"I love Tim Burton, it's one of those encounters that rarely happens in a lifetime," said Monica Bellucci.

 

She extends a warm welcome to us at her home, which has a large poster of "La Dolce Vita" in French writing, which means "the sweetness of life." In fact, we enjoy being around him and the amusing black cat with the three legs that wander about the space. Paris has changed into her summer attire, and Monica appears to have awoken from a dream. She is as lovely as she was described as being, and compassionate. Loved one? Additionally... Flying fine, eschewing any labels—including those that her job as a top model would have forced upon her—the actress asserts herself from movie to movie, poised and unafraid. A few days before the publication of a remastered edition of "Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra," in which she portrays a memorable queen of Egypt, and on the eve of her departure for London, where she joined the filming of Tim Burton's new "Beetlejuice," she talks to us about her many incarnations.