Being Isabella Rossellini |
She may be global-cinema royalty, her parents being the Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini and the Swedish star Ingrid Bergman, but Isabella Rossellini sat down with VF’s David Canfield for a long, deep conversation, and she was an unfiltered, warmhearted riot. Technically, the interview was about her small but pivotal role in Conclave, an Oscar contender set in the Vatican and focused on a bunch of cardinals lying, backstabbing, and strategizing to become the next pope after the incumbent suddenly—and mysteriously—dies. But Rossellini also gossiped and reminisced with a wide, almost innocent smile and a belly laugh. You sense that her joy has a lot to do with her 28-acre Long Island farm, the new site of her day-to-day world—and a nice metaphor for a long life of defying conventional Hollywood wisdom. “I want to eat at the end of my life. I’ll say that, whatever I did in my life, I wasn’t thin,” she said. “I can’t be—I have a farm. I’ve got to eat.” |
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