No I don’t think so. On the Milky Road is a very particular film that plays out against the Balkan war, an era that means a lot to Kusturica. But there is also a very poetic side to this love that unites this mature couple, like we rarely see on the big screen.
The two characters aren’t that young anymore, they’re expecting nothing from life, but in spite of that they rediscover love, sexuality and sensuality in the magical moments when they meet each other.
How has the film industry changed over the years you’ve been working in it?
Today it is all about TV series. That’s the big difference. Series have taken on an unbelievable importance.
I’ve even done an American TV show, Mozart in the Jungle , which was a very lovely experience for me as an actress, I was really able to express myself. When I did the dubbing in French and in Italian, the director said to me, “What a shame this isn’t for the cinema!” But for me that’s not really a subject.
When I see my daughter watching films on her mobile phone, I realise it really is another way of watching fiction. We’ve moved into another world.
What did you think about all that business with Netflix at the Cannes Film Festival?
What exactly was the problem?
Netflix was accused of not making cinema in the true sense of the word. But Cannes is above all a festival about communication, and refusing to select a film simply because it isn’t diffused in actual movie theatres strikes me as a little reductive. It’s like hiding from the major changes that are currently shaking up the film industry, like cutting yourself off from the world by sticking your head in the sand.
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Pretty as always
What has become of you my love. The warm evening calls for you to rest, to enjoy the evening breeze blowing across your body cooling it with it’s cool breath of life. Sipping the nectar of the gods refreshing yourself as you relish the evening watching the moon as you did long ago dreaming of your dreams which have come to pass except one. The one who touches your soul, your heart, your mind for you have dream of him since age 10 and still dream of him.