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GALLERY17 photosInteresting Facts About Monica Bellucci
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress and model. She is often considered among the most beautiful women in the world. Here the list of everything you need to know about Monica Bellucci...
GALLERY28 photosMonica Bellucci Exclusive Secrets
Discover the secrets of Monica Bellucci who once confessed she has become more beautiful with age. The Italian star, who began her career as a 13-year-old model, has remained an evergreen presence on the international cinematic landscape. From starring in independent dramas to huge blockbusters, Bellucci is at ease playing a variety of characters. She has been a regular fixture on the covers of fashion magazines and at international film festivals. While pregnant with both her children, she posed semi-nude on the cover of Vanity Fair and has appeared on several ‘sexiest of the year’ lists. UNIQ presents exclusive interview with Monica Bellucci. Discover the secrets of world’s most beautiful woman…
NEWSMonica Bellucci exclusive campaign
'Co-ageing': such is the new Nivea philosophy. The Beiersdorf-owned skincare brand, which claims to assist women in accepting the signs of ageing, has closeted the term 'anti-ageing', "because ageing isn't a taboo," as outlined by Morgane Jouot, marketing director of the brand's France-Benelux region. Wise, beautiful and at peace, in the middle of the journey of her life, Monica Bellucci, 53, has chosen a white snow suit to make her debut as a testimonial for the face skincare of Nivea, a cosmetic brand that takes its name from the Latin word of snow , "Nix, nivis". The announcement was made on May 9 at the Palazzo Reale in Milan (location given to the brand that in return will sponsor the program of summer exhibitions): the world icon actress of beauty and femininity, mother of Deva and Leonie (from the former husband Vincent Cassel), is the face of the new anti-age line Nivea Hyaluron Cellular Filler. And to represent this new philosophy, Nivea has tapped actress Monica Belluci, who, from May 21, will be the face of the Hyaluron Cellular Filler skincare line in a 30-second advertising campaign, produced by director Bruno Aveillan. The campaign will air in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. "We have to accept the passing of time: in a world where we are all scared to age, that fact of saying we can continue to love and be loved, even if we have a more organic beauty, I find that a beautiful image," explains the actress, whose signature is also inscribed on the packaging of the skincare line, which is aimed at women fifty years old and over.
MOVIESSpider in the Web
Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley (“Gandhi,” “Schindler’s List”) and Monica Bellucci (“Spectre”) will co-star in “Spider in the Web,” a counterespionage thriller helmed by Eran Riklis (“Lemon Tree”). Film Constellation has pre-sold Ben Kingsley and Monica Bellucci espionage thriller “Spider in the Web” in territories including Germany and China, as the stars are seen together in an exclusive first-look image from the movie. Production has just wrapped on the film, which is helmed by Eran Riklis and was shot in Belgium and the Netherlands. Concorde has picked it up for Austria and Germany, and Lemon Tree Media for China. Tanweer has prebought it for Greece and Cyprus. A studio deal is thought to be in the cards in another major territory. Set in modern-day Europe and inspired by true events, the story follows a once-lauded but aging secret agent, Adereth (Kingsley), whose bosses want to put him out to grass. He embarks on a covert mission that involves finding the enigmatic Angela (Bellucci), while also being tracked by a rival agent played by Itay Tiran (“Lebanon”). Who is hunting whom becomes the question. The film is produced by United King Films’ Moshe Edery and Leon Edery, Michael Sharfshtein of Topia Communications, Eran Riklis, Jacqueline de Goeij for Ciné Cri de Coeur (Belgium), Sabine Brian and Ronald Versteeg for NL Films (Holland), and Eyal Edery for Dragocom (Portugal). Executive producers are Ira Riklis, Dana Lustig and Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff. The screenplay was written by Gidon Maron and Emmanuel Nakkache. Film Constellation co-financed and is handling worldwide sales. It launched it internationally in Berlin.
NEWSOn the set of 'Perlage'
On the set of 'Perlage' TV commercial on September 14, 2012 in Portofino, Italy.
NEWSOn The Bed
In this photo Monica Bellucci on the photoshoot for the Paris Match Magazine.
NEWSLe 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.
NEWSCesar Revelations 2018
Monica Bellucci attends the 'Cesar Revelations 2018' Party at Le Petit Palais on January 15, 2018
NEWSJune, 1998
On the set of "Comme un poisson hors de l'eau", June, 1998
NEWSAt home in Rome
Italian actress and model Monica Bellucci at home in Rome, 6th June 1991.
NEWSMonica Bellucci, 1993
Italian model and actress Monica Bellucci presents a new creation by Guy Laroche on January 22, 1993 in a preview of the Spring/summer 1993 high-fashion collections in Paris.
NEWSHonored 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.”
MOVIESMonica Bellucci Should Return To The 'James Bond'
According to The List, Daniel Craig has expressed a desire for Monica Bellucci to reprise her role as Lucia Sciarra, for his upcoming and final appearance as James Bond. This is unprecedented, for several reasons. Giving any former lover, especially one over the age of 25, even a second glance would be shockingly out of character for the aging rapscallion. Not to mention, Bellucci is 53 years old, and despite being almost supernaturally attractive, she is the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise, by a wide margin. In fact, she’s (gasp) even older than Craig himself. Whether the rumor is true or not, it’s an interesting idea that the producers should seriously consider. I’m pretty sure James Bond would find a woman his age terribly intimidating, but perhaps Craig understands that the character needs a new challenge. The world is changing, and Bond is an elderly character, with old-fashioned values. The recent films have even started acknowledging that Bond’s fast-paced lifestyle, steadied by a diet of hard liquor and casual sex, is something to be pitied rather than aspired to. The character’s life remains an escapist fantasy, but the polish has worn away, revealing a sad, lonely alcoholic. The face of Hollywood is changing too. Especially the ogrish face of Harvey Weinstein, whose totally secret (cough) and incredibly surprising (cough) assaults on women seem to have sparked a wave of sexual assault survivors to come forward and share their stories. Suddenly, every celebrity in Hollywood is “shocked and saddened” by the allegations against the sleazy producer who has been openly mocked for his predatory behavior for decades. Seems like it’s not okay to be a creep in the entertainment industry anymore. And as part of the attempt to scrub the filth off the glossy veneer of Hollywood, James Bond needs to clean up his act too. Because the image of a wealthy, powerful, middle-aged man constantly chasing vulnerable twenty-year-olds is starting to look a bit creepy. As one of the oldest and most consistent faces of cinema, it’s important that James Bond reflects the supposed values of the industry that spawned him. He’s always going to be the archetypical action man, but that doesn’t mean he has to maintain his misogynistic streak. Bringing Belucci back and expanding her role might lay the groundwork to transform the ultra-disposable Bond girl into a woman, with a more substantial part to play in Bond’s future adventures. Not to mention, it’s Craig’s last time in the tuxedo. No really, it’s the last time. If he’s forced to do another one, he really will slash his wrists. We all know the character will be modernized and rebooted with a fresh-faced actor the moment Daniel Craig leaves. Craig is undoubtedly thinking of the legacy he leaves behind him, which will soon be the longest-serving Bond in history, overtaking Roger Moore at 13 years. So it makes sense to not only go out with a bang, but with dignity. Craig’s story has touched on the “aging agent adrift in the modern world” theme several times; finally pairing with someone that shares his life experience and cynical outlook might be the happy ending his grizzled Bond deserves.
VIDEOMalena | 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, Giuseppe Sulfaro
ARCHIVEChanel 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.