asia argento,,,,,,by alan jones

http://odetoazia.com/info/bio.php



My father and mother never read me fairytales to put me to sleep at night or ever sung lullabies. I used to get my nose pushed in books on art and culture instead. That gave me the desire to read voraciously though so it was ultimately a good thing.



But my unusual childhood did make me a strong character so I'm not complaining".



"I was nine and living with Daria and my half-sister Anna (from Nicolodi's previous relationship). I wanted to be a writer and wrote loads of weird poetry. I was convinced I was going to be a child prodigy in the literary arena.


B. Monkey was the first time I didn't think of acting as a stupid profession.


I chose hard work over sex. I didn't need that sort of distraction. I wanted to be on my own and take proper charge of my life.


"After all the depressing problems with B. Monkey, I almost lost interest in being an actress so I decided to write Scarlet Diva to save myself from death. I knew if I didn't write it, I would die creatively. I was obsessed and all I wanted to do was write this movie.


I'm not an ambitious actress, my ambition is to do whatever I choose to do well and not embarrass myself".

asia argento,,,,,,,,by caroline ryder

http://swindlemagazine.com/issueicons/asia-argento/



An introvert, she immersed herself in books as a way of making up for having virtually no friends. While the kids at her school were obsessing over Madonna and Duran Duran, Argento was crushing on Dostoyevsky and Baudelaire and watching the films of Roman Polanski. “Those were my youth idols,” she says. At age eight, she had already published a book of poems.



“I am not a princess; I am a worker. I don’t want my ass to be licked. Maybe that’s why I do a million other things. Acting is not hard – that’s a lie that many actors tell. They feel embarrassed to be appreciated for something that isn’t very hard. So they can become spoiled brats. I fell into this trap for a while myself.”


the teenage Asia, who shaved her head and wore boyish clothes, spent much of her time convinced she was not much better looking than one of the corpses in her father’s movies. “I was the ugly one,” she says, “the weirdo, the geek, the freak.”




“I was very young when I started being naked in front of people – 21 or so,” she says. “From being someone who only cared about studying and reading all these books and then all of a sudden being the sultry bitch from hell, it was funny to me. Being a sex queen was funny. Today, I see it as my insecurity and my fragility manifesting itself. But at the time I thought, ‘This is the real power – look at my pussy.’”

asia argento...interiew

http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/asia_argento.shtml



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]