Thursday, January 21, 2021

Quote of the Day


"When I was 22, I came to Rome without a penny. And I was helping a photographer, and one day a friend of his who was a photographer from De Laurentiis studios asked to take close-ups of me. Those photos ended up on the desk of John Huston. He asked me to meet him in this hotel […] and he looks at me and says, ‘Now undress!’ He wanted to see my body because I was playing Abel (in the Bible) and he needed to see. He looked at me very carefully and then said I could go."

Oh what a delightful surprise for a Thursday -- the website Little White Lies has a new chat with the actor and eternally gorgeous movie legend Franco Nero up where he talks about his 60-plus year career, including that beautiful and precious nugget of information there about its auspicious beginnings, and... I didn't know you had it in you, John Huston. Nero also talks about working with Fassbinder on Querelle -- he says Rainer came up to him in a bar and told him he was going to be in his next three movies -- as well as Tarantino, I recommend checking it out sooner rather than not sooner!



4 comments:

John said...

That meeting in the hotel room sounded like it could have gone in a different direction. I have not seen Querelle but my old boss suggested it to me

Anonymous said...

I love him and his hairy body. Quiet Place in the Country!

Petey said...

Whoa...he kinda looks like Matt Bomer in that first photo

Mirko said...

Handsome actor and a real celebrity at least here in Italy. His career has been long and pretty cool even if not his films are as memorable as Querelle. Pity his other projects with Fassbinder couldn’t materialise for German director sudden death