The film "the Apartment" Gilles Mimouni watching the quarrel of their constituents, rather smiled: scenario heroine Monica was supposed to be for Kassel obsession. Still not getting in the frame, both actors coped with their roles perfectly.
The woman-child
Since childhood, she waited for her illness will pass. 14-year-old girl who grew up in the Italian village of città di Castello, could not understand why men look at her so intently and daring, and the neighbor screaming following: "Your grandmother had sinned with the devil! "
The only daughter of lady Bellucci, born in spite of a diagnosis of "infertility" grew obedient and attentive child: studied hard in school, went to Church, helped with the housework. On Sundays she went to the market for groceries and every time came back in tears: the women traders from the market followed her swear words, and the local men were released to address Bellucci crude jokes.
"Fallen women wear skirts above the knees and paint her lips red lipstick, " said the girl dad, the owner of a small transport company. "You look and behave like an angel. Why these tears, baby? People are envious and deceitful, it is not necessary to pay attention to them". Despite the fact that Monica used to trust their parents, to follow the advice of her father she could not: the older girl became, the more frustrating it sounded insulting neighbors who were harassing her beauty. To 17 years, brown-eyed girl, zaplutavshee dark hair in two tight braids, has turned into a real woman with finely embellished with the figure and the perfect face.
Signora Bellucci first realized that her daughter not to marry a good neighbor boy, give birth to seven children and spend the rest of days in città di Castello. The thought of their approaching separation burned the heart of this young woman, but the future Monica in his native village seemed to her worse.
At the next family Council it was decided that the daughter will go to study in Perugia. Jurisprudence has chosen itself Monica. "I want to be independent and to learn to lie," he said to her mother, going on the road.
Money sent from home, was not enough to pay for their education and apartments that Monica was shot a couple with his classmate, so Bellucci got a job in the near trattoria. Perugia compared to the provincial città di Castello seemed the girl huge metropolis.
Soon Monica was convinced that the mores of the big city was no different from those that prevailed in her native village. Bellucci was fired from three restaurants, despite the fact that she coped superbly with the duties of a waitress. Culprits layoffs were men who Monica was frantic. They come in a trattoria again and again, but behind them came their angry wives and girlfriends, which was made publicly jealousy.
At that moment, when Monica was ready to ask for help from parents, she suddenly remembered the man who once tried to meet her on the street.
Instead of the typical suggestions to have dinner with a stranger handed the girl a card and said "Call me if you decide to mind to use his looks. Next to the phone number to the name of the modeling Agency "Elite". Find a month later, this business card, Monica remembered unpaid bills for the apartment and decided to contact the agent. Call Bellucci was not for men by surprise: "Come to the casting. I will arrange to have you sent a ticket to Milan".
Woman-merchandise
For the first time, she felt that her beauty can not only bring trouble and money. After the first photo shoot in the "Elite" the girl was given the title of "discovery", and after a month Bellucci has become a "brand face" brand "Dolce & Gabbana" and Muse of the great photographer Richard Avedon. "If you want to shoot beautiful Breasts and delicious ass, you need Monica," said the agent, praising figure Bellucci as high quality goods.
The girl, from childhood accustomed to the increased attention to your body, this treatment did not bother. However, as stating that "it is too thick: receiving over 3000 dollars per day, Monica least thought about how to pace yourself diets.
Attempts to combine study at the faculty of law and the work on the catwalk stretched for three years. During this time career Monica sharply went up the hill; fashion shows in Milan, Paris and new York, shooting for exclusive calendar "Pirelli" (to get to his page, especially twice, for the model - that is, to receive the Nobel prize), "Christian Dior" and "Elisabeth Arden".
And not having a law degree, Bellucci has become one of the most famous models. She wore skirts above the knees and lipstick red lipstick, but no one believed her a fallen woman. Want to "sin" with a beautiful Italian woman was still a lot, but Monica has chosen actor Nicolas Faron, a novel which lasted 6 years.
The woman is a miracle
At Monica was all the crowd of admirers, a solid Bank account, closet from "Dolce & Gabbana", millions of contracts for advertising clothes and cosmetics. In order to get it all, Bellucci did not do anything special: just froze for a moment in front of the camera and waited for the next miracle. And the magic happened - every new snapshot Monica evoked in the audience admiring awe.
