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Isabella Rossellini on Hollywood Ageism, Playing a Scene-Stealing Nun in ‘Conclave,’ and Becoming a Long Island Farmer
After Hollywood and modeling turned its back on her when she turned 40, Isabella Rossellini reinvented herself as a character actress and farmer.
Isabella Rossellini puts down her fork, straightens her back and shows me how she nailed a pivotal moment in her new movie, “ Conclave,” a Vatican-set thriller that unfolds a world away from her 28-acre Long Island farm where we’re having lunch. To convey her character’s torment, Rossellini held her arms by her side like wounded wings, mirroring the Nick Ut war photo of the burned Vietnamese girl, naked and wailing in agony after a napalm attack. And as she drives me through the town center and down a long, tree-lined driveway, the conversation moves seamlessly between her life as both a movie star and the daughter of film legends (her father was neorealist auteur Roberto Rossellini) and her current gig as a farmer.
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