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.
Bond meets Lucia at her husband’s funeral, where she is dressed in 5in heels and a black veil. Their romance is brief but, after all of 007’s trademark conquests of young things in bachelor pads, when the film came out in 2015 it was cause for celebration (except in India, where a kiss between Daniel Craig and Bellucci was deemed too long by the Central Board of Film Certification and duly shortened by half). We meet in her extremely large and beautiful house in Paris’s 14th arrondissement, where she lives with her two daughters, Deva, 13, and Léonie, seven.
A housekeeper invites me into a magnificent sitting room with a high ceiling, large windows and a sumptuous sofa. I hear the sound of other staff in the kitchen. ‘Of course I have people to help me,’ Bellucci says, after she whirls in, chatting 19 to the dozen.
She reminds me that she is now a single mother, since the break-up of her 14-year marriage to Vincent Cassel in 2013. She says she’s had to become ‘more structured, more grounded’ since their divorce. ‘I was just emotion before.
This is a new part of me I am discovering now in my 50s.’
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