She’s not ready ‘yet’ to show her greys - ‘Unless it was for work. What help does she get? ‘I have a very good hairdresser,’ she smirks. ‘I’ve nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence.’ And if you want plastic surgery and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. Her frankness about the ageing process would make Hollywood actresses squeamish: ‘Everybody does what she needs. Anyway the menopause is going to be great: no periods any more.’ I’m going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. ‘Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45.
The actress says her role models have made her feel positive about ageing She’s already decided to take ‘natural remedies’ (bioidentical hormones, derived from plants, which are said to mimic natural hormones more closely) rather than HRT. But after a few months, or one year, it’s going to be OK. ‘OK, the body at the beginning will get a bit mad. ‘But menopause is a natural thing, it is not a sickness,’ she says. She’s unfazed even by the menopause, ‘which I will start soon’. She even likes the props of age: ‘Glasses are so nice. It’s what’s inside that makes us beautiful on the outside.’ ‘I’ve had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I’m not scared about getting old. She says her role models have made her feel positive about ageing. She studied law at the University of Perugia before modelling and then acting. Mendes made her look older for the part of Lucia Sciarra, a grieving Mafia widow who wears 5in Louboutin heels to her husband’s funeral.īellucci, pictured with her co-star Daniel Craig, is frequently voted the most beautiful woman in the worldīellucci was an only child who grew up in Umbria. If it’s provocative, it’s not something I can control. In some respects it’s the sauciest role in the film - far more than that of Bond’s other love interest, Madeleine Swann, played by Lea Seydoux, 30. (‘This is what all Italian women wear to bed,’ she teases.) Her sex scene with Bond is, inevitably, steamy, after which she is left on the bed dressed in a burlesque corset and suspender belt. She’s like a statue of the Virgin Mary and someone who would have a screaming row with her lover in the street (probably wearing Dolce & Gabbana and no shoes). But she sits rod-backed, hands in lap as if in church. In person, she’s a tiny, voluptuous siren with a pronounced pout.
In her native Italy she is known simply as La Bellucci. Her oeuvre includes a PVC‑clad role in The Matrix movies, and Mary Magdalen in Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ. She’s frequently voted the most beautiful woman in the world. Maybe something will change for older women now for older actresses.’īut let’s be clear. ‘We’ve never seen this before - an older woman seducing Bond. ‘It’s really a new way to look at actresses and women in general,’ she says. And she’s grateful to director Sam Mendes. With the fuss that’s being made over her role in the new Bond film Spectre, you might think she’s 51 years older than Daniel Craig, 47, rather than a quite unremarkable four.īut Bellucci has declared the decision to cast her as a Bond girl as ‘a revolution’. Monica Bellucci keeps telling me that she’s in her 50s - ‘Actually 51 now’ - and it has that slightly tired, practised feel of someone who has had to remind people all day, every day.Īnd I can understand why. Loving life: Monica Bellucci, Spectre's Bond girl, in an advert for Dolce & Gabbana
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