About the only rebellion left for Asia Argento was blissful, normal domesticity– the final frontier for an actress whose early career included starring roles in three of father Dario Argento’s horror movies.”My latest vice? Learning to cook risotto,’ quipped Italy’s favorite bad girl, 26, who is expecting her first child in June 2001 from singer Morgan of techno-band Bluvertigo. Asia was followed tolerantly in the Italian press through her various tattoos, dark-lady costumes and ambiguous relationships–facets of the public persona of an actress, screenwriter and director of some talent who has worked with Abel Ferrara, Cristina Comencini and Carlo Verdone.That is, until Asia announced she was to become a mamma–and the papers filled with disapproving reports about her climbing a rumbling Mt. Etna, a hit & run car accident and TV appearances with an ‘overexposed’ pregnant tummy. “As a pregnant woman in the public eye I truly feel like a freak, for the first time in my life,” she told newsweekly L’Espresso. “Fault or merit of Italian men who think pregnant women should be recluses.”Her remark was a response to outrage expressed by one of Italy’s reigning grandfathers of journalism, Enzo Biagi, who called her behavior “obscene” for a woman expecting a child. We expect she’ll keep pushing boundaries—as an actress or as a mother.
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Asia On Film
Stendhal Syndrome
Asia plays a somewhat unconvincing detective who becomes a victim of the rapist she’s investigating.
The last film she was directed in by father Dario.
La palombella Rossa
Offbeat comedy–starring Nanni Moretti as a politician/water polo player. This time Asia isn’t directed by her father, but she plays the director’s daughter just the same.
A photo gallery, with 75 of her former incarnations.
Bluvertigo-official site for the her beau’s band–think angst-ridden Devo, in Italian..
Check out their latest effort "Assenzio" which had the dubious honor of last place at the San Remo songfest.