Monica Bellucci on the cover of Madame Figaro

“La Bellissima”, as it is called, is 56 years old. Gloria Swanson was only 50 when she made her comeback in Dusk Boulevard, by Billy Wilder. The American played there an old glory of silent cinema fallen into oblivion. Another era. La Bellucci, she passed the milestone of fifty by embodying, among other things, a James Bond Girl (the sexy and tragic widow of Spectre ) and by posing, magnificently sensual, on the cover of Lui . Italian glamour, French chic: she is also the ambassador of the Cartier housesince many years. When her longevity in the cinema is pointed out to her, an environment that is not always tender with those over 30, she simply replies: “When I started, at 25, I would never have imagined that I would still be on film sets. 50. But the women of my generation had access to a social life and opportunities that our mothers and grandmothers were denied. I think we really have to thank all those who fought for us, before us, so that we can vote, have rights, work, free our speech… And then today, we live so much longer…”