Friday, October 30, 2026

What are some interesting facts about Monica Bellucci?

 

1 - She met her ex-husband Vincent Cassel on the set of the French film "The Apartment." She also starred with Cassel in the film "Irréversible." Monica married Vincent in August 1999 in Monte Carlo. They had two children, Deva and Leonie. The couple separated in 2013.

2 - Cassel, however, was not her first husband. Bellucci had married Franco-Argentine photographer Claudio Carlos Basso on January 3, 1990, also in Monte Carlo, and divorced him on June 25, 1994.

3- Monica was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the category of Best Kiss , the one given to Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix Reloaded". Reeves also got the nomination.

4 - On the occasion of her 50th birthday, Mario Pelle Ceravolo, president of the Italian Association of Plastic Surgery, stated: "Monica Bellucci is an image that unites the sacred and the profane: an intriguing gaze, combined with an oval face that resembles that of a Pre-Raphaelite Madonna ."

5 - His first cover was on Amica, in 1987.

6- His favorite poem is "To Silvia" by Giacomo Leopardi.

7- About beauty, he says this: I think like Oscar Wilde, according to whom “Beauty always attracts attention. But this only lasts 5 minutes if there is nothing else to keep it alive.”