"Now they always offer me secondary roles, it's difficult to have leading roles for a 70-year-old woman, it's not that there aren't, but they are few. Then I tell my agent that I don't want to go 3-4 months in a hotel without seeing my family, the last time I was in Vancouver for 6 months for a series, Vancouver is a beautiful city, but six months, without being able to move, never again ".
It is strange to hear this from Isabella Rossellini, model, actress, director, documentary maker, writer, a woman who has traveled half the world, and is now, among other things, a proud 'peasant' on her farm 'Mama Farm', held of 15 hectares in Long Island, New York, dedicated to the recovery of traditional breeds and ancient seeds with a view to 'restorative agriculture'.
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In these days the muse of Martin Scorsese and David Lynch is divided between Milan and Bologna, and today in the city of the Two Towers he presented the version restored by the Cineteca di 'Francesco Giullare di Dio' (as part of the review the Cinema Ritrovato), directed by his father Roberto Rossellini in 1950. "It is a beautiful film, also because it is written by Fellini, so there is all the humor of Fellini and my father's ethical research. It is a very interesting collaboration between two Italian authors really important ". Perhaps it is that "curiosity" that her father and mother, Ingrid Bergman, taught her to move her. In fact, projects are not lacking in his life. "I love to travel, but now not so much anymore, it's tiring. Luckily I'm shooting a series in Boston for Hbo,just three hours from my home, and on the contract it says that if I don't work 3-4 days I can go home. It's a series about the American cook Julia Child, I play her French friend, Simca Beck, who taught her how to cook, we start shooting on August 10. "During the pandemic, her days began with an old movie, in the morning , and then many others, during the day. "In this year and a half I have seen many films, by Fellini, Visconti and many others, the same thing my friends did, then in the evening we commented on them on Zoom. Of course, in the cinema it is another thing. Covid, however, made many people think, in America it is all work, work, work, but many friends have rediscovered life in the family. Then the travels, many executives are always traveling, but some things can also be solved via Zoom.Sometimes they ask me to go to San Francisco for dinner one night, but it's heavy. "
His relationship with social media, however, is not the best.
"I'm not a great specialist, I'm at that age where computers are not well understood, we actors require Instagram, they explained to me that it's like a postcard, so I write messages like a postcard, like: 'I'm in Bologna, hello '. Now it's a bit like a discipline, like going to gymnastics, almost every day I post something because it has to do it. In America producers prefer actors who have many followers, I see modern actresses who have 20-30 million, I have 350 thousand, I'll never get there, maybe I have to undress naked to have them, but now I'm part of an ancient generation, as my father seemed to me from an ancient generation ".
And now, at nearly 70, the thing that bothers her most is waiting. "Now I'm more interested in writing and doing monologues, I enjoy it much more, it's not that I don't like acting, I don't like to wait and the actors are always waiting, for the lights to be ready, the scene to be ready, whole days inside the hotels , I don't like it anymore, in fact I work a lot less ".
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