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By Greg Hernandez on Dec 9, 2010 12:01 am | Comments (0) |
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, Isabella Rossellini, one of the world’s most beautiful women, turns up on the Sundance Channel swimming in a construction paper sea beside two male dolphin puppets engaging in blowhole sex.
Now, the model, actress, scribe, and expert on the sex lives of animals chats with OUT about unusual mating habits, her thoughts on sexuality as she’s gotten older, and what she really thinks of Madonna’s Sex book.
Here are some highlights:
Thoughts on sexuality as she gets older:
“I stare at it differently now because I was born in Italy, a Catholic country, where I grew up thinking you should be a virgin at marriage. And now if somebody says, “I’m a virgin and I’m getting married,” I would be a petty worried. Maybe she hasn’t had enough experience, like, oh my God, how can she even say that word? How much you can change. I was born in a country where gays were looked as something that had to be re-educated. Maybe they weren’
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Isabella Rossellini talks Joy, queenly and discovering Death Becomes Her is a ‘gay film’
By Chris Azzopardi | Photos by Denis Makarenko & Twentieth Century Fox
Isabella Rossellini is leading me into the light. There, in front of an almost full-wall window in a hotel suite at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York City, we rise, beaming, as her assistant snaps a pic. Good lighting is everything, as Rossellini notes in her thick Swedish-Italian accent – otherwise, “it’ll get all black.”
She should know. Rossellini embarked on a career in front of the camera when, at the age of 28, the classic Rome-born beauty fell into modeling, hawking Lancôme as the company’s spokeswoman for 14 years and posing for an array of eminent celeb photographers, including Annie Leibovitz and Robert Mapplethorpe.
“When I worked with him, he was quite sick with AIDS,” Rossellini recalls. “I remember how downcast I felt, because he was very handsome and he famous in his photos the male body, the human body, and to see him paying such a toll, not even just physically. But he seemed to be in good spirits. I wondered… of course he knew he was dying. It was a very difficult
Isabella Rossellini: Madonna’s Sex Book “bothered the hell out of me”
Out: I’d be a failure as a gay male if I didn’t ask you about Madonna’s Sex novel. It’s been almost 20 years since you were shot for it — looking back, what do you believe of the publication now?
Isabella Rossellini: I was working a lot with the photographer Steven Meisel. I didn’t recognize Madonna and Madonna had approached Steven to do a book about sex. And of course, sex is very interesting. Even me, when I’m making my own brief films, I talk to how animals hold sex. It’s very interesting, sex. And Steven was tempted — instead of doing a novel about all his photos he did for Vogue and all the past photos as a résumé of his life — to do something challenging. So I consideration he had a point. Sex is interesting. But I don’t think the book worked, even though the photos were extraordinary and some of them quite memorable. I think there was a little bit of a moralistic sort of “I’ll teach you how to be free!” and that bothered the hell out of me. Because I think if you want to practice abstinence and that makes you happy, you are OK. If you want to be gay, that’s OK.
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Although her father was director Roberto Rossellini and her mother was actress Ingrid Bergman, Isabella Rossellini had little craving to work in the film industry when she arrived in New York City at 19 years old. She was sure that fashion was her calling—and by her slow 20s, a few years after studying costume blueprint at Manhattan’s Finch College, she was appearing as a model in magazines such as Vogue and Interview. Not extended after, Rossellini decided to join the family business: she was cast in her first American clip in the early 1980s, before starring in David Lynch’s haunting 1986 thriller, "Blue Velvet." Over the last few decades, Rossellini has only further demonstrated the breadth of her talent, working as a producer and director while still modeling and acting, most recently in the papal drama "Conclave," in which she co-stars alongside Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow. On this week’s episode of "Table for Two," the actress joins host Bruce Bozzi to discuss her affair to her parents’ operate, how her style has changed with age, and why she went advocate to school in her mid-50s.
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