Isabella Rossellini she has been on 38 covers of Italian Vogue. The first was when she was 27. Her latest, for this year’s October issue, at the age of 71, is perhaps the most beautiful of all, as she poses beautifully, without retouching or filters. And not only was she photographed, but she talked about her famous parents, the moment she fell in love with cinema, and her need to show her true self.

She understood that her parents were stars from a very young age, but she did not understand the extent of their fame. After all, how could a child understand that the people he saw every day at home were, for the world, the famous Roberto Rossellini and the wonderful Ingrid Bergman? In kindergarten she had a friend who told her about their success. “I remember asking, ‘Is my dad more famous than Fellini?’ Is my mom like Greta Garbo?”’ he explained.

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He fell in love with cinema in 1961 when he saw 101 Dalmatians. “I was 9 years old and I already loved animals. I saw it twice in a row,” he said. “I was enchanted, maybe because I had experienced the feeling that cinema gives you, the one where you enter another world.”

A famous model and actress, she always wanted to be extraordinary. He has worked with the greatest fashion photographers, whom he considers artists. One, in fact, was the one who pushed her to follow the path of acting. “Richard Avedon told me: ‘The model is like an actor in a silent film. He has no words, but he must express a feeling.” And so, I managed to understand the modeling profession. Then she gave me the actress bug. “You are already a silent actor. Now you just have to start talking.”

On beauty and youth, Isabella Rossellini says characteristically: “I think that looking younger than my age diminishes me a lot. It’s a losing battle, anyway. I asked Vogue Italia not to retouch the photos and leave me with my wrinkles. Some will like it, others won’t…”

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