When the famous Comedy writer Dino Risi was offered the girl a small role on "Cinecittà" Roman "star factory", Bellucci, without hesitation, said Yes. The shooting took place successfully, Monica was delighted with the TV - nice people, interesting work, a lot of prospects. It remains only to wait for the broadcast.
The first few seconds of the transmission threw the girl in shock. Monica looked at the screen and could not believe that wooden doll, not knowing what to do with their long arms and legs, is she. "How so?! - cried the model. "I did everything correctly. Came out, smiled..." a Miracle happened: the perfect woman Bellucci looked incredibly shy and awkward.
Lesson Monica TV, went in her favor: she enrolled in acting classes, began to study English and French. "It is foolish to rely only on beauty. She's too cunning and short-lived," he decided Bellucci.
Directors, in contrast, relied on the appearance Bellucci. So, in 1992, the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Coppola saw the girl on the cover of a glossy magazine and was so fascinated by the Italian beauty that he convinced his uncle to call Monica on the role of a vampire in the film "Dracula".
The first partner in the shooting Bellucci has become the actor Keanu Reeves, who at the sight of Monica lost literally gave a speech. At the end of the shooting day, Francis asked the girl how she feels in the role of actress. "If all the actors are so cute and shy people, " said Monica, Flirty embracing Keanu, " why shouldn't I be among them? "
Woman-mining
In Hollywood Bellucci noticed, but the phone aspiring actress remained silent because of the strong accent Directors feared to trust the Italian major role. When, in 1995, Monica invited into the picture Gilles, Mimouni "Apartment", she, without hesitation, went to Paris with the firm intention to charm one and all. First on the list was listed actor Vincent Kassel, which the script was fatally in love with the heroine Monica.
In reality, Vincent felt for Bellucci opposite feelings. Pronounced sensuality Monica awoke in him the desire, and aggression. Cold eyes, perpetually disheveled hair, broken in several places the nose (as a young boy he worked in the circus), aristocratic arrogance (Vincent was the son of the great French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, partner Brigitte Bardot) and caustic humor - Kassel and outwardly, and the behavior was similar to the wolf, ready at any moment to pounce on his prey. Beside him, she really felt like a victim, forced to apologize for something that didn't require excuses - for example for their beauty.
"Do you think that appearance is everything. With your lips and Breasts, you can not work on the set, and just stand there and smile. Why you may think yourself a great actress? " - attacked the girl Kassel in between takes. "If you're a pianist, you must be piano. If the guitarist is playing the guitar. Well, if you're an actor, your instrument is your body. Face, arms, hands and eyes are my working tools," calmly replied Monica, trying to let go of the memory of the episode of her life, when she really thought that she just go to the site and to smile. The degree of anguish with which the pair played in the frame, and the passions raging outside the shooting area, has led to the fact that after finishing work on "the Apartment" Vincent and Monica realized that they are unable to disperse to different cities.
Female-pain
For the next 7 years, the pair has achieved much: to get married, to get a apartment in Paris near Boulevard Saint-Germain (the idea belonged to Bellucci), to act together in the films "the Doberman" and "brotherhood of the wolf" and become one of the most discussed cineama.
The movie "Malena" directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, who had previously shot the actress for commercials "Dolce & Gabbana", made Bellucci famous and Vinsan forced to think. What would his beautiful wife with the unhappy woman Malena, which envious stone and shave bald? Next time this thought surfaced in my memory of Kassel, when his wife was preparing for the role in the film "Irreversible".
"The rapist says to his victim: "do You think, once you're beautiful, so all you can? " How exactly caught the moment! Because someone perceives beauty as an insult. Gaspar is a genius! "Monika was obsessed with the idea of filming the "Irreversibility" of the Director Gaspar Noe.
After reading 15 pages of the script for the film, Vincent was horrified enough that the film Bellucci pregnant will rape in the underpass, Gaspar insisted that Cassel played her husband.
It all began with the fact that one Director suggested that Vinsanto to play together with his wife in his new pornographic film. The actor refused, resulting Monica, long wanted to work with Noe really offended at her husband. Without thinking, Gaspar wrote the script of "Irreversibility", which brought the spouses. When the Director asked Bellucci, how far she is ready to go, the actress replied that he would go to the end.
The scene of violence in which the heroine Monica brutally raped, and then smashed her head on the pavement, was filmed close up and lasted on the film 12 minutes. The actress had to work six doubles. Nerves Monica were inflated to the limit: in the morning she could not find a place, in a whisper communicated with Gaspard and openly ignored the rest. Vincente asked to be removed from the set, because Bellucci was not sure that her husband will survive everything. Will she, Monica didn't know...
Only when the scene was shot, the actress realized, what it is worth it. Physical fatigue did not go to any comparison with psychological stress: it seemed that this episode Gaspar assembled in the most nightmarish dreams Monica.
At the premiere of "Irreversibility" during the demonstration stage in the underpass Monica closed her eyes, unable to endure this pain again, and Kassel watched and wept.
Woman-destiny
The couple regularly initiated conversations about children, but each time came to the conclusion that it is not time yet. They both were at the peak of his career, and the child could materially interfere with the plans.
The film "Irreversible" began with the phrase "Time destroys everything" and talked about the people who did not appreciate the allocated days and eventually lost everything. It so happened that Gaspar reminded Monica and Vinsanto about one very important truth: every Sunny morning to evening to turn into a tragedy.
Suddenly, the couple realized that they had as soon as possible to have a baby. Bellucci secret from her husband was given a medical examination and received a disappointing verdict: the opportunity to become a mother at a minimum. "Especially at your age... " added the doctor, looking at the 35-year-old Monica, draped in black satin Trouser suit. - Work on and weigh in the movie, but the child does not think. If you are destined to give birth, then you get pregnant without the help of doctors. Fate will not argue".
Not so much on the advice of a doctor, how many of habit Bellucci continued to work: the "Irreversibility" followed by a picture of "tears of the sun", "the Matrix" and "the passion of the Christ", where the actress got the role of Mary Magdalene.
The work took the Bellucci a lot of time, Vincent also, however, had been removed, so the couple saw each other rarely and communicated mostly by phone.
Drawing an analogy between the "eyes wide shut" where she played a married couple Kidman, Cruz, and "Irreversibility" with Bellucci - Kassel (both films were investigated intimate party for family life), the media actively discussed the news of the divorce Monica and Vinsanto.
The actor regularly read in the newspaper gossip about the novels of his wife with Bruce Willis (partner, actress on "Tears of the sun") and Keanu Reeves (the Matrix), but these publications are not caused in Vincente no anxiety, no jealousy. "I know that most men on earth dream is to be in the arms of Monica. But I neither hot, nor cold," said Kassel.
While his voice was calm, because the only important thing the man knew for sure - wherever his wife, before going to sleep he would hear her sweet voice.
In the winter of 2004 Bellucci learned that she was pregnant. Journalists congratulated the couple on reunion, but traditionally have not received a reply comment.
Being seven months pregnant, Monica repeated bold move demi Moore and appeared Nude for the cover of the magazine "Vanity Fair". Press exulted, and the Vatican, on the contrary, struck the woman with fierce criticism: according to the Church, this behavior was unworthy of the actress that played the role of Mary Magdalene.
"I just want to give women freedom, " said Bellucci. - To be an actress means to show their femininity". In the fall of 2004, a 39-year-old Monica gave birth to a daughter, which the couple named Virgin.
Woman-Queen
When directed by Terry Gilliam, working on the painting "the Brothers Grimm", suggested Bellucci role of the beauty-Queen who tries to regain his youth by magic, the actress laughed: "I do not mean to say that I am the Queen, whose best years are long behind? "
"I believe that thou art the woman is a chameleon that can change your appearance without resorting to witchcraft, " said Terry. "You were a sex-bomb, and Martyr, and Saint, but never played Sladek. Do you interested to try out new roles? "
Perhaps it was the only argument that could convince Monica to return to work. Three-month-old virgin was accompanied by her mother on the set, and Bellucci in between takes left the set, to feed the child with breast milk.
At the premiere of film "the Brothers Grimm", which was shown at the film festival in Venice, Monica came without her husband, but with 11-month-old Virgin on his hands. "Despite the fact that it's a fairy tale, the film is very instructive, " said the actress, cradling the baby. - Many people believe that their way is their identity. With age, a man collapses to the Foundation: losing the mask, he loses himself".
"What kind of screen the way you like more than others - Malena, Cleopatra, Queen? What kind of film you'll want to review? "he tortured actress journalists.
"When I shall grow old, you'd better watch on their children, than to review the films with his participation, coldly replied Monica. - If you'd asked me this question 10 years ago, you probably would have got from me a completely different answer. As said a good friend of mine: "Time destroys everything. All that has no true value".
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