We can add a new one to that lengthy list of interests, which is, as the presenter of what the Hollywood Reporter recently described, “the coolest university lecture you’ve ever seen.” She was poised and calm and altogether enjoyable.Īs Iyer said, “Some of us are lucky if we have two talents,” and then proceeded to list Rossellini’s impressive array of accomplishments and vocations, which include actor, model, filmmaker, animal behaviorist, philanthropist, and organic farmer, not to mention mother and grandmother. Rossellini truly is fascinating and charming and seemingly so genuinely delighted by life - despite the fact that she had a nightmare of a time getting to Santa Barbara for her first visit ever that day, arriving eight hours late after her plane diverted to Los Angeles. It was a surprising but happy development, Rossellini explained, as the new female head of the company finally realized (a few years ago) that “women can understand the pleasure of self-decorating, and it has nothing to do with age.”Īlso surprising and happily delightful was the evening we spent with Rossellini and the always-excellent interviewer Pico Iyer last week. Remember the Dos Equis beer campaign for “ The Most Interesting Man in the World”? I think Isabella Rossellini should step in and take that guy’s place as “The Most Interesting WOMAN in the World.” She’s already had an amazing career as a Lancôme spokeswoman, the skincare company she represented from age 30 to 42 before being fired because of her age, only to be rehired more than 20 years later.
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