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Metaphorically Speaking - April 1997By Michael Atkinson Pale, waifish, fearless and 21, Asia Argento is so popular in Italy that last year she was voted the country's most desirable actress. "It's so absurd to me - it is! - because when I was little everybody used to tell me I was really ugly, and I was. Some actors, some very stupid actors, believe that the uglier they look, the better they are as an actor. I used to believe in that, too - so I don't know how they got the 'sexy' out of that. I still think I'm pretty ugly." Argento is all but virgin soil for American audiences - we've seen her only as the unfortunate young baroness who gets poisoned in Queen Margot and as the pubescent heroine in her father Dario Argento's straight-to-tape snooze Trauma. ("That was the most unhappy film I ever made. I wasn't very sure of myself, so I don't think anything I did was very good.") But Argento's been acting since she was nine, and the upcoming B.Monkey, from The Postman director Michael Radford, in which she plays a graffiti artist-turned-bourgeois, will be her 20th. "This girl reaches a point, which we all do, maybe, where she must decide whether to be a mad fuck for the rest of her life or a normal person. She doesn't want to be a mad fuck, y'know, a romantic hero, because if you're a romantic hero like, I don't know, Marlon Brando, either you're going to die and that's when people really love you, or you're going to become fat and disgusting, and people are just waiting for you to die."
Heiress to a long if not all that honorable family legacy in Italian movies, Argento is strictly love/hate about this film career thing. "I never wanted to be an actress - I always wanted to be a writer. But I'm not Dostoievsky, y'know? So that's why I'm an actress. It's like being a violin - if you're a good violin and it's a good guy playing you, then it's going to be fine. If you're a good violin and somebody bad is playing you, that's not that good. If you're a bad violin and somebody good is playing you, then maybe you have a chance, I don't know. Michael said I'm a Stradivarius, but I… don't agree."
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