Post by annabelleleigh on Sept 29, 2008 9:36:40 GMT -5
Much as many here fantasize about VDO I confess my sympathy's leaning toward Greta Scacchi. (I don't have to like an actor to admire his work.)
Here's the latest version of her painful romance -- part of a UK interview to promote a new film.
More about the relationship in the full article, including her claim that D'Onofrio's has failed to participate in parenting Leila, and the fact that the D'Onofrio-Scacchi relationship is "still very antagonistic." No kidding!
Boldfaces mine.
AL
P.S., BTW, Scacchi's father -- to whom she compares VDO (below) -- was a famous Italian painter. His name was Luca.
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Greta Scacchi: glad to be back
By Marie MacDonald
The Daily Telegraph
September 28, 2008
Except:
"Before I meet Greta Scacchi, I have a mental image of her strolling along a beach in deck shoes in a film I saw 20 years ago. I can't even remember its name - but I vividly remember how she exemplified careless beauty and sexiness for me at the time. 'Ah, one of the all-time hotties,' my friend sighs when I mention her. Now, sitting in the library of a smart hotel in London, I'm told that Scacchi has arrived for our interview - the actress is appearing in the new film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. First I hear her, apologising to her PR in a precise, definite voice for being late, and then she appears in the doorway.
Greta Scacchi: 'I just hated everything I was doing, I just hated myself. But over the years I started to swallow that allergy to myself'
It's quite a shock: the blonde hair is now dark brown, and a lot shorter. She is a middle-aged woman. She is wearing a blue Whistles jumper and not a scrap of make-up. But it's all still there, albeit without the taut skin of youth: the peculiarly sweet mouth, the mesmerising blue eyes with the delicious bags underneath and the somehow perfectly put-together face and teeth.
'Do you know,' Scacchi says, setting her hands squarely on her denim knees, 'I don't normally drink coffee, but I'd love a coffee. An Americano. Long and black. I wouldn't normally, but it's all too… much.' And her mouth forms that familiar, dazzlingly smile that made her such an idol in Heat and Dust and White Mischief.
Her role as Cara, the mistress of Lord Marchmain, alongside Ben Whishaw as Sebastian Flyte, Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder and Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte, is part of what looks like a career resurgence after years away from the public eye. She recently starred as Hester Collyer in a West End production of Terence Rattigan's 1952 drama The Deep Blue Sea and received some of the best reviews of her career...
...The gap began in 1991, the year she met and married her now ex-husband, Vincent D'Onofrio. She was 30, he was a 32-year-old Italian-American actor whom she'd encountered on the set of the film Fires Within. 'He was Adam to my Eve - it was as if we shared the same skin,' she has said of their romance. But it was a tempestuous relationship. He was insecure, with a 'titanic ego just like my father, and he did to me exactly what my father did to my mother'. She left him twice before the wedding. He begged and wept until she returned; but, in the end, he was the one who left her, six months after their daughter was born. He then told the story of their sex life in lurid detail, while she bought herself a farm cottage near Hurstpierpoint, in West Sussex, where she still lives, and hid. She didn't answer the phone for four years in case it was him. (Years later she saw a healer who said, 'Oh, my poor darling, I think he must have killed you in another life.') She has called it a time of 'total wretchedness, like a constant groan. It was like having no skin'. She barely worked, though they should have been her golden years as an actress; she had too little confidence to go to London to parties. Occasionally, at breaking point, she would call her brother and tell him he had to come round before she threw the baby from the window. She sobbed to her agent's secretary on the phone that she was hideous. 'I've got a magazine saying you're one of the 10 most beautiful women in the world,' the woman replied...."
www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/28/st_gretascacci.xml&page=2
Here's the latest version of her painful romance -- part of a UK interview to promote a new film.
More about the relationship in the full article, including her claim that D'Onofrio's has failed to participate in parenting Leila, and the fact that the D'Onofrio-Scacchi relationship is "still very antagonistic." No kidding!
Boldfaces mine.
AL
P.S., BTW, Scacchi's father -- to whom she compares VDO (below) -- was a famous Italian painter. His name was Luca.
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Greta Scacchi: glad to be back
By Marie MacDonald
The Daily Telegraph
September 28, 2008
Except:
"Before I meet Greta Scacchi, I have a mental image of her strolling along a beach in deck shoes in a film I saw 20 years ago. I can't even remember its name - but I vividly remember how she exemplified careless beauty and sexiness for me at the time. 'Ah, one of the all-time hotties,' my friend sighs when I mention her. Now, sitting in the library of a smart hotel in London, I'm told that Scacchi has arrived for our interview - the actress is appearing in the new film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. First I hear her, apologising to her PR in a precise, definite voice for being late, and then she appears in the doorway.
Greta Scacchi: 'I just hated everything I was doing, I just hated myself. But over the years I started to swallow that allergy to myself'
It's quite a shock: the blonde hair is now dark brown, and a lot shorter. She is a middle-aged woman. She is wearing a blue Whistles jumper and not a scrap of make-up. But it's all still there, albeit without the taut skin of youth: the peculiarly sweet mouth, the mesmerising blue eyes with the delicious bags underneath and the somehow perfectly put-together face and teeth.
'Do you know,' Scacchi says, setting her hands squarely on her denim knees, 'I don't normally drink coffee, but I'd love a coffee. An Americano. Long and black. I wouldn't normally, but it's all too… much.' And her mouth forms that familiar, dazzlingly smile that made her such an idol in Heat and Dust and White Mischief.
Her role as Cara, the mistress of Lord Marchmain, alongside Ben Whishaw as Sebastian Flyte, Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder and Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte, is part of what looks like a career resurgence after years away from the public eye. She recently starred as Hester Collyer in a West End production of Terence Rattigan's 1952 drama The Deep Blue Sea and received some of the best reviews of her career...
...The gap began in 1991, the year she met and married her now ex-husband, Vincent D'Onofrio. She was 30, he was a 32-year-old Italian-American actor whom she'd encountered on the set of the film Fires Within. 'He was Adam to my Eve - it was as if we shared the same skin,' she has said of their romance. But it was a tempestuous relationship. He was insecure, with a 'titanic ego just like my father, and he did to me exactly what my father did to my mother'. She left him twice before the wedding. He begged and wept until she returned; but, in the end, he was the one who left her, six months after their daughter was born. He then told the story of their sex life in lurid detail, while she bought herself a farm cottage near Hurstpierpoint, in West Sussex, where she still lives, and hid. She didn't answer the phone for four years in case it was him. (Years later she saw a healer who said, 'Oh, my poor darling, I think he must have killed you in another life.') She has called it a time of 'total wretchedness, like a constant groan. It was like having no skin'. She barely worked, though they should have been her golden years as an actress; she had too little confidence to go to London to parties. Occasionally, at breaking point, she would call her brother and tell him he had to come round before she threw the baby from the window. She sobbed to her agent's secretary on the phone that she was hideous. 'I've got a magazine saying you're one of the 10 most beautiful women in the world,' the woman replied...."
www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/28/st_gretascacci.xml&page=2