(ANSA) - ROME, 06 NOV - "I had the first daughter at 39, the second at 44, at 50 I became a Bond girl, at 55 I made my debut at the theater. I have my timing! The beauty is to be called, without climbing which is not in my nature, the important thing is to always have projects to join with enthusiasm. How could I say no to this about MariaCallas? Even if it meant facing laplatea live for the first time ": Monica Bellucci talks about herself and also talks about the show with directed by Tom Volf which after its debut at the Spoleto festival resumed after the lockdown with great success throughout Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, Athens and then London and which is now also arriving in Italy in Milan (Teatro Mananzoni, 21 November), Rome (Sala Sinopoli, 22 and 23 November) and Venice (Goldoni Theater, 26 and 27 November).
"An icon like Callas was not enough, as chance would have it that I also cross paths with another incredible woman, Anita Ekberg", continues Bellucci who will present the film The girl in the fountain, directed by Antongiulio Panizzi in Turin on November 30th at the Tff world premiere. , in which he confronts the Swedish actress. "Two legends, two women who had everything, yet difficult destinies marked by suffering".
Bellucci, who will also receive the Stella dellaMole 2021 award in Turin, will be in the hall in December with the comedy by Paola Randi, La Befana vien di notte 2, in which she plays the witch. And then international films such as Memory, action thriller with Liam Neeson, and the filming of the American comedy MamaMafia with Toni Collette directed by the director of Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke, and a top secret project of a TV series.
"A lot of work, I'm happy, then of course there is to be organized and this always upsets me a bit, as happens to everyone else in reconciling family and work, I have my girls to follow".
At 57, she doesn't like to look back: "Everyone's path is based on the yes and no they have said, on successes and failures".
I am moved by the enthusiasm, by the curiosity, by the excitement of a new project, to always learn and unfounded to play. "And the time that passes?" I have accepted it for quite a while ". (ANSA).
