He can't do anything, because he's too young, too powerless.īut through her, he discovers love, sexuality, sensuality and the world of women. They didn't know the difference, so they were really dangerous."īut perhaps most challenging was working with 16-year-old newcomer Giuseppe Sulfaro, who plays her 12-year-old distant admirer and quiet champion, Renato.Īs Bellucci explains, "Malena is confronted with this male-dominated society where men desire her as an animal, where she's completely objectified - except for a young boy who's in love with her, and he wants to protect her from the terrible things that happen to her during and after the war. But a lot of them, they were just banging on me. We spent five days shooting that scene - can you imagine five days like that? Three or four of the women were actresses, so they knew the difference between fake and real. Can you imagine, she was ready to marry a man who raped her, because without a man, she doesn't exist?" She doesn't have any identity without a man. "Me and Malena, we are completely different," the actress says at Caesar's Den, the latest stop in a weeks-long promotion tour for the film, opening today at the Charles. But as she sits down for lunch in Little Italy, her brown eyes and raven hair attracting occasional furtive glances from fellow diners, Bellucci wants one thing understood: She's nothing like Malena Scordia, the unforced beauty and unwitting temptress she portrays in director Giuseppe Tornatore's "Malena." (That's her, naked and strategically covered with Russian caviar, on the cover of this month's Esquire).
Monica Bellucci is many things: a world-class model determined to become a world-class actress, a one-time law student, a native of Italy who works mostly in France and speaks near-fluent English, a head-turner whose face has stared out from magazine covers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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