Monica Bellucci

Talented women in film a lot, beautiful - even more, but so and impeccable form, and deep content, and all this with a hint of tart Italian - only Monica Bellucci.

"I have never been afraid to look a real woman" - she says. Temptress, adventuress, devoted wife, and now a tender mother - Monica so many people that even hundreds of filmmakers can not afford to capture them all.

Ready. Child despite

Monica's face - dark girl with a steady gaze - has been attracting attention of others, as soon as she was born. In a small Italian town of Citta di Castello each life was in sight. Family Bellucci was no exception, especially since the reasons for gossip found plenty.

The fact that the mother Monica - Bellucci lady for a long time could not get pregnant. Doctors, after each new survey diagnosed infertility, but the husband and wife continued to hope for a miracle. However, according to neighbors, childless wife of a miracle did not deserve. She - zealous Catholic, in spite of all married to a stranger - an Iranian, a Muslim, besides more and the poor. Last diagnosed as claimed "well-wishers, was payback for marriage with foreigners, which in Citta di Castello feared and disliked.

Monica, born September 30, 1968 (according to IMDB.com, 1964 - Notes. ed.), was born perfectly healthy child - to the delight of parents, in spite of diagnosis and gossip.

Wonder baby did not differ calm disposition. Until then, until the neighborhood gossips did not see in the beautiful Monica, the main reason for the discussion remained challenging nature girl. Bellucci, as befits the daughter of real Italian mother, who selflessly helped with the household - cooking, washing, chalk, and scrapers, while shamelessly impudent vendor in the market and go unheeded admonitions Padre during Sunday Mass..

"I do not consider myself a Catholic, - admits much later Bellucci. - I do not like it when religion controls the people. I believe in the power of energy, I respect people who respect life, but when I die, everything will be over "

. Attention: the beauty in Italian

. "Your grandmother guilty with the devil" - I heard once in his address twelve Monica, after a long rolling up the neck without exception all men Citta di Castello, including schoolchildren and the elderly
. Worth girl go outside the house, the air around her began to crackle and simmer. "People can forgive you the talent and even mind, but not beauty," - says Monika fifteen years later, when the glory of the beautiful Italian-fly all the continents.

There is nothing surprising in the fact that Bellucci had resolved at the earliest opportunity to leave his native city. His departure to Perugia, she explained to parents the desire to go to university and learn to be a lawyer. "I wanted to learn how to lie" - then tell Monica.
Legend has it that by enrolling in university, Monica honestly tried to work as a waitress, not counting on financial support from parents. The work does not go well, because male customers came to the restaurant is not so much to eat, how much to stare at Bellucci, whose appeal even downright apron is not spoiled, but only emphasized.

After the men came to women, who staged public scenes of jealousy, and thus scare away visitors. After a series of scandals masters establishments Monica pointed at the door. So, soon in the city is no longer any places where the girl would dare to take on the job. "Peace is not motivated by love and not hatred and envy. Envy - the basis of human nature "- not to repeat Bellucci.

Perhaps a student of the Law Faculty is actually trying to work in restaurants. It is also possible that in the big city of Perugia luxurious body, full of temptations, caused popular unrest. However, Monica, still in school who studied at five, has always been that intelligence and could not think of that, it looks easier to go into the world of beauty, than assert himself among the dirty dishes.

Explosion N 1. Model unformat

The emergence of 21-year-old Italian at the threshold of the agency initiated its glamorous modeling career. Against the backdrop of fresh girls, exhausted diets and cosmetic procedures, Monica with his overflowing, according to Italian beauty generous draw for the agency new alluring prospects. Of course, with a career lawyer Bellucci had to say goodbye, what she had done without unnecessary regret, when in 1987, received an offer to move to Milan and to work with Elite.

Bellucci's success in the fashion world was truly stunning. At the beginning of her career, she became the face of the brand "D & G", posed for the famous Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani and Richard Avedon, who once shot Marilyn Monroe appeared on the covers of glossy magazines best.

"In her portraits, there is always something sharp and delicate at the same time" - talked about Centerfolds Bruce Weber. Guess what in more Monica - angel or devil, it was beyond the power of even the most venerable photographers.

Not wanting to linger long in the Role Model, she began acting classes and began to teach English and French. Already in 1990 the famous French film director Dino Risi, invited her in the film "Vita coi figli", where Bellucci played their first episode.

Blast N 2. Kinoestestvo

"The piano is a piano, a guitarist - guitar, but the actor is no other instrument, except his own body," - says Monica. Skip the girl with such a "tool" Francis Ford Coppola could not. Seeing Bellucci on the cover of fashion magazine, the director decided, no matter what was found for matchless Italian role in his new film. Casting did not take much time: Coppola made Monica a vampire brides in the movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula". Monica's first partner in a big movie was Gary Oldman.

In the frame Bellucci was natural, like an animal. Looking at the screen Monica, hardly anyone could suspect her of lying: after each role Bellucci turned to the audience as its new face. And each of them was perfectly.

After the 1992 "Dracula" fans have a real woman Bellucci noticeably been added. By simple men, who spend hours looking at photos to Monica in magazines, added men tough - director, producer, director of film studios, which could, and most importantly, wanted to see an Italian in his paintings. Despite the fact that Bellucci has not followed the path of many aspiring actress - and it did not take place behind closed doors casting suites, her name is gradually gaining momentum in kinotusovke.

Blast N 3. Fatal fascination

The French, famous special treatment to women, made out to Monica not only slaughter seksapil, but acting talent. Directed by Gilles Mimouni was the first who dared to give a central role Bellucci. In 1995, for the sake of filming the movie "Apartment" actress went to Paris.

However, the quivering attitude to Mimouni Monica was the exception rather than the rule confirmed. This French - with disheveled hair, . smug grin and a huge, . broken nose in several places - actor Vincent Cassel (son of famous actor Jean-Pierre Cassel), . which Bellucci to play in the "estate", . On the first day of shooting doused her a wave of contempt, . that was fit to collect belongings and flee from Paris,
. As will later recall Cassel, Monica seemed ordinary hussy, which is bent on conquering the world their beautiful breasts and shapely legs.

What exactly Bellucci "took" Cassel and what role was played by the divine feet, history is silent, but soon the pair became inseparable. As a nice bonus for personal happiness for her role in "The Apartment" Bellucci won "Cesar - the French equivalent of Oscar.

In the movie "Apartment" Monica played a fatal beauty, love of the hero's life Kassel. Virtually the same story repeated, and the actors in real life.

Looking at Kassel, overgrown with red beard almost to his eyes, which hugged the waist Bellucci - languid and seductive, to provide more strange pair was difficult. Initially, few believed that the magnificent woman Monica could choose a lover so unattractive man. The decision to get married, adopted by Vincent and Bellucci, five years after they met, had convinced everyone that the actors are linked by anything more than a mutual sympathy, and several successful joint projects, such as "Dobermann" and "Brotherhood of the Wolf".

However, it is difficult to assume that such a temperamental woman, like Monica could connect destiny with the man who was not perceived as his - the only and beloved - Men. "I'm Italian!" For me there is no poluvlyublennosti, poluotnosheny. Out of jealousy and I can kill ", - said Bellucci.

By the way, jealousy - the only thing not in the relations of the spouses. And if there is, then both carefully hide the dark side of family life from the paparazzi and fans. Despite the fact that Monica and Vincent are the most time away from each other due to inconsistencies in the shooting schedules, none of them had never ventured in an interview to talk about the difficulties they faced

. How much press would not poured oil on the fire, . disclosing alleged details of the sensational novels of Monica - then with Bruce Willis on the set of the film "Tears of the Sun", . then with Keanu Reeves in the Matrix, . then with Gerard Depardieu in "Asterix and Obelix", . husband and wife are silent,
. The maximum that allows itself Bellucci - is ironic over excessive "awareness" of journalists: "I do not know who comes up with similar stories. This is just ridiculous! I was in Hawaii and was featured in the film "Tears of the Sun", and someone asked: "So you're divorced?" In this situation, a divorce was very difficult, because by that time I had not seen her husband for two months! "

. Wave of rumors about the impending divorce of actors swept the media after the couple were photographed together in a provocative picture of Gaspar Noe "irreversibility"
. Many compare this film with "Eyes Wide Shut" by Stanley Kubrick, predicting that with Cassel Bellucci will repeat the fate of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman - too rude director exposed the private lives of actors.

The film actually received a revelation (the wife refused to help stand-ins in the bedroom scenes, which in the film turned out to be plenty) and a truly shocking. Why is only one episode where the heroine Monica brutally raped in the transition. For 11 minutes the viewer in the details and the details can be seen as the most fantastic woman in the world make a bloody piece of meat. No Bellucci double for duplicates (there have been six) and rehearsed in front of the camera a terrible episode, her husband ... relax and enjoy life.

By the way, it was Monica insisted that Vincent held the day away from the shooting area. "No, I wanted to be with her, but Monica forbade me to appear on the site - told Kassel. - So I was gone for a week with friends on vacation. I knew: my wife - a woman with eggs. She has the courage to play it! "However, the most Kassel did not have the courage to watch the scene until the end: during the premiere of a man sobbed, covering her face with his hands.

Blast N 5. A gift of the gods

Recipe for family life from Bellucci - Cassel simple. "In life, we give each other freedom, they themselves demand of others," - says Vincent. "Due to the fact that we are not seeing each other for a long time, we simply do not have time to quarrel!" - Smiles Monica. And to be completely happy acting couple had to have a baby - which they did in autumn 2004, despite the diagnosis (in the press have been rumors that the actress infertility). Girl to be born in one of the most prestigious hospitals in Rome, Bellucci called Virgin, which in Sanskrit means "god".

Of her pregnancy, Monica made no secret. Thus, naked photo, for which Bellucci posed a noticeable swelling belly, appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair. Such an eloquent way the actress expressed their protest the law banning artificial insemination in Italy.

By the way, has long left the modeling business, Monica has not ceased to be removed, but has become more selective. The actress turned down Playboy photo shoot at the cost of more than $ 3 million, but it appeared on the cover of Esquire, dressed only in ... caviar.
There are still remaining glamorous diva, whose face appears regularly on the covers of glossy magazines, in all that relates to the Virgin, Monica behaves like a real Italian mother - caring and gentle, but the overly fussy.

"My child is always with me wherever I went, - says the actress. - I resumed shooting, when my daughter was only three months, and I nursed her breast. We shot the scene, I was returning to his trailer, fed his daughter and returned to the set. So I was constantly with her, and she did not have the feeling that her mother left her for a long time. I do not want her daughter saw me as an actress. I'm her mother ".

Blast N 6. How much does it cost?

Slightly plump Monica looks even more feminine and seductive than ever. And let for many it remains an actress, . which is valued not primarily for acting talent, . and for the ability to remove her blouse, . this one episode is able to turn the film into a real masterpiece, . as happened with French ribbon Bertrand Blier "How are you?", . which was recently released in cinemas in Russia,
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"I love you" - says the protagonist of the film "How do you stand". "No wonder - meet Monica. - All men love me. I'm born to love and can not belong to one ".

Bellucci's heroine in this film - gorgeous prostitute Daniela, who attempted to return to normal life simple office clerk Francois - many associated with the most Bellucci. In the film, stands Francois encroach not only on the body but the per capita Danielle, as a woman there and then slipping away from him.

Looking at the couple Vincent and Monica, and many continue to think that their family idyll - a phantom, or as a temporary, albeit at a slightly drawn-out, the episode in the life of luxury Bellucci, which is too good to belong to one.

"I suddenly realized that my chest, stomach and my body have not changed since I was 18 years old, and this despite the fact that internally, I was quite different - says Bellucci. - I decided to get pregnant and give birth to a child. I confess that even ten years ago, I was not ready for this, because it was heavily concentrated on a. Now I am ready to give himself to those whom I love ".

"Men and women in need of constant competition with each other, even if hidden. I want a man that will always excite me and inspire, "- says the actress. Doubt that Cassel can keep your favorite, it is hardly worth. Monica's Beauty is more than enough for two, but otherwise the Frenchman has everything you need anyone, even the most fantastic woman - temperament, talent, love of experimentation and a remarkable dedication.

"A few years ago the question of what I would do for five minutes before the end of the world, I would have replied: parachuted. Now I'd rather make love to his wife, "- says Cassel. If you ever happen to a terrible and a couple still decides to leave, the only thing that we will - to stop believing in love.

. Filmography

. Dracula / Bram Stoker's Dracula / (1992)
. Snowball / Palla di Neve / (1994)
. Apartment / Appartement, l '/ (1996)
. How do you want me / Come mi voui / (1996)
. Doberman / Dobermann / (1997)
. Under suspicion / Under Suspicion / (2000)
. Malena / Malena / (2000)
. Brotherhood of the Wolf / Pacte des loups, Le / (2001)
. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra "/ Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre / (2002)
. Irreversibility / Irreversible / (2002)
. Tears of the Sun / Tears of the Sun / (2003)
. The Matrix: Reloaded / Matrix Reloaded, The / (2003)
. The Matrix: Revolution / Matrix Revolutions, The / (2003)
. Passion of the Christ / Passion of the Christ, The / (2004)
. Undercover agents / Agents secrets / (2004)
. She hates me / She Hate Me / (2004)
. Grimm Brothers / Brothers Grimm, The / (2005)
. How are you? / Combien tu m'aimes? / (2005)
. Shaitan / Sheitan / (2006)
. Brotherhood of stone / Concile de pierre, Le / (2006)
. Shoot 'Em Up / Shoot' Em Up / (2007)
. Repower / Deuxieme souffle, Le / (2007)
. Mad Blood / Sangue pazzo / (2008)
. A man who loves / Uomo che ama, L '/ (2008)









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