Isabella Rossellini Career Retrospective | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Isabella Rossellini shares stories from her work on ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Death Becomes her’ and ‘Fearless’ in this conversation about her career. Moderated by Joe McGovern, The Wrap. This interview is part of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations series, an essential resource for actors, featuring leading actors and casts sharing their experiences, insights and craft.
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Fascinating as ever, Ms. Rossellini is an icon of graceful aging through authenticity.
This woman’s voice, beauty, and acting skills are iconic. Hollywood royalty, and a goddess. Her resume is amazing.
She is royalty. So classy. I could listen to her talk all day long
Such a beautiful, mentally healthy and independent woman.
Isabella is phenomenal in "The Conclave". Proud of her for preserving and promoting her Italian heritage.
This is a real actress, and you know it because it feels like transcending, giving you a full understanding of the process to create a character and tell a story!!!
This is such a great interview, she is endlessly engaging and real.
What a delightful person. She's much more than an actress. Such an interesting mind, and a compelling life!
Isabella shows all of us how rich life can be. Just look at how many different careers she has had over her lifetime. Then as a senior to go back for a Master's Degree, and now a farmer and scientist of animal behavior, making documentaries? What a fascinating person.
I just want to sit with her and listen to all her Hollywood stories -- you can tell she's lived an interesting life!
I had the privilege to briefly meet her in March 1999, in Marseille airport !! Earlier that day she was signing her book "Quelque chose de moi" (french edition of her book) at the Marseille FNAC, and I was not able to be there and I was sooooo sad to have missed her !! But later I suddenly saw her walking (with two persons if my memory serves me well, maybe her agent and an assistant or a friend don't know exactly) in the airport hall, in the middle, with around us all the people preparing for their flights or waiting for someone, who weren't paying attention to her !!!! I could not believe it !!! My cinema idol, a star, appearing like that !!! :)
So I ran to her and said I was a french fan (in english first but one of the ladies who were accompanying her reminded me she speaks french LOL), and she was very nice and smiling, and later, I met her again in the same place but just before she took her plane, so I took a piece of paper (actually first blank page of an Arthur Schnitzler collection book I had with me !) and asked her if she could sign it because "otherwise no one at home will believe me !" (remember at the time, there were no Smartphones, selfies etc. !!) She did sign it, and then she took her plane and not too long after that I took mine and it was MAGIC !!!! I will never forget that day, and I always kept that autograph, like a good luck charm !! MERCI Isabella Rossellini and God bless you :)
She looks and sounds like her mother. Adore it!
I am loving this interview so much! She is so inspiring and so fascinating.
Isabella connects with so many of us, because she was already an adult and wasn't relying on her parents' achievements. She was dynamic and interesting then as she is now. I never thought she used her obvious beauty throughout her career. The older she gets, she is even more intriguing. We should all be so blessed. Believe it are not, I haven't seen Blue Velvet yet. I will indulge.
A very insightful interview with the always delightful Isabella Rosellini
What a gracious, beautiful woman.
Some people are just fantastic interviews, they just need a prompt from the interviewer and they're off. Isabella Rossellini is one of those people, never tire of watching her interviews.
Fascinating to say the least.
Being thin is like being a saint. Love this woman
Amazing... Joyous... Thank you...
Not only timelessly beautiful and talented, but she also has the most wonderful "energy" about her! 💫⭐
such a moving interview. Thank You!
Thank you for a wonderful conversation with such a beautiful human being!
She is so delightful. ❤
Great interview. I have such a big crush on her in Blue Velvet, beautiful woman.
Wonderful interview. Just saw Isabella in "Conclave" and thought she gave a terrific, fascinating performance.
She seems to be a really lovely person..she laughs a lot and her body of work is so interesting..she was great as Joaquin Phoenixes mum in ‘Two Lovers’ and recently in La Chimera..after such an interesting life and background she’s so unaffected and likeable..
GREAT INTERVIEW, IT IS VERY REVEALING OF HER BACKGROUND AND GREAT TALENT!
...THANK YOU SO MUCH SAG-AFTRA FOUNDATION!!!
I love Isabella so much. Her Mother is one of my favorite actresses of all time and I forget that fact as Isabella has always stood on her own and has had a very interesting career all on her own.
Such a positive person!!!
magical
lovely woman hope she wins something for conclave
Love her!
I would love to have her wardrobe. I would love Isabella to be my friend.❤😊
Of course Blue Velvet is unforgettable. But her work in Peter Weir's Fearless is superb too... in a whole different direction. That film is so underrated.
Such an extraordinary women in every way
She was so funny as Jack's ex wife in 30 Rock! She was only in a couple of episodes in the first season but she really made the most of it!
Un grand merci!
Isabella does evoke great emotion. Because I believe we live many lifetimes, I would love to know of her past lives and if "The church" was part of her families "lineage"
pure lady!
Renaissance woman.
Delightful❤
Che persona bellissima..da dentro
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I don’t know why she reminds me of Eckhart Tolle :) Maybe it’s something in her mimicry, or her kind sense of humor - or just her shining presence… :) Anyway, she is amazing!
'Now a warning?!'
...good
42:00 Catherine Bell was her nude double in Death Becomes Her.
what outfit is Isabella wearing. What brand
Really? The interviewer's first greeting is "Welcome to SAG"?!😅
She really is grounded. Having ingrid bergman as your mother. But her own choices are amazing. Grounded funny and very open and not egotistical. Her mother comes off that way in interviews
I had the pleasure of meeting her at a caterwaiting event. She is so nice and engaging