Barbara Bouchet has turned 80. And she is looking forward to celebrating her 80th birthday in September in Milan, where her son Alessandro's restaurant is located. In an interview with The press talks today about her life and career. Starting with her husband, with whom she stayed until the end: “He had something very important to me: the ability to make me laugh. In 32 years, I was never bored.” Then an anecdote about her career: “In 1964, during the filming of The Two Seducers, at one point I complained: “Who has that nauseating perfume?” “Me,” replied a boy, all embarrassed. It was only later that I discovered that it was Marlon Brando.”
The marriage proposal
She explains why she didn't accept Omar Sharif's marriage proposal: “He was full of fantasy. In our house in Paris, he didn't want pictures or shelves, while I grew up in a house with walls full of everything. I said, 'Do you really want us to live in a hospital?' And then he was always away, just me with his daughter and him partying at the casino. It wouldn't have worked.” And he once handcuffed Warren Beatty: “We were at a party and I pointed at him because he was handsome. I took a pair of handcuffs from the windowsill in the living room, reached over, tightened them on his wrists and said, 'You're mine.' I spent the whole evening carrying him around like that, like a trophy.” And on harassment like that denounced by #metoo: “Of course I suffered it! But I'm not going to resurrect them twenty years later.”
Nude scenes
He also explains why he never suffered from nude scenes: “In the family, we were six children, we all lived in the same room and we didn't have a bathroom. That made us free and open, we didn't even know what modesty was.” Finally, his memory of Quentin Tarantino, who had invited him in 2004 to the Venice Film Festival: “He really wanted me. He told the director Marco Müller that if I hadn't come, he wouldn't have come either. When I arrived at the Lido, I found myself in front of a swarm of flashes and bows from people who previously wouldn't have even greeted me. Suddenly, everyone was treating me like Liz Taylor. During the screening, Quentin kept looking at me instead of looking at the screen. He kept mumbling: 'I can't believe it!'”
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