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The Italian actress Monica Bellucci was this Friday, October 21 in Lyon for the Lumière Festival. She presented the film ‘The Girl in the Fountain’, where she plays the main role. She looks back on the evolution of standards in the film industry.
“When I arrived, at the beginning I felt this a priori very linked to the physical, because I came from a world that was not the world of cinema. But today, all that has completely changed.” Monica Bellucci was in Lyon for her invitation to the 14th edition of the Lumière Festival, which took place from October 15 to 23. She presented the film The Girl in the Fountain, where she plays Anita Ekberg, a famous Swedish model. Brut met her on this occasion.
The actress appreciates the changes in the demands of the film industry, especially in beauty standards. “I think we are in a moment of transformation which is very positive for that, in the sense that I see that we can continue careers that are very, very long and that we are no longer linked, precisely, to this biological beauty that was the diktat of the time, and that gives a lot of freedom. And being an icon is very dangerous, in a way, because you’re fixated on something that’s immutable. I want to be an actress, only an actress, who changes in life and who also changes on screen.”
“The passage of time forces us to think about illness, death, all the things that scare us. And at the same time, the passage of time also makes you become an adult woman, and then age. It also means that you have the chance to stay alive and to live with it… Today, when I look at the elderly, I say to myself: what is behind their eyes? What do they know that I don’t know? Because I’m sure there’s a way to look at life when the physical is no longer part of all this that takes on another dimension and it’s something that I want to discover”, she adds.