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Isabella Rossellini Refutes Roger Ebert’s Claim That David Lynch ‘Exploited Me’ in ‘Blue Velvet’: ‘I Was an Adult. I Chose to Play the Character’
Isabella Rossellini remembers Roger Ebert's infamous one-star review of David Lynch's "Blue Velvet."
Rossellini stars in “Blue Velvet” as the tormented nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens, who is held emotionally and physically captive by the sociopath gangster Frank Booth (Denis Hopper). At one point in the film, Dorothy shows up naked on the front porch of Jeffrey Beaumont’s (Kyle MacLachlan) home completely disoriented and saying, “He put his disease in me.” In the classic, she plays nightclub lounge singer Dorothy Vallens, held psychically and physically captive by Dennis Hopper’s nitrous-huffing, psychopathic gangster Frank Booth.
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