By T.H.
Published
December 20 at 7:00 p.m.,
updated December 20 at 7:08 p.m.
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On the cover of the magazine's special holiday issue ELLE this week, the Italian actress talks about her daughters and is pleased to have had them late, to better take care of them at the end of her rich film career.
“Madonna!” This is the cry from the heart that iconic actress Monica Bellucci utters when we tell her that she has appeared in more than 68 films to date. The most famous Italian of the big screen takes stock of her career in the special holiday issue of the magazine ELLE and, commenting on all the publications in which she has been highlighted, the 60-year-old actress cannot help but think of her two daughters (born from her union with Vincent Cassel) who borrow – in one way or another on the other – the same professional path as their mother.
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Léonie, the youngest of the Bellucci-Cassel siblings, who lives in Paris with her mother, is in fact assiduously preparing for her future at college. Already at 14, she expressed her “artistic sensitivity”, says Monica Bellucci. As for Deva, her eldest, she embraced a career as a model and actress very early on. “At 20, she is full of enthusiasm, but she has been working since the age of 16, she has taken the time to mature,” reports Monica Bellucci, who does not hide her pride. “She made her way slowly, she passed her baccalaureate, speaks five languages… I was not as professional as her at the time,” she admits.
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Counteract empty nest syndrome
Now geographically separated from her daughter Deva, who now works internationally, Monica Bellucci assures her: she is not a victim of empty nest syndrome, this shared feeling of abandonment and anxiety which invades parents the day the children go away. “I’m happy to see her passionate about what she does. And we meet up very often, in France or Italy, at my mother’s house, she says. I need to see her in the eyes and hold her in my arms, videos aren't enough! Of course, there is something nostalgic, when there are three of us, to find two of us at home.
In order not to lose sight of the flesh of her flesh, the actress explains that she made a big decision. “Fortunately, I had my daughters late, I decided to work less to take the time to see them grow,” she says. And conclude, with poetry: “Today, Deva is flying… And it’s beautiful when our children fly, isn’t it?”
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