Being an icon like Anita Ekberg is
dangerous, Monica Bellucci said at the Turin Film Festival
Tuesday where she is due to present the documentary The Girl in
the Fountain in which she plays a Mediterranean beauty called to
play the Swedish actress remembered for her iconic dip in the
Trevi Fountain with Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini's
La Dolce Vita.
"Being an icon like Anita Ekberg is dangerous, they put you in a
glass case and you don't come out again," said the 57-year-old
Umbrian screen siren.
"Today it isn't like that any more, there's real life to be
lived and an actress can calmly say: 'I'm no longer 20, 30, 50,
or even 50".
Bellucci, who became the oldest Bond girl ever in Spectre in
2015, said the documentary told "the bittersweet story of a star
who lived at the wrong time."
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