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Prevue Magazine - xXx's Asia Argento - 2002By Ana Claudia Paixao Children do what they can to gain their parents’ attention when they feel like it. Very few can do what Italian actress Asia Argento did. “There was this director who was a Pasolini assistant that really wanted me to be in this movie when I was five. My parents didn’t want me to," Argento explains matter of factly. "I thought, ‘Maybe this is a good way to get my parents’ attention.' I started working and then it was fun and I could be with grown-ups. I didn’t like being a child very much. I like to be responsible, so I understood that was a way." After showing that sort of determination at an early age it shouldn’t surprise anyone that at 27 she already has an extensive film career and has even tried her hand behind the camera. Daughter of actress Daria Nicolodi and famous Italian director Dario Argento, Asia remains surprisingly humble about her acting, considering just a piece of the creative world that interests her. “I was never ambitious. Sometimes I still think I’m not very ambitious as an actress. I want to be creative in many ways, not just as an actress.” Asia, whose first name is pronounced Ah-see-ah, is in fact registered as Aria, because the name her parents chose wasn’t allowed by Italian law. She was first noticed by American audiences in the French production of Queen Margot, but her major inspiration remains her father’s horror films. “I’ve done three of them. It’s strange because I started working when I was nine, hoping the he would cast me, to get his attention. He didn’t cast me until I was sixteen, so he waited for me to do ten films before he cast me. I was really disappointed. I thought he’d never cast me,” she reveals. “It’s strange, because when I see my father’s movies, I see the women in his movies before I was even born – they all look like me! That’s why I think that maybe he gave me birth, to have a lead in his movies.” Dario may have wanted her but, Asia has decided to move on to a career strictly on her own. She feels that it’s time to change. “I decided to cut the umbilical cord and watch his films rather than be in them.” For Asia, childhood was a period of struggle in which she constantly tried to join the adult world – a world she related too much better than the world of toys. “I didn’t like being a child, Asia notes. “I was a writer as a child and I published two books between the ages of five and eight. I started reading when I was four and I read Moby Dick when I was five. I love literature and wanted to write some. I started writing some haiku poems -- which were really not so bad reading them today -- so they were published. For me, I had to do these things to prove to the world that I was not a child, that I had a lot of things in my brain.”
Today, Asia is married to a musician and together they have a one-year-old daughter, Anna Lou. Motherhood has changed her life, giving her a more positive outlook on the world.
At what age will she expose her daughter to the works of her famous grandfather? “My father showed them to me when I was five. I don’t know if I want to show her movies when she’s that young.” These days, Asia Argento is starring alongside Van Diesel in XXX, which turns to be her first major American production. Landing a lead is quite rare for a foreign actress, even if she’s known throughout Europe. So she was surprised to have been picked by the film’s director, Rob Cohen. “I didn’t expect the acting to be so important in an action movie. He didn’t pick the more typical ‘Bond girl’ type. He chose a more interesting, different person,” she explains. In XXX, Vin Diesel plays a tattooed extreme-sport star turned super-spy, Asia’s got a few tattoos of her own. She’s got four tattoos, including an eye on her left shoulder, two snakes entwined around a sun on her lower back, a winged angel on her lower abdomen, and the name Anna over one of her ribs. The latter pays homage to her deceased sister. The success of XXX will clearly open many more doors for Asia, who notes that the thriller B. Monkey was the turning point that first turned her into a sexy starlet. “It was the first time I played a really feminine character. Before that I used to be a tomboy, so it changed me as a person. It changed me a lot and made me more feminine.” As for working with muscled hunk Vin Diesel, the job did have its pluses, including their on screen kiss.
“I enjoyed him, what can I say,” the sexy Italian actress admits with a sly grin. “When I kissed him, he’s a actually a really good kisser -- actually one of the best I ever kissed in my life, uh, in a movie I mean.”
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