Isabella Rossellini Lightning Round

From "Blue Velvet" and "Death Becomes Her" to this year’s "Conclave," choosing a favorite Isabella Rossellini film is no easy task. But which film does she love most? Find out on this week’s bonus episode of "Table for Two," in which the actress joins host Bruce Bozzi to discuss her go-to wine, her preferred Italian curse word, and the best advice she’s ever received.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, it's Bruce.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Thanks for pulling up a chair for another bonus episode
of Table for two.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Today, we have something a little different for you.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Usually we share a meal with our guests at a
wonderful restaurant, but for the next couple of weeks, we'll
be hearing this interview I conducted with Isabella Rossellini at
her beautiful farm.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I hope you enjoy our little lightning round and we'll
be back next Tuesday with our full conversation.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
We're gonna do a little quick, little speed round.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
This is a fun lightning round where I say something
and you kind of give me the first pop word
that comes in.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, So your favorite pasta dish?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
You know, the simple one? Oh no, my father one,
I should say my father. It's a past edition that
my father did. Pasta regular spaghetti. You put a little
lemon zest, and then you all the herbs you can
find in your garden, parsially, basil, oregano. You chop it
up and you put it there with sometimes even a

(01:09):
little bit of tomatoes, olive oil, and salt. It's so good, good, simple,
it's so good. It's a summary.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, Okay, I love that your most cherished possession.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Well, I would say my dog, but I don't really
possess him, but I would say my dog.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, I love it. The best advice you have received, I.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Think the best advice that I have received. It was
to follow my curiosity, and advice I also give. And
it was given to me by a great Italian war
journalist called Orianna Falacci, who was a very good friend
of mine. It was a fantastic writer, and she followed
her curiosity and she said to me, everything passes. At

(01:52):
the time, it was a famous model the beauty by
your curiosity. If you follow your curiosity, you'll be happy.
And she was right.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
That is lovely, it is, and she is right, And
that's not always easy.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
That's interesting because you know, we have we want to
be perceived in a certain way, we want to be accepted.
But forget all that and just say what is interesting
to me? And sometimes you know, for me, I mean animals.
I mean people say it's childish, but it isn't childish.
If you're anathologist, it isn't childish. But at the beginning

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it looks like what am I doing? I mean, it's
a childish law. I should like theater.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Shakespeare, your favorite movie.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
My favorite movie The Circus by Charlie Chaplin.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
The Circus, so it's.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
A silent film, which I love. I love silent films,
and I'm so sorry that the progress in technology killed
silent because in silent film even more you relied on images.
And I think film is a is an visual art.
When you have words, it becomes you know, we've seen

(03:03):
film talky talky talky, they are boring. So film is
a visual art. And because they didn't have words, silent
film really had to be powerfully visual and also pantomime
the way of acting. And I'm saying sometimes it looks
exaggerated from us, but if you look at Charlie Chaplin,

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it isn't exaggerated, but it's yet pantomime, and that art
has died. And then I'm so sorry. So I'm a
huge fan of silent movie. I'm a huge fan of
Charlie Chaplin and The Circus. I mean, it's all about
animals and Jacklin at all.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I mean, that's the thing. When you think of blue Velvet,
what's the first.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I think of David. I think of David Lynch, and
he's a lovely.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Man, yeah, I mean it really is. It was a
pivotal movie. It just was very pivotal.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Favorite wine, favorite wine. I know that I have a favorite.
I drink very little sometimes, yeah, sometimes I prosecco bubbles
you reli in. Yeah, I would saying a prosecco, but
I can't think of a brand. But I do like prosecco.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know, oh curse word in Italian ston stone, piece
of ship.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Ah, I just learned something great stones stons of s
t r U and zo.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, I'm going to use that. And you've spoken about her,
But when you think of mama, do.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
You have a When I think of my mama, yeah, yeah,
Well I think that she smells so good and she
felt so good when she embraced me. She was so soft.
Mama was the most charming person I met you.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I think I know the answer to this. What
brings you joy?

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, my phone brings me a lot of joy. You
suspect it, I said, my children, of course, my animals.
But we all live here and so a mama family
has become a catalyst for all of us to come.
And there is something magical in this place that I
don't know if I brought it. I mean, there's so
many the women. I saw the land, I felt that magic,
So maybe it has always been here.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
I love that you created because people we lost that
where your whole family lives together, like where you're you
know that something that has gone away.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
It's gone away. It really it's really hard. It's really
hard when you have children that you have to raise
your own children and you don't have that the aunt
and grandmother, the consents, and we're trying to maybe at
least less of that so I can bring my Italian culture.
It's not that I am an Italian mama. On top
of make sure they have their own home, they have

(05:48):
their own life. But for sure, it's so easy. You know,
if somebody has a cold, you're called, can you come
take the baby for two hours? So I've taken nap.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah easy, It's very special. Thank you for pulling up
a shair. Thank you for having lunch with me.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Thank you so much. Thank you for every you've lunch
with My vegetable.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Vegetables are amazing, and I mean.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
We have a fantastic lady. She was a chet in
around forty five, she decided to become a grower. He
was fatty gentry and she I call it a Picasso
of the vegetable because she's so sophisticated, she really grows
the best vegetables taste, you know, sensitivity to.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Its delicious. Thank you for pulling up a chair.

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Speaker 2 (06:47):
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