Monica Bellucci and Her Story

by David, United States 

Monica Bellucci in black pantyhose in a sexy pose with a cleavage“After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects”

This is one of several insightful quotations attributed to Italian actress and model Monica Bellucci. Monica was born in 1964 in Citta di Castello, Umbria, right in the center of Italy. While attending the University of Perugia, located in the capital of Umbria, Monica began taking on modeling assignments to help pay for her schooling.

Soon her side job began to accelerate faster than her studies; she left college and moved to Milan in 1988 and signed with her first and current agency Elite model management. Monica started getting attention for her work on both sides of the Atlantic, her images were featured in Dolce & Gabbana, Men’s health, Maxim and French Elle.

Then, with some minor television roles in 1990, her modeling career transitioned into a more successful one in acting. “In 10 years I’ve done so many things. In the beginning I didn’t know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed. Now things are going better and better and the proposals I have are much more interesting than five years ago. It’s like getting older is getting better”, she told one interviewer. Movie credits include L’Appartement, Malena, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Irreversible, Tears of the Sun, The Matrix Reloaded, The Passion of the Christ, The Brothers Grimm, Don’t Look Back, and the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Monica Bellucci in pantyhoseUpon mentioning Monica to an associate, he gasped. After calming my friend down I asked him what was the cause of his strong reaction to my mention of such a beautiful woman. “It is because of Irreversible. I sat in the theater and watched her in a horrible, graphic rape scene that lasted eleven minutes….”  Indeed, “Irreversible” is a film so violent and cruel that most have found it unwatchable. It won the Stockholm International Film Festival award for best picture.” The final scene is presented in the beginning, and is an eleven minute long torturous public park rape scene…

Monica made this comment about the film to another reporter: “I’m not scared by nudity, because for me, nothing is more beautiful than a body. You can have such an amazing emotion from a body. In Irreversible (2002), I treated my body like it was an object and it’s great when you can have this kind of relation with your body, it’s a part of your job, an object you can work with. When you can have this kind of freedom it’s the moment where you can give your best as an actress”.

Monica Bellucci in pantyhose and leopard print shoes Monica Bellucci wearing a large hat and pantyhose

4 thoughts on “Monica Bellucci and Her Story

  1. Not sure I have seen MB in anything. To be honest I always thought she was French!
    I knew about the graphic rape scene in Irreversible and have never felt ready to watch that film because of it. Maybe will one day. I guess she is right about the whole body being an acting tool though. I saw Charlize Theron in Young Adult and there is a very pathetic pantyhose scene in that film. I think a person would have to be completely insensitive or dumb not to feel for the character in that scene. But then she is a complete bitch in the next scene. Films that play your emotions are great.

    • I’d say that the rape scene is very controversial. I personally can’t watch stuff like that, no matter if it is just acted out.

      One time I went to a movie where they were showing violence to kids in the beginning and I just walked out and asked for my money back. I can’t possibly support this kind of acting role given to a child.

      • Thank you Jessica, very proud of you. I wouldn’t want you or any other woman I know to do a rape seen even if just for a movie, or pretending thinking it was funny.

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