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True confessions between strangers
Italian movie actress and diva Sophia Loren stars in son's Edoardo Ponti's first feature film
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2002-10-06
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Sophia Loren
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At 68 she is stunning. As she stands to shake my hand, this scribe can't help notice those long, tanned firm legs beneath a tasteful black mini-skirt. As she sits, her ample bosom rises effortlessly defying that dreaded gravity. There's no question that Sophia Loren is a diva, and deservedly so.
The Oscar-winning actress (Two Women) is currently starring in Between Strangers, her 100th film, and the first directed by her youngest son, Edoardo Ponti. The film centres on three women who come to terms with their pasts in order to move ahead with their futures. Loren plays Olivia, who's married to a paraplegic sportsman (Pete Postlethwaite), a former world class runner who constantly puts her down. Catherine, a world-class cellist (Deborah Kara Unger) is obsessed with revenge towards her father Alan (Malcolm McDowell) for ruining her mother's life and crushing her hopes as a child. Natalia (Mira Sorvino) follows the footsteps of her father Alexander (Klaus Maria Brandauer) into international photojournalism, but after doing a cover photo of a child later killed in Angola, she begins to re-evaluate her career.
Tandem talked to Sophia Loren when she was in Toronto recently.
How was being told what to do by your son?
"Well, he didn't tell me what to do because these kind of discussions, we didn't have them on the set. That happened in the trailer, because we used to repeat the scene in the trailer, and then we would discuss the scene, what he wanted and why. And then sometimes we agreed and sometimes I said no... sometimes but not very often I must say. Because he wrote the characters so he knew exactly what he wanted from the character. He was always very precise, very precise."
Did you feel a different obligation towards him than working with another director?
"I felt more responsible because I wanted my son to do a good job, I wanted my son to have a good film. So I felt much more intrigued, and very much in it. Although when I make a film I'm very much in it because I'm very conscientious and I like work. I get passionate about what I do. In this particular film I was a little more."
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