A “courageous” single mother who never thought about abortion: “My mother asked me: even if abortion was illegal in Italy, abroad it could be done easily. Even my film agent of that period. he advised, because I had to make a movie Should I have had an abortion to make a movie?
Absolutely no!
So I decided to carry the pregnancy to term, otherwise the Lord would have told me “pussa away!” …
and Naike was born. “
The beginning of his career at just 14 years old, when, accompanying
his sister Claudia
at an audition, she was chosen in her place, just by
Damiano Damiani
: “I was chosen precisely because I was the age of the character”, adds the actress, who retraces the most significant stages of her life.
“It was Damiani who made me change my name,
from Francesca Rivelli to Ornella Muti,
a combination that refers to two works by Gabriele D’Annunzio: Ornella della Figlia di Iorio and Elena Muti del Piacere. But I never liked it. Moreover, from time to time on certain sets someone, in the early days, made fun of me, playing on Muti the suit … oh well, the wickedness never fails … there can be … “.
The actress, who returned to the theater with the show
“My wife Penelope
“, freely taken from the book” Itaca per semper “by
Luigi Malerba,
she also talks about how her beauty has distinguished her professional career, for better or for worse: “Beauty has brought me forward, opening up many paths, impossible to deny it, but it has also penalized me, because prejudice exists: they think you are beautiful and not good, so you have to put in triple the effort to prove that it is not. Sometimes I admit that I have had the feeling that some directors have used me only for the physical aspect without worrying about my artistic abilities. “
And speaking of
beauty and the passing years
(she turned 67 on March 9) Muti adds: “The existential journey is a parable and you need to get over it. Obviously I try to support myself, I do facial yoga, I respect a serious diet, but it is not easy to keep up with time. I confess, sometimes I don’t like myself, I’m very demanding with myself, but this is what I am and I can’t do anything about it … “. And she clears the cosmetic surgery: “Let’s calm down, and who cares if you have retouched … The important thing is to sow the affections well”.
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