'I was 31 or 32. I chose to play the character,' Rossellini said of the controversial David Lynch film
Considering the constant stream of actresses speaking out about the ways they were made to feel uncomfortable and exploited by male directors during past shoots, it’s nice to hear at least one account where the feeling went the other way. In a recent interview, Isabella Rossellini opened up about the response to her breakout role in the controversial 1986 film Blue Velvet—directed by her then-partner David Lynch—in which she plays a lounge singer held captive by a psychopathic gangster.
Rossellini, however, thinks we should also allow space to question the “rigidity of if you make a film about a woman, it has to be a woman .” “First of all, Blue Velvet is also about men, so who’s going to make the film?” she continued. “If you make a film about the aliens, they have to have aliens direct? It doesn’t make any sense.” Even though Rossellini and Lynch are no longer together, she also had a lot of kind words for her former director.
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