asia argento...interiew

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BRUCE [LA BRUCE]: Were you always different? I envision your childhood as sort of gothic, not quite normal.
ASIA: Well, it wasn’t normal in the sense that I was never happy. The horror wasn’t cinematic — it was in my head. I knew melancholy very well.


BRUCE: Don’t you ever enjoy the more transgressive scenes?
ASIA: They can certainly be freeing. In The Phantom Of The Opera, I lose my virginity in front of my father. It’s the Electra complex to the maximum!


BRUCE: Do you think of yourself as having a strong masculine side?
ASIA: Yes, much, much stronger than the feminine.


I don’t care about being in big films. I’d rather work two days on a TV show and live on the money for a year.


The thought of someone coming into my place and leaving their things was a nightmare to me. The idea of being obliged to talk to somebody — of having that level of intimacy — disgusted me.



the only person I want to spend time with is my boyfriend, Marco. He’s very peaceful and calm. He plays the piano, and I read, and he’s never intrusive. He’s a great person. It’s a miracle to me, because I’ve never even had friends that I would want to hang around with for longer than twenty-four hours.



I’m proud to be different, to be the monster.



BRUCE: You certainly capture that sensation in Scarlet Diva. Though you don’t show penetration, the sex scenes go way beyond acting.
ASIA: It’s true, the sex scenes are real. But I wasn’t interested in penetration — I was interested in showing what the real sex did to the faces and the bodies of the actors





I did, but I don’t remember much of my childhood. My memories begin at nine, when I started working. That’s when my life started to feel like my own.


My favorite thing about porno is that it’s real — I mean the sex is real. Porno moves me so much more than films like Gone With The Wind, because I am always reminded that these people on screen actually met, and this actually happened. No other kind of film can give you that feeling.


Abel [Ferrara] taught me a lot. He’s the most manipulative and crazy beast, of course.


Walken’s performance [in Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel] was brilliant. He was so completely out of his mind, so incredibly angry, that he couldn’t remember his lines. We always had to keep big sheets of paper tacked up with his words written on them. [laughs]