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On the set of 'Perlage'Noticias

On the set of 'Perlage'

On the set of 'Perlage' TV commercial on September 14, 2012 in Portofino, Italy.

Mozart in the JungleNoticias2 fotos

Mozart in the Jungle

"Mozart in the Jungle" opens, Maestro Thomas takes his final bow with the New York Symphony. Applause dies down, and the orchestra's chairwoman introduces a new conductor -- young, flamboyant, talented Rodrigo, who strides onto the stage, bows and turns his baton into a rose! Conflict begins for the badly behaved genius and his stodgy predecessor, now music director emeritus. Rodrigo promises change when he icily reviews Thomas' last concert, and it starts with auditions that alter life for a female oboist scrambling for gigs.

Monica Bellucci, 1993Noticias2 fotos

Monica Bellucci, 1993

Monica Bellucci in a photoshoot for Blumarine photographed by Helmut Newton, 1993

Le Deuxieme SouffleNoticias

Le Deuxieme Souffle

Monica Bellucci walks the red carpet at the "2nd Rome Film Festival - Le Deuxieme Souffle / Anna Magnani, La Lupa Romana" in Rome, Italy.

Cesar Revelations 2018Noticias

Cesar Revelations 2018

Monica Bellucci attends the 'Cesar Revelations 2018' Party at Le Petit Palais on January 15, 2018

June, 1998Archivo

June, 1998

On the set of "Comme un poisson hors de l'eau", June, 1998

GQ Men Of The Year Awards, 2003Noticias2 fotos

GQ Men Of The Year Awards, 2003

GQ Men Of The Year Awards, 2003

At home in RomeGalería3 fotos

At home in Rome

Italian actress and model Monica Bellucci photographed at home in Rome on June 6, 1991.

Vogue Italia, 1994Noticias2 fotos

Vogue Italia, 1994

Monica Bellucci by Walter Chi, Vogue Italia Ottobre 1994

GQ, Italia, August 2015Galería6 fotos

GQ, Italia, August 2015

GQ Italia dedicated the cover of its August 2015 issue to the gorgeous Monica Bellucci. Monica Bellucci by Bettina Rheims for GQ, Italia, August 2015

All you need to know about Monica Bellucci movie “On The Milky Road”Entrevistas2 fotos

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.

Monica Bellucci finding herself in her 50sEntrevistas5 fotos

Monica Bellucci finding herself in her 50s

Most actors nowadays only give interviews if they have a new project to sell. But Monica Bellucci is not your average actor. Like Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Silvana Mangano, she has Italian film-star glamour — dark hair, voluptuous, a sensuous beauty. Unlike the post-war icons, however, Bellucci has been in regular work beyond her 40s. At 51 she made headlines as the ‘oldest Bond girl ever’ for her role as Lucia Sciarra, widow of a notorious assassin, in Spectre.

Honored in Rome with the Virni Lisi AwardNoticias

Honored in Rome with the Virni Lisi Award

Monica Bellucci flew into Rome for one night to receive the Fondazione Cinema per Roma’s Virna Lisi Award, which honors an actress who has made an impact in Italian and global cinema. Bellucci sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to speak about her career thus far, why the age conversation around her role as a Bond girl in Spectre was so important and why she thinks it’s so important now for women to come forward about harassment and assault. On accepting the award, Bellucci said, “It means a lot because Virna Lisi is an actress that I respect very much. She is an Italian international icon. For me, she represents an aspiration, for her talent of course, her intelligence, her beauty and her elegance. So I’m really honored and moved that I’m receiving this prize.” Bellucci’s career in many ways mirrors that of Lisi’s. As Italian actresses who achieved global fame, they worked to avoid being typecast as bombshells by seeking out complex roles. Bellucci is next scheduled to fly to Australia to film Nekromancer from brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner. “I’m playing a mean, mean, mean, horrible woman for the first time,” she said of the role, laughing. “I’m always very surprised to see how directors from so far away think about you for a role.” And next year she’ll head to the U.S. to promote the release of Emir Kusturica’s On the Milky Road, a film that required her to learn Serbian. Bellucci has also been making waves with American TV, from a role as an opera singer in Mozart In the Jungle to a cameo in Twin Peaks: The Return. And while her entry into the mind of Gordon Cole was just for one scene, she said it was a significant role for her. “With David Lynch, everything becomes magic. It is just a moment out of nowhere, talking about dreams." “I think that for me maybe it was important to do that because I think I am my dream. I was a little girl, dreaming about cinema, and I wanted to be an actress and this is what I do for a living. So of course I was ready to talk about dreams.” Bellucci, these days, is more focused on raising her two daughters than on her career, and limits her acting to one film per year, one that she says she chooses on instinct. And while she still wants to produce some day, she says she has no desire to direct. On whether she wants to return to the Bond universe and the role that made her an icon for actresses over 50, she said simply, “I can’t say anything about that.” She added: "Being in Bond was an amazing experience and I loved working with Daniel Craig. He was an amazing partner, so respectful.” She also believes that the conversation around Spectre, of a woman over 50 playing a Bond girl, was a huge step forward for women in the industry. “Today women can have great roles, strong roles, feminine roles after 50, 60, 70, even 80. So cinema is finally representing society,” she said. “It means that things are really changing.” Bellucci, who has worked since she was a teenager, first as a model and then as an actress, had much to say about the current wave of women speaking out in Hollywood against sexual assault and harassment. “I can say I am so happy that I have two kids, two girls, and they are born in this period of time,” she said. “It’s important that women now come out and have the courage to talk and to say things that surpass the fear, because our fear is something that is in our DNA.” She added that she hates how Harvey Weinstein’s accusers have been victim-shamed and criticized for not speaking out sooner. “People are asking, 'why didn’t these women come out before? Why didn’t they say something right away?' When a bird is in a cage for a long time, even when you open the cage, it doesn’t go out,” she says. “And so to come out from that is something that has to change inside. It takes so much time to come out and have the courage to talk." On whether she has experienced harassment over the course of her career, she replies, “Of course. I don’t think there is one woman in the world who hasn’t experienced this to some degree. So I think when you are a woman, you know from a very young age how to deal with those attitudes. In some cases, you think that it is almost normal because it happens so often. But it’s not normal. What we have to teach our children is that it’s not normal.” “As a mother we have to teach our kids how to see these situations before they can happen and how to face them. And don’t feel as if you are guilty of something,” she said. “When we were kids, sometimes they didn’t explain enough to us that it is not our fault. Because they teach us how to dress or how to behave in order not to provoke. But we have to explain to men that they can’t act like that,” she continued. “It’s not on women that we have to cover ourselves, or we have to avoid creating a situation that can provoke men. The men have to learn how to stay in their place.” Bellucci has worked on several Miramax films over the years including The Brothers Grimm and Malena. On her specific experience with Harvey Weinstein, she said, “I didn’t have to deal with those kinds of situations because I knew already how to handle them. Because when you are a pretty woman and you are in a type of work where your image is part of the work, of course you learn how to deal with situations.” “I spoke once with a very famous psychologist and he told me that sometimes with powerful men, it’s as if there are two personalities in one person. So one part is absolutely normal, even more than normal, even brilliant. And the other part is not normal, it’s like an animal,” she said. “So when you meet those kinds of people you have to try to deal with the normal part. Because I think sometimes when men are in power they think that everything is possible and there are no limits to their behaviors.” Bellucci said she feels that there has been significant change even already. “I think things are really changing in just a few months. Because as a woman, I don’t know about you, but as a woman when I go around I feel already that the attitude is changing,” she said. “Maybe the attitude is more ... aware. Things are changing already. When I go to the airport, when I go to restaurants, I start to feel something, more respect … people are more gentle.” “The attitude now is like, ‘We have to be careful.’ I can feel that it’s getting better,” she said, acknowledging also that it may be too soon to tell if there will be real change within the industry. “But then, of course, we have to see what is real, what is not real. We have to see everything.”

Malena | Official VideosVídeos

Malena | Official Videos

Malena is the utterly unforgettable story of a boy's journey into manhood amid the chaos and intolerance of World War II. In a sleepy Italian village, Malena (Monica Bellucci), the most beautiful woman in town, becomes the subject of increasingly malicious gossip among the lustful townsmen and their jealous wives. But only her most ardent admirer, young Renato Amoroso (Giuseppe Sulfaro), will learn her mysterious untold story. Starring: Monica Bellucci, Luciano Federico, Pietro Notarianni, Matilde Piana and Giuseppe Sulfaro.

Chanel Fashion Show in ParisArchivo

Chanel Fashion Show in Paris

Monica Bellucci at Chanel Fashion Show in Paris, Chanel created a waterfall for its spring/summer 2018 collection, making raincoats and wellington boots chic again. Spotted in the front row were Chanel’s celebrity patrons, such as K-pop idol G-dragon, Chinese model Liu Wen and actresses Monica Bellucci, Clémence Poésy and Cindy Crawford